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Ved Mehta An illustrious writer of the sub-continent By News Desk| Updated: 16th January 2021 12:23 pm IST Fakir Syed Aijazuddin To Lahoris, Sheranwala is one of the twelve gates that led into the ancient walled city. To New Yorkers, it was the portal through which they were admitted into the mind of the gifted writer Ved Mehta. Ved was born in Lahore in March 1934. He died in New York on 9 January 2021. In his benighted youth, Ved attended the then Emerson School of the Blind located near Sheranwala Gate. The scars from the callousness of insensitive teachers had healed by the time he migrated to India in 1947. The lesions on his psyche remained. ....
The writer is an author. TO Lahoris, Sheranwala is one of the 12 gates that led into the ancient walled city. To New Yorkers, it was the portal through which they were admitted into the mind of the gifted writer Ved Mehta. Ved was born in Lahore in March 1934. He died in New York on Jan 9, 2021. In his benighted youth, Ved attended the then Emerson School of the Blind located near Sheranwala Gate. The scars from the callousness of insensitive teachers had healed by the time he migrated to India in 1947. The lesions on his psyche remained. Determined to do more with his life than threading cane chairs or playing a musical instrument, he moved to the United States at the age of 15. There, at Arkansas School for the Blind, in Little Rock, he learned to compensate for the loss of one of his senses by refining the other four. ....
Ved Mehta, whose monumental autobiography explored life in India, dies at 86 Harrison Smith Ved Mehta, an author and journalist who helped introduce Americans to Indian history and culture, most notably in an epic 12-volume autobiography that melded the personal and political, recalling his childhood vision loss and the traumas of Indian partition, died Jan. 9 at his home in Manhattan. He was 86. The cause was complications from Parkinson’s disease, said his wife, Linn Cary Mehta. Mr. Mehta wrote for the New Yorker magazine for more than three decades, reporting on Oxford philosophers, Christian theologians, Noam Chomsky’s polarizing linguistic theories and the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, whose disciples he spent years interviewing in the 1970s, long after the Indian independence leader was assassinated. ....