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MEHTA, Ved (Parkash): b. 21 March 1934, Lahore, India. Writer; Teacher. m. Linn Fennimore Cooper Cary, 1983, two d. Education: BA Pomona College, 1956; BA, 1959, MA, 1962, University of Oxford; MA, Harvard University, 1961; Hon. Fellow Balliol College, 1999. Career: Residential Fellow, Eliot House, Harvard, University, 1959-1961; Staff Writer, The New Yorker magazine, 1961-1994; Visiting Scholar, Case Western Reserve University, 1974; Beatty Lecturer, McGill University, 1979; Visiting Prof., Bard College, 1985, 1986, Sarah Lawrence College, 1988, New York University, 1989-1990; Visiting Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford, 1988-1989; Visiting Prof., Yale University, 1990-1993, Williams College, 1994, Vassar College, 1994-1996; Senior Fellow, Freedom Forum, Media Studies Center, Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, 1996-1997; Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioural Sciences, 1997-1998. Publications: Face to Face, 1957; Walking the Indian Streets, 1960; Fly and the Fly-Bottle, 1963; The New Theologian, 1966; Delinquent Chachaji, 1967; Portrait of India, 1970; John is Easy to Please, 1971; Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles, 1977; The New India, 1978; Photographs of Chachaji, 1980; A Family Affair: India Under Three Prime Ministers, 1982; Three Stories of the Raj, 1986; Rajiv Gandhi and Rama’s Kingom, 1994; A Ved Mehta Reader: The Craft of the Essay, 1998. Continents of Exile autobiographical series: Daddyji, 1972; Mamaji, 1979; Vedi, 1982; The Ledge Between the Streams, 1984; Sound Shadows of the New World, 1986; The Stolen Light, 1989; Up at Oxford, 1993; Remembering Mr. Shawn’s New Yorker, 1998; All for Love, 2001; Dark Harbor, 2003; The Red Letters, 2004. Contributions: PBS-TV and BBC-TV. Honours: Guggenheim Fellowships, 1971-72, 1977-78; Ford Foundation Grant 1971-1976; Assn of Indians in America Award, 1978; Ford Foundation Public Policy Grant, 1979-82; John D. and Catharine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 1982-87; Distinguished Service Award, Asian/Pacific American Library Assn, 1986; New York City Mayor’s Liberty Medal, 1986; New York Institute for the Humanities Fellowship 1988-92; Literary Lion Medal, New York Public Library, 1990; Literary Lion Centennial Medal, 1996; Hon. doctorates. Membership: Council on Foreign Relations.. Website: www.vedmehta.com
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