Sunday Times Magazine (London)
September 18, 2005
Relative Values: Ved Mehta and His Daughter, Sage
Blind from the age of four, Ved Mehta, now 71, was born in India and educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities. He was a staff writer on The New Yorker magazine for over 30 years. His 25 books include classic accounts of modern India and studies of his family, as well as fiction. Three of his most recent books are The Red Letters, Dark Harbor, and Remembering Mr Shawn’s New Yorker. He lives in New York with his wife, Linn. They have two daughters, Sage, 20, and Natasha, 18. Sage is studying English at Princeton University.
