The Essential Ved Mehta
The Essential Ved Mehta is the definitive collection of the author’s work, containing excerpts from nearly all his writings, many of which ...
The Red Letters: My Father’s Enchanted Period
Ved Mehta's acclaimed Continents of Exile seires ends where it began—with a portrait of his father, Amolak Ram Mehta. But this, the ...
Dark Harbor: Building House and Home...
When Ved Mehta was first invited to Islesboro, a narrow, thirteen-mile-long island off the coast of Maine, he could not have imagined ...
All for Love
This is the true and intimate story of one man and his love of four women, each of them very different, but ...
Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker...
For more than three decades, a quiet man, some would say almost an invisible man, dwelt at the center of American journalistic ...
A Ved Mehta Reader
Unsurpassed as a prose stylist, Ved Mehta is an acknowledged master of the essay form. In this book—the first special collection of ...
Rajiv Gandhi and Rama’s Kingdom
This elegantly written book by the renowned author Ved Mehta is a chronicle of a tumultuous dozen years of recent Indian history—from ...
Up at Oxford
To be at Oxford: the university had occupied Ved Mehta’s imagination ever since he was a small, blind Hindu boy, during the ...
The Stolen Light
In this new volume of a remarkable life story, Ved Mehta takes us through his college years—an adventurous young adulthood in California. ...
Sound-Shadows of the New World
In 1949, the fifteen year-old Ved Mehta, who had been totally blind since the age of four, left his native India and ...
Three Stories of the Raj
Scolar Press is pleased to announce the publication of a fine limited edition of Three Stories of the Raj, by Ved Mehta, author ...
The Ledge Between the Streams
n the summer of 1943, an Indian public-health official (Daddyji) and his wife (Mamaji) were travelling with their six children to the ...
Vedi
“Namaste.” Vedi’s father bade him the Hindu farewell. “You are a man now.” It was the first step in Ved Mehta’s long ...
A Family Affair
A Family Affair is a sequel to Ved Mehta's much acclaimed The New India. Together the two books recount the political history of India ...
The Photographs of Chachaji
There can seldom have been a more unpromising subject for a film or a book than Chachaji, and yet he became the ...
Mamaji
In this deeply affecting chronicle of a high-caste Hindu family, Ved Mehta tells of his mother, Shanti Devi Mehta—Mamaji, as her children ...
The New India
In this book, Ved Mehta tells the story—hitherto obscured by a combination of censorship, propaganda, and ignorance—of the "new India" that began ...
Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles
It long seemed that Mahatma Gandhi could not be comprehended by the Western mind. Having arisen in a culture that had so ...
Daddyji
Daddyji is, at first glance, a biographical portrait of Amolak Ram Mehta, a distinguished Indian public-health officer, written by his son Ved Mehta, ...
John Is Easy to Please
The six pieces collected here for the first time have been chosen by Ved Mehta from a decade of reportorial work forThe ...
Portrait of India
India contains one-sixth of the world’s people. It is the world’s largest democracy. Its culture is old and great. Its political importance ...
Delinquent Chacha
Ved Mehta, who has been known chiefly for his reports on the ideas and personalities of contemporary philosophers, historians, and theologians, has, ...
The New Theologian
In March of 1963, the Right Reverend John Robinson, Suffragan Bishop of Woolwich, wrote an article for the London Observer that appeared ...
Fly and the Fly-Bottle
In the years 1961-62, Ved Mehta, celebrated journalist, memoirist, and intellectual in his own right, wrote a series of articles for The New ...
Walking the Indian Streets
After ten years of study in England and America, Ved Mehta revisited his home in India in the summer of 1959. In ...
Face to Face
This is the valiant autobiography of a blind young Hindu who found in America the education and liberation which he could not ...