He is concerned about those poor blind people who could not afford special education which he was lucky to have due to his parents affordability. He has written his experiences with society and the stigma of blindness that resulted in many humiliating experiences. Though he was born in a relatively well- to- do family and his father being a doctor, he was exposed to the poverty stricken India early in life while he was studying in Bombay. The uniqueness not only reflected in his autobiographical writings but also in the images he conveyed through fictional figure and situations. (A ved Mehta Reader ( critical survey of contemporary Fiction) He has lived in different cultures and therefore, brings all his experience into his works. His forte is the personal essay, but the personal essay of ideas,and nearly all the essays in The Ved Mehta Reader record his experiences with some of the more complex philosophical and political issues of modern life. He has been a prolific writer on various issues. The New India ( study of modernisation 1978) Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles ( portrait of Gandhi1977)
Among his books include Walking the Indian Streets(1960) a travel journalįly and the Fly Bottle: Encounters with Brutish intellectuals ( contemporary philosophy and historiography: Boston : Little Brown 1962ĭelinquent Chacha ( a novel: New York: Harper and Row 1966) He attended ‘Jaipur Literary Festival ‘ in 2014. He was elected a Fellow of ‘Royal Society of Literature in 2009. He was a staff writer at ‘ The New Yorker’ from 1961 to 1994. His first bok ‘ Face to Face ‘ was published in 1957 which deals with his early life and politics in India. He lived in the western world since 1949 and became an American citizen in 1975.
Ved Mehta in his second bok of Memoirs ‘ Stolen Light’ mentions that the reader read with clarity that Mehta had the illusion that he was explaining things. He mentioned about the reader in his works with admiration. As few books in Braille were available, a student reader Eugene Rose used to read out to him. He was educated at Pomona college, Oxford in modern History and Harvard college,USA where he earned double BA and an MA. Due to limited prospects to blind people, he was sent to Dadar School for the Blind in Bombay ( now Mumbai) from his place of birth Lahore ( Pakistan). Ved Parkash Mehta ( born March 21, 1934) lost his eye sight at the age of four to cerebrospinal Meningitis ( wikipedia). Several of them deal with the subject of blindness. One of them was Ved Mehta, who, despite all odds, has contributed a lot to English literature. There are many writers in English from the sub- continent who mad a mark on the world literary stage. ( https.za/literary -birthday – 21- march- ved- mehta) Literature can only survive with individual taste. We are living in an odd world where the written word is at a discount. ‘ Now we are living in an age everything has to be fast. Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Telegram Share on Reddit Share on Email
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