His article on a visit to India was published in 1960 in the New Yorker and its editor, William Shawn hired him as a staff writer. He returned to the US and received a master's degree from Harvard. He moved on to Pomona College in California for his bachelor's degree and then to Oxford for another. Mehta sent off letters to various schools for the blind abroad and he was accepted by Arkansas School for the Blind in the US where he began studying in 1949. Meanwhile, during the bloody partition of India, his family joined the millions fleeing to India from what became Pakistan.
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He later published a series of autobiographic books, “Continents of Exile,” starting with “Daddyji” about his father Amolak Ram Mehta, a doctor whose regret was that he had not been able to save his son's eyesight.įrom Lahore, his father sent him to a school for the blind in what was then Bombay and later to an institution in Dehra Dun primarily for soldiers who had lost their vision in action. His first book, “Face to Face,” a recounting of his early life that was published in 1957 and caught the eye of literary figures, launching his career as a writer and turning him away from a career of scholarship that he had initially set on. Mehta was born in 1934 in pre-partition Lahore and educated in India, Britain and the United States, which he made his home and became an American citizen. Mehta provided the first introduction to India for many contemporary Americans through his popular books and articles that ranged from the autobiographical to the political and historic. The New Yorker magazine, where he had been a staff writer for 33 years, reported that he had died on Saturday. Mehta's books have vivid descriptions of people and scenes as if he had seen them, but based on his sensitive hearing and other senses. The prolific writer of 24 books and hundreds of articles lost his eyesight because of meningitis at the age of three, but that was never a handicap as he navigated the world uncannily with his remaining four senses and did not use even a cane or seek assistance from anyone. Ved Mehta died at his home in Manhattan on Januat the age of 86.Ved Mehta, who shined a bright literary light of evocativeness and imagery overcoming his blindness, has died here at the age of 86. He was given an honorary degree from Pomona College, Bard College, Williams College, The University of Stirling, and Bowdoin College. In 1982, he received the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." In 2009, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 19. After leaving The New Yorker, he taught at Yale, Vassar, New York University, and elsewhere. He was hired as a staff writer in 1961 and remained there until 1994. He worked for more than thirty years at The New Yorker magazine. Shawn's New York: The Invisible Art of Editing (1998). His other books included Walking the Indian Streets The Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals (1963) The New Theologian (1966) John is Easy to Please (1971) Delinquent Chacha (1967) and Remembering Mr.
The last book in the series, The Red Letters, was published in 2004. They were collectively known as, Continents of Exile. But he was best-known work was a 12-volume memoir that also illuminated the history of India. He wrote numerous articles on life in 20th-century India. He received his master's degree from Harvard in 1961. He earned a second bachelor's degree in modern history from Balliol College, Oxford. He later attended Pomona College in Southern California, graduating in 1956. At 15, he came to the United States to attend a school for the blind in Arkansas. He was born in Lahore, India on March 21, 1934. Ved Parkash Mehta was an America writer and journalist.
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