![]() ![]() Mehta holds that India, although the world’s most populous parliamentary democracy, remains a feudal society, organised around principles of caste and family. 'A Family Affair: India Under Three Prime Ministers' (1982) -The book recounts the political history of India since independence. 'Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals' (1962) - This book is a collection of Mehta’s revealing conversations with some of the 20th century’s most important philosophers: Isaiah Berlin, Gilbert Ryle, and Elizabeth Anscombe. Ved Mehta, a longtime writer for The New Yorker whose best-known work, spanning a dozen volumes, explored the vast, turbulent history of modern India through the intimate lens of his own autobiography, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He describes his lonely and turbulent childhood in India, acceptance to the Arkansas School for the Blind, the way his life changed after that, leading to degrees at Oxford and Harvard Universities and a fruitful writing career. 'Face to Face: An Autobiography' (1957) - Mehta’s first book is his autobiography. 'Portrait of India' (1970) - Portrait of India presents Mehta’s impressions of his native land - his first-hand report on India’s villages and cities, its religions, politics and wars, its poets, philosophers, maharajas, and priests. 'Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles' (1976) - This book is one of the great portraits of Mahatma Gandhi. 'Daddyji' (1972) - This book is a biographical portrait of Mehta’s father Amolak Ram Mehta, a distinguished Indian public-health officer. He also taught writing at numerous colleges and universities. ![]() Mehta authored 27 books, and was a member of the British Royal Society of Literature. In his life, Mehta wrote several books - most notable among them were his personal essays - and was considered to be quite a luminary. In an interview, Mehta had stated that writing was partially a result of his loneliness. He will be remembered in India for his moving account of his childhood at the age of three, he became blind after suffering from an attack of. Mehta was a staff writer for ‘The New Yorker’ magazine for 33 years. He was sent to study in a school for the blind in Bombay, followed by another one in Arkansas, US. Book 9 in Ved Mehtas Continents of Exile series. ![]() Born in Lahore in 1934, at the age of four he was blinded by. Shawns New Yorker Continents of Exile: 9 by Ved Mehta available from Rakuten Kobo. He was born in 1934 in Lahore, Pakistan, and lost his vision at the age of four. Ved Mehta is a celebrated writer, and a man who overcame severe disability by sheer will power. Mehta, a New Yorker magazine staff writer, has written more than a dozen books about his native India, his blindness from the age of 3, his fascination with Western philosophers and. He is considered as the 20th-century writer who introduced India to many Americans. Associated with the magazine for over three decades, much of his celebrated works began as articles in its pages. Celebrated writer Ved Mehta passed away at the age of 86 in New York on January 9. Mehta was a staff writer at The New Yorker for 33 years. ![]()
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