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Athens of the North
Early this year, fans of off-the-beaten-path Southern soul were presented with a funky little gem in the form of
William Stuckeyâs âLove Of Mine.â The 1979 record, laid down on tape for an Arkansas label called Symplex Records, was re-released in late January on Athens of the North, an Edinburgh, Scotland-based record label that specializes, its website reads, âin reissuing and officially licensing long lost, rare â and, above all, amazing â soul, disco, funk records.â
Stuckey, who is blind, is a multi-instrumentalist who got his start at the Arkansas School for the Blind â first, as a trumpet player, then a clarinetist, saxophonist, pianist and bandleader whoâd end up eschewing a scholarship to the Music Conservatory of the Chicago College of Performing Arts in favor of playing professionally with a Little Rock outfit and then crafting a life as a performer and session musician through the
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Dr. John McAllister, of Little Rock, has always known that he wanted to work in a field concerning vision, even though he wasn’t always sure what that career would look like.
“I was always enamored with the eyes and vision,” McAllister said. “I was trying to figure out my path of what I wanted to do in life, and one day I thought I wanted to be an optometrist. That opportunity got away from me, and the next opportunity was in the field of blindness and vision impairment. When I got into the field, I loved it.”
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Mehta hated to be called the blind Indian writer. It described him, but didn’t define him. He knew too many adjectives diminished ‘writer’. That single word was enough.
He was the finest of prose stylists, writing with a care for words and a felicity which appeared natural but was in fact finely honed. No word (or experience) was wasted. His autobiography in 12 volumes,
Continents of Exile, where each book stood independently, was more than just that. It was his history told against the background of the history of his world in India, UK and the US where he was a
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.