Mehta lived in New York, and is survived by his wife Linn Carey and children Natasha and Alexandra. Besides his famous autobiography, his other prominent work include Face to Face (1957), Walking the Indian Streets (1960), Portrait of India (1970), and Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles (1977). He also taught writing at several colleges and universities. Mehta is the author of 27 books, a MacArthur Prize Fellow, and a member of the British Royal Society of Literature. Mehta studied at Pomona College and Oxford University. In an interview with The New York Times, Mehta recalled that his father Amolak Ram Mehta refused to believe that his loss was permanent. However, he didn’t let his blindness stop him from flourishing through his literary skills. Mehta was born in pre-partition Lahore in 1934 and lost his vision at the age of four due to cerebrospinal meningitis. Only in the New Yorker, kids, could anyone in the magazine biz get away with the sky-high idealism Mehta eloquently describes. His most popular work is the 12-volume autobiographical series Continents of Exile, which explored the turbulent and vast history of modern India. He is considered as the 20th-century writer who introduced India to many Americans. 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. Associated with the magazine for over three decades, much of his celebrated works began as articles in its pages. He wrote for The New Yorker for many years. Blind from an early age, Mehta is best known for an autobiography published in instalments from 1972 to 2004. Mehta was a staff writer at The New Yorker for 33 years. In this book, the renowned author Ved Mehta brings Gandhi to life in all his holiness and humanness, shedding light on his principles and his purposes. Ved Parkash Mehta (21 March 1934 9 January 2021) was an Indian-born writer who lived and worked mainly in the United States. Mehta who overcame blindness through his words is known as the 20th-century writer who introduced American readers to India. Mehta, who has written incisively about India for The New Yorker and has done a series of novels about himself. His wife, Linn Cary Mehta stated the cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease. VED MEHTA CELEBRATED THE NEW YORKER MANUAL. Prolific Indian American author Ved Mehta passed away at the age of 86 on January 9 at his Manhattan home. Mehta’s best known work explored the history of modern India. Long something of a closed shop, the magazine has spawned a clutch of books recently, including memoirs by former New Yorker writers Ved Mehta (his a.
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