The Essential Ved Mehta is the definitive collection of the author’s work, containing excerpts from nearly all his writings, many of which first appeared in William Shawn’s New Yorker. It begins with his first book, the classic autobiography highlighting his ...
Daddyji is, at first glance, a biographical portrait of Amolak Ram Mehta, a distinguished Indian public-health officer, written by his son Ved Mehta, but in reality, as the story unfolds, it is seen to be a recreation, in crystalline detail, of ...
In this deeply affecting chronicle of a high-caste Hindu family, Ved Mehta tells of his mother, Shanti Devi Mehta—Mamaji, as her children called her—and of her forebears. Mamaji’s grandfather hawked lengths of cheap cloth through the fetid gullis of his ...
“Namaste.” Vedi’s father bade him the Hindu farewell. “You are a man now.” It was the first step in Ved Mehta’s long journey toward independence. He was a month shy of five years old, and he was to spend much ...
n the summer of 1943, an Indian public-health official (Daddyji) and his wife (Mamaji) were travelling with their six children to the Vale of Kashmir for a holiday. During a break in the journey, their blind nine-year-old son, Ved—the author ...
In 1949, the fifteen year-old Ved Mehta, who had been totally blind since the age of four, left his native India and travelled alone to Little Rock to attend the Arkansas School for the Blind. For the next three years, ...
In this new volume of a remarkable life story, Ved Mehta takes us through his college years—an adventurous young adulthood in California. After his father—a retired Indian-government health official—managed to secure the means to enter him in Pomona College, Ved ...
To be at Oxford: the university had occupied Ved Mehta’s imagination ever since he was a small, blind Hindu boy, during the British Raj. His quest for learning had taken him from India, where education for the blind consisted of ...
For more than three decades, a quiet man, some would say almost an invisible man, dwelt at the center of American journalistic and literary life. He was William Shawn, the editor-in-chief of The New Yorker from 1952 to 1987. He stood fast against ...
This is the true and intimate story of one man and his love of four women, each of them very different, but each in her turn the object of his hopes and desires. What does Ved Mehta want of these women? ...
When Ved Mehta was first invited to Islesboro, a narrow, thirteen-mile-long island off the coast of Maine, he could not have imagined the far-reaching consequences of his visit. Seduced by a dream of putting down roots in the New World, he ...
Ved Mehta's acclaimed Continents of Exile seires ends where it began—with a portrait of his father, Amolak Ram Mehta. But this, the final installment of the eleven-book series, which has been appearing over the last thirty-two years, is its emotional ...