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Autobiographical excerpt:

"Deprivation often makes a writer. I was born, in 1934, into a Hindu family in India. When I was a couple of months short of my fourth birthday, I lost my sight as the result of an attack of cerebrospinal meningitis. In India, one of the poorest countries the world has ever known, the lot of the blind was to beg with a walking stick in one hand and an alms bowl in the other. Hindus consider blindness a punishment for sins committed in a previous incarnation. But my father, a doctor, tried to fight the superstition and give me an education, like his other children, so that I could become, as he used to say, a self-supporting citizen of the world." Read more from Ved Mehta's personal history...

From "Sightless in a Sighted World," by Ved Mehta, Encyclopedia Britannica, Medical 2nd Health Annual, 1985.

Read Ved Mehta's entry in The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English

News and Announcements

Uniform Edition of Continents of Exile, 2008

Ved Mehta has signed a contract with Osian's, The Literary Agency based in Mumbai. It has arranged for Roli Books of New Dehli to publish a uniform edition of Continents of Exile, which numbers four thousand pages in twelve self-standing self-contained books including Veritas set at Harvard.

Haunted by Harvard

The new Article by Ved Mehta, "Haunted by Harvard," is published in Raritan Summer 2007 and Fall 2007 issues.

Part One: Raritan, Summer 2007

Part Two: Raritan, Fall 2007

New York Times Style Magazine

"The Photographs of Chachaji is the book that first got me interested in India." - Wes Anderson talking about his latest film, The Darjeeling Limited. Click for Image

Dark Harbor now available in Paperback

"Mehta gives eyes to our understanding of courage." - Cynthia Ozick

The Hindu

Ved Mehta interviewed in "The Hindu," the on-line edition of India's national Newspaper.

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