“Contrasts Continental Approach to Americans.” Student Life (Claremont, Calif.), 9 December 1952.
“Onapis One of 35 Great Exchanges This Year.” Student Life, 2 October 1953.
“The Jooti.” MSS (Claremont), Spring 1955.
“A Donkey in a World of Horses.” The Atlantic Monthly, July 1957.
“In Search of Sight.” The Atlantic Monthly, August 1957.
“Your Literary I.Q.” Saturday Review, 7 June 1958.
“Recording Section: Reading from Records.” Saturday Review, 26 July 1958.
“The English Connection.” Oxford Opinion (Oxford), Michaelmas 1958.
“Chamber of Horrors.” Overseas (London), 6 April 1959.
“A Hindu at Oxford.” The Atlantic Monthly, May 1959.
“Books: Insight Into the Sightless World.” Saturday Review, 22 August 1959.
“Democratic Education.” The Statesman (Calcutta), 6 September 1959.
“Return of a Native (I).” The Statesman, 27 September 1959.
“Return of a Native (II).” The Statesman, 4 October 1959.
“Return of a Native (III).” The Statesman, 11 October 1959.
“Return of a Native (IV).” The Statesman, 18 October 1959.
“Letter from America: DDT, Lopsided City and Hot Dogs Without Grass.” The Statesman, 2 November 1959.
“Letter from America: The Growth of Nonconformity in the U.S.A.” The Statesman, 1 December 1959.
“Books: Shadow of a Party.” Saturday Review, 9 January 1960.
“Letter from America: The Lost City.” The Statesman, 16 January 1960.
“Darkness Descended.” The New York Times Book Review, 21 January 1960.
“Letter from America: The Beat Generation.” The Statesman, 29 February 1960.
“A Reporter at Large: Homecoming.” The New Yorker, 7 May 1960.
“Before and After British Rule.” The Times Literary Supplement (London), 19 August 1960.
“The East in Darkness.” The Observer (London), 30 October 1960.
“Tea with Bertrand Russell.” The Statesman, 5 March 1961.
“Books: Indian Host.” Saturday Review, 11 March 1961.
“Books: The Rouÿ.” The New Yorker, 22 April 1961.
“Stones, Some Precious, from an Indian Treasury.” The New York Times Book Review, 14 May 1961.
“Books: An Indian Treasury, A Sop.” Time & Tide (London), 1 June 1961. Reprinted from The New York Times Book Review, 14 May 1961.
“Notes and Comment: On the Evening of Wednesday …” The New Yorker, 17 June 1961.
“Letters to the Editor” (reply). The New York Times Book Review, 18 June 1961.
“Gandhiism Is Not Easily Copied.” The New York Times Magazine, 9 July 1961.
“Notes and Comment: We Have Been Talking …” The New Yorker, 5 August 1961.
“The Talk of the Town: Medical Man.” The New Yorker, 26 August 1961.
“The Talk of the Town: Sitarist.” The New Yorker, 14 October 1961.
“The Talk of the Town: Deedle Dee.” The New Yorker, 4 November 1961.
“Days of the British Raj.” The New York Times Book Review, 5 November 1961.
“The Talk of the Town: Diplomat.” The New Yorker, 11 November 1961.
“The Talk of the Town: Jawaharlal Nehru.” The New Yorker, 18 November 1961.
“Onward and Upward with the Arts: A Battle Against the Bewitchment of Our Intelligence.” The New Yorker, 9 December 1961.
“The Talk of the Town: An Enclave.” The New Yorker, 17 February 1962.
“Books: Aristotle’s Dreamgirl.” Time & Tide, 5 April 1962.
“Onward and Upward with the Arts: A Second Voice.” The New Yorker, 14 April 1962.
“The Talk of the Town: The Peacocks.” The New Yorker, 5 May 1962.
“The Talk of the Town: Maharaja.” The New Yorker, 23 June 1962.
“Notes and Comment: With Mr. Khrushchev …” The New Yorker, 28 July 1962.
“Gin-Clear Water (I).” The Illustrated Weekly of India (Bombay), 19 August 1962.
“Gin-Clear Water (II).” The Illustrated Weekly of India, 26 August 1962.
“The Talk of the Town: Dr. Miller.” The New Yorker, 8 September 1962.
“Profiles: The Train Had Just Arrived at Malgudi Station.” The New Yorker, 15 September 1962.
“A Phonograph, a Radio (I).” Illustrated Weekly of India, 21 October 1962.
“A Phonograph, a Radio (II).” Illustrated Weekly of India, 4 November 1962.
“The Talk of the Town: Sweet Bells.” The New Yorker, 1 December 1962.
“The Talk of the Town: Mr. President.” The New Yorker, 8 December 1962.
“Onward and Upward with the Arts: The Flight of Crook-Taloned Birds (I).” The New Yorker, 8 December 1962.
“Onward and Upward with the Arts: The Flight of Crook-Taloned Birds (II).” The New Yorker, 15 December 1962.
“The Talk of the Town: Queens.” The New Yorker, 23 March 1963.
“Onward and Upward with the Arts: The Third.” The New Yorker, 18 May 1963.
“The Message of James Baldwin.” The Observer, 14 July 1963.
“The Talk of the Town: Tour.” The New Yorker, 13 June 1964.
“Notes and Comment: On the Evening of …” The New Yorker, 13 June 1964.
“Notes and Comment: A Gracious Couple …” The New Yorker, 25 July 1964.
“Meat, Not Bones for Underdogs.” The New York Herald Tribune Book Week, 9 August 1964.
“Profiles: Quiet, Beneficent Things.” The New Yorker, 31 October 1964.
“Sunday Lunch with Prime Minister Nehru.” Imprint (Bombay), November 1964. Reprinted from The New Yorker, 7 May 1960, 18 November 1961, and 13 June 1964.
“Item I.” The American Oxonian (Philadelphia), January 1965. Excerpted from The New Yorker, 31 October 1964.
“Department of Correction and Amplification.” The New Yorker, 9 January 1965.
“Books to Remember.” The Illustrated Weekly of India, 31 January 1965.
“Letters to the Editor.” The Village Voice, 13 May 1965.
“Letters to the Editor: The New Yorker.” The Observer, 23 May 1965.
“Quiet, Beneficent Things.” Books & Bookmen (London), May 1965. Reprinted from The New Yorker, 31 October 1964.
“The Talk of the Town: The Golden One.” The New Yorker, 26 June 1965.”
“The Talk of the Town: Music of Time.” The New Yorker, 3 July 1965.
“Notes and Comment: Perhaps Life Does Imitate …” The New Yorker, 3 July 1965.
“Notes and Comment: According to a Report …” The New Yorker, 17 July 1965.
“Notes and Comment: A Recent News Report …” The New Yorker, 31 July 1965.
“Notes and Comment: This Week’s Primary Election …” The New Yorker, 18 September 1965.
“Profiles: The New Theologian–Ecce Homo (I).” The New Yorker, 13 November 1965.
“Profiles: The New Theologian–The Ekklesia (II).” The New Yorker, 20 November 1965.
“Profiles: The New Theologian–Pastor Bonhoeffer (III).” The New Yorker, 27 November 1965.
“A Reporter at Large: Indian Journal–Forbidden to Come to the Shore (I).” The New Yorker, 9 September 1967.
“A Donkey in a World of Horses.” Read (Columbus, Ohio), 1 October 1967. Reprinted from Face to Face.
“A Reporter at Large: Indian Journal–Native Wood-Notes (II).” The New Yorker, 9 December 1967.
“A Reporter at Large: Indian Journal–The Sacred River of the Hindus (III).” The New Yorker, 1 June 1968.
“A Reporter at Large: Indian Journal–The Holy Hair of the Muslims (IV).” The New Yorker, 8 June 1968.
“A Reporter at Large: Indian Journal–The Himalayas: Toward the Forest of Arden (V).” The New Yorker, 19 July 1969.
“A Reporter at Large: Indian Journal–The Himalayas: Toward the Dead Land (VI).” The New Yorker, 26 July 1969.
“A Reporter at Large: Indian Journal–Development: The Pulsating Giant.” The New Yorker, 14 February 1970.
“Profiles: City of Dreadful Night.” The New Yorker, 21 March 1970.
“A Reporter at Large: Indian Journal–Leaden Echo, Golden Echo.” The New Yorker, 11 April 1970.
“Letters to the Editor: Portrait of India.” The Times (London), 6 October 1970.
“Portrait of India.” Imprint, November 1970. Reprinted from Portrait of India.
“Department of Amplification.” The New Yorker, 13 March 1971.
“Onward and Upward with the Arts: John Is Easy to Please.” The New Yorker, 8 May 1971.
“Notes and Comment: Last December, in Accordance …” The New Yorker, 3 July 1971.
“Letters to the Editor: Portrait of India.” Indian Express (Bombay), 11 November 1971.
“Letters to the Editor: Portrait of India.” The Statesman, 12 November 1971.
“Letter from West Bengal.” The New Yorker, 11 December 1971.
“Oxford and the Gaffer.” Books & Bookmen, January 1972. Reprinted from John Is Easy to Please.
“R.K. Narayan.” The Illustrated Weekly of India, 23 January 1972. Reprinted from John Is Easy to Please.
“Profiles: Daddyji (I).” The New Yorker, 22 April 1972.
“Profiles: Daddyji (II).” The New Yorker, 29 April 1972.
“Book Browsing: The Wheel of Nature.” World (New York), 4 July 1972. Reprinted from Daddyji. “Letters.” Harper’s, April 1973.
“Notes and Comment: On May 18th India Detonated Her …” The New Yorker, 3 June 1974.
“Notes and Comment: Ever Since the Testing of the First …” The New Yorker, 22 July 1974.
“Letter from New Delhi.” The New Yorker, 14 October 1974.
“Notes and Comment: Three Months Ago …” The New Yorker, 4 November 1974.
“A Letter from New Delhi.” The Observer, 19 January 1975. Reprinted from The New Yorker, 14 October 1974.
“Matters of Life and Death.” The Observer, 26 January 1975. Reprinted from The New Yorker, 14 October 1974. “Notes and Comment: At the Time of This Writing, the …” The New Yorker, 7 July 1975.
“Notes and Comment: When India Became Independent in 1947…” The New Yorker, 14 July 1975.
“Notes and Comment: We Have Just Received a Letter …” The New Yorker, 21 July 1975.
“Notes and Comment: We Have Received Another Letter …” The New Yorker, 28 July 1975.
“Notes and Comment: The Indian Constitution, Like …” The New Yorker, 25 August 1975.
“Reflections: Democracy in a Poor Country.” The New Yorker, 22 March 1976.
“Profiles: Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles–Subtler and More Lasting Shapes (I).” The New Yorker, 10 May 1976.
“Profiles: Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles–In the Steps of the Autobiographer and His Biographers (II).” The New Yorker, 17 May 1976.
“Profiles: Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles–The Company They Keep (III).” The New Yorker, 24 May 1976.
“The Talk of the Town: Dr. Amolak Ram.” The New Yorker, 19 July 1976.
“Department of Amplification.” The New Yorker, 4 October 1976.
“A Reporter at Large: The New India of Indira Gandhi.” The New Yorker, 14 February 1977.
“Feature Article: A Reporter At Large–The New India of Indira Gandhi.” India Express (Washington, D.C.), 12 March 1977. Reprinted from The New Yorker, 14 February 1977.
“Notes and Comment: What Indira Gandhi Used to Call …” The New Yorker, 4 April 1977.
“Letters to the Editor: Gandhi.” The New York Times Book Review, 24 April 1977.
“Department of Amplification.” The New Yorker, 9 May 1977.
“The Good Life.” The Observer Magazine, 12 June 1977. Reprinted from Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles.
“Letters to the Editor: A New Tryst With Destiny.” The Statesman, 15 August 1977.
“Letters to the Editor: A New Tryst With Destiny.” The Statesman Weekly, 20 August 1977. Reprinted from The Statesman, 15 August 1977.
“Our Local Correspondents: Naturalized Citizen No. 9845165.” The New Yorker, 29 August 1977.
“The Talk of the Town: Touch.” The New Yorker, 5 September 1977.
“Gandhi’s Role of ‘God’s Eunuch’ (I).” Blitz (Bombay), 1 October 1977. Reprinted from Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles.
“Non-Violence, Brahmacharya, and Goat’s Milk.” Sunday (Calcutta), 2 October 1977. Reprinted from Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles.
“Gandhi and Brahmacharya (I).” The Illustrated Weekly of India, 2 October 1977. Reprinted from Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles.
“Correspondence.” Political Science Quarterly (New York), vol. 92, No. 3, Fall 1977.
“Gandhi’s Role of ‘God’s Eunuch’ (II).” Blitz, 8 October 1977. Reprinted from Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles.
“Non-Violence, Brahmacharya, and Goat’s Milk.” Sunday,9 October 1977. Reprinted from Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles.
“Gandhi and Brahmacharya (II).” The Illustrated Weekly of India, 9 October 1977. Reprinted from Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles.
“The Talk of the Town: Rosalyn Tureck.” The New Yorker, 10 October 1977.
“Gandhi’s Role of ‘God’s Eunuch’ (III).” Blitz, 15 October 1977. Reprinted from Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles.
“Revolution: The Constructive Programme and Its Mahatmas.” Sunday, 16 October 1977. Reprinted from Mahatma Gandhi and Apostles.
“Letter from New Delhi.” The New Yorker, 17 October 1977.
“Notes and Comment: President Carter Is Contemplating …” The New Yorker, 7 November 1977.
“Touch.” Bowdoin Alumnus (Brunswick, Maine), Fall 1977. Reprinted from The New Yorker, 5 September 1977.
“Letters to the Editor: Ved Mehta.” The Irish Times (Dublin), 19 November 1977.
“Readers Write: Ved Mehta Replies to J. B. Kripalani.” The Illustrated Weekly of India, 25 December 1977.
“Letters to the Editor: Gandhi Myths.” The Statesman, 11 January 1978.
“Letters to the Editor: Talking About Gandhi Myths.” The Statesman Weekly, 14 January 1978.
“Letters: Searching for Truth in Gandhiana.” The Hindustan Times (New Delhi), 15 January 1978.
“Letters: Gandhi Author and Tapes.” The Hindustan Times, 16 April 1978.
“The Talk of the Town: Club.” The New Yorker, 22 May 1978.
“The Talk of the Town: Party for a Political Prisoner.” The New Yorker, 31 July 1978.
“Notes and Comment: On Wednesday the twenty-seventh …” The New Yorker, 20 November 1978.
“Profiles: Mamaji (I).” The New Yorker, 9 July 1979.
“Profiles: Mamaji (II).” The New Yorker, 16 July 1979.
“Profiles: Mamaji (III).” The New Yorker, 23 July 1979.
“A Family Affair.” The New Yorker, 17 March 1980.
“Onward and Upward with the Arts: The Photographs of Chachaji (I).” The New Yorker, 21 July 1980.
“Onward and Upward with the Arts: The Photographs of Chachaji (II).” The New Yorker, 28 July 1980.
“I Lost Them, Like My Balloon!” Debonair (Bombay), October 1980. Reprinted from Mamaji.
“Letters: Chachaji.” The New York Times Book Review, 4 January 1981.
“Letter from New Delhi.” The New Yorker, 3 August 1981.
“Letter from New Delhi.” The National Times (Sydney), 30 August to 5 September 1981. Reprinted from The New Yorker, 3 August 1981.
“Julia Elizabeth Hayden.” Obituary, The New Yorker, 28 September 1981.
“Notes and Comment: Muhammad Anwar El-Sadat Will Be …” The New Yorker, 19 October 1981.
“Personal History: Vedi (I).” The New Yorker, 26 October 1981.
“Personal History: Vedi (II).” The New Yorker, 2 November 1981.
“Notes and Comment: A Friend Who Is a …” The New Yorker, 28 June 1982.
“The Talk of the Town: White House Party.” The New Yorker, 16 August 1982.
“The Vanquished and the Victor.” Indian Express Magazine, 3 October 1982.
“Personal History: Family Group (I).” The New Yorker, 15 November 1982.
“Personal History: Family Group (II).” The New Yorker, 22 November 1982.
“Dwight Macdonald.” Obituary, The New Yorker, 3 January 1983.
“Growing Up Blind in a Sighted World.” New Society (London), 13 January 1983.
“Excerpts: A Family Affair–Family: Factions and Feuds (I).” Asian Post (London), 19 February 1983. Reprinted from A Family Affair.
“Excerpts: A Family Affair–Janata’s Old Men Let India Down (II).” Asian Post, 26 February 1983. Reprinted from A Family Affair.
“Excerpts: A Family Affair–Old Men and Authoritarianism (III).” Asian Post, 5 March 1983. Reprinted from A Family Affair.
“Excerpts: A Family Affair–Family, Friends and Foe (IV).” Asian Post, 12 March 1983. Reprinted from A Family Affair.
“Excerpts: A Family Affair–Feuds: Private and Public (V).” Asian Post, 19 March 1983. Reprinted from A Family Affair.
“Those Blind School Days.” The Hindustan Times Sunday Magazine, 10 April 1983. Reprinted from Vedi. “Letter from New Delhi.” The New Yorker, 16 May 1983.
“Personal History: Learning (I).” The New Yorker, 22 August 1983.
“Personal History: Learning (II).” The New Yorker, 29 August 1983.
“Personal History: Learning (III).” The New Yorker, 5 September 1983.
“Personal History: Learning (IV).” The New Yorker, 12 September 1983.
“Letters to the Editor: The Progression in Five Books by Ved Mehta.” The New York Times, 23 May 1984.
“Notes and Comment: There Are Moments in …” The New Yorker, 25 June 1984.
“Blind Boy on a Bicycle.” The Observer, 1 July 1984. Reprinted from The Ledge Between the Streams.
“Blind Boy on a Bicycle.” The Weekend Australian Magazine (Sydney), 21-22 July 1984. Reprinted from The Ledge Between the Streams.
“Notes and Comment: There Is Something Especially …” The New Yorker, 12 November 1984.
“Notes and Comment: What Is Perhaps Most Alarming …” The New Yorker, 19 November 1984.
“Personal History: Sound-Shadows of the New World (I).” The New Yorker, 11 February 1985.
“Personal History: Sound-Shadows of the New World (II).” The New Yorker, 18 February 1985.
“Ved Mehta: A Bibliography.” Bulletin of Bibliography, March 1985.
“Speak, Memory.” The Illustrated Weekly of India, 30 June 1985. Reprinted from Vedi.
“Letter from New Delhi.” The New Yorker, 2 September 1985.
“Personal History: Sound-Shadows (I).” The New Yorker, 18 November 1985.
“Personal History: Sound-Shadows (II).” The New Yorker, 25 November 1985.
“Letter from New Delhi.” The New Yorker, 19 January 1987.
“Personal History: At the Gates of California.” The New Yorker, 11 May 1987.
“Personal History: Among the Seven Pillars of Wisdom.” The New Yorker, 24 August 1987.
“Women!” The Illustrated Weekly of India, 13 December 1987. Reprinted from Sound-Shadows of the New World.
“Personal History: The Benefactress.” The New Yorker, 9 May 1988.
“Letter from New Delhi.” The New Yorker, 19 September 1988.
“Personal History: Promethean Fire.” The New Yorker, 19 December 1988.
“Smitten by a Golden California Girl.” The Sunday Express (London), 28 May 1989. Reprinted from The Stolen Light.
“Sunday Lunch with Prime Minister Nehru.” India Worldwide (New York), November 1989. Reprinted from Walking the Indian Streets.
“Letter from New Delhi.” The New Yorker, 19 August 1991.
“Personal History: A Lasting Impression.” The New Yorker, 11 November 1991.
“Scholars and Gentlemen.” The American Oxonian, (Hidden Valley, PA), Winter, 1992.
“My First Oxford Vac.” The American Oxonian, Fall, 1992.
“Remembering Mr.Shawn: Certainly Everything About Him…” The New Yorker, 28 December 1992/ 4 January 1993.
“What Shall I Read? An Oxford Memoir.” The American Scholar (Chicago), Winter, 1993.
“Comments: The Mosque and the Temple.” Foreign Affairs (New York), Spring, 1993.
“Personal History: Casualties of Oxford.” The New Yorker, 2 August, 1993.
“A Beginning at Oxford.” Icarus (New York), Summer, 1993.
“Room at the Top.” The Independent Sunday Review (London),19 September, 1993.
“Tea with the Tylors.” Balliol College Annual Record (Oxford), 1994.
“The Politics of Sanitation.” The Washington Quarterly (Washington, D.C.), Autumn, 1996.
“Coming Down.” Granta (London and New York), Spring, 1997.
“Autumn Collection: Revisiting Face to Face.” The Telegraph Magazine. (Calcutta), October, 1997.
“The New Yorker’s Mr. Shawn.” The Atlantic Monthly. (Boston), April, 1998.
“Lightning and the Lightning Bug: The Craft of the Essay.” The American Scholar. (Washington, D.C.), Spring, 1998.
“The Spectre of Religious Nuclear War.” The Times. (London), May 16, 1998.
“India’s Combustible Mixture.” The New York Times. May 16, 1998.
“Literary Lunch at the Algonquin: An edited extract from Ved Mehta’s Remembering Mr. Shawn’s New Yorker.” The Daily Telegraph. (London), July 18, 1998.
“Progress Report.” The Spectator. (London) August 5, 2000.
“Kiltykins.” Granta. (London), Winter 2000.
“Seeing without sight.” Telegraph Magazine. (London) August 11, 2001.
“Blind to the Love they Offered Me.” The Sunday Times News Review. (London) 2 September 2001.
“Continental Gift” The Guardian, January 15, 2005.
“Blazing a Trail.” Time Asia. (Hong Kong), 15 August 2005.
“Letters to the Editor.” The Sunday Times (London), 2 October 2005.
“Haunted by Harvard: Veritas (I).” Raritan (New Brunswick, NJ), Summer 2007.
“Haunted by Harvard: Veritas (II).” Raritan (New Brunswick, NJ), Fall 2007.