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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 · 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 through the intimate lens of his...
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 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 his...
Jan 11, 2021 · Born in pre-partition Lahore to a well-off Punjabi family in 1934, Mehta lost his eyesight when he was three years old to meningitis. He, however, did not let his impairment get in the way...
Jan 11, 2021 · Noted author Ved Mehta passed away at the age of 86 on January 9, Saturday in New York. Born in 1934 in Lahore, he lost his vision at the age of four due to cerebrospinal meningitis and was soon sent to study in a school for the blind in Bombay, followed by another one in Arkansas, US.
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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, recalling...
