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- Ved Parkash Mehta (21 March 1934 – 9 January 2021) was an Indian-born writer who lived and worked mainly in the United States. Blind from an early age, Mehta is best known for an autobiography published in installments from 1972 to 2004. He wrote for The New Yorker for many years.
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Ved Parkash Mehta (21 March 1934 – 9 January 2021) was an Indian-born writer who lived and worked mainly in the United States. Blind from an early age, Mehta is best known for an autobiography published in installments from 1972 to 2004. He wrote for The New Yorker for many years.
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Jan 10, 2021 · By Margalit Fox. Jan. 10, 2021. Ved Mehta, a longtime writer for The New Yorker whose best-known work, spanning a dozen volumes, explored the vast, turbulent history of modern India...
Jan 10, 2021 · Ved Mehta, a writer for The New Yorker for more than thirty years, died at the age of eighty-six, on Saturday morning. Born in Lahore to a well-off Punjabi family, he lost his sight when he...
Jan 12, 2021 · 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,...
Feb 6, 2021 · Famed for introducing the Western reader to India, the prolific writer Ved Mehta (1934-2021) may have lost his vision at the age of three but was gifted instead with visual poetry and...
Jan 11, 2021 · Celebrated Indian-American novelist Ved Mehta, who overcame blindness and became widely known as the 20th-century writer most responsible for introducing American readers to India, has died at...
Jan 11, 2021 · On January 9, celebrated writer Ved Mehta passed away at the age of 86 in New York. He was born in 1934 in Lahore, Pakistan, and lost his vision at the age of four, because of cerebrospinal meningitis. He was sent to study in a school for the blind in Bombay, followed by another one in Arkansas, US.
