Ved Mehta, an Eclectic Writer of Prose Whose Disability Didn't Prevent Him from Seeing the World
A tribute by a younger writer and longstanding admirer who was greatly inspired by Mehta.
Ved Mehta. Photo: YouTube screengrab
Culture11/Jan/2021
The writer Ved Mehta has died. He was 86. He will be remembered in India for his moving account of his childhood â at the age of three, he became blind after suffering from an attack of meningitis. He was admitted by his affluent doctor father at the Dadar School for the Blind. After a distinguished scholarly career that took him from Pomona College in California to Oxford University and then to Harvard, he joined