Ved Mehta and His Daughter, Sage
Blind from the age of four, Ved Mehta, now 71, was born
in India and educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities.
He was a staff writer on The New Yorker magazine for over
30 years. His 25 books include classic accounts of modern
India and studies of his family, as well as fiction. Three
of his most recent books are The Red Letters, Dark Harbor,
and Remembering Mr Shawn's New Yorker. He lives in New York
with his wife, Linn. They have two daughters, Sage, 20,
and Natasha, 18. Sage is studying English at Princeton University. |
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Ved Mehta wrote the following letter to The Sunday Times
in response to this column. It was published on October 2, 2005.
In your Relative Values column (Magazine, September 18), about
my daughter Sage and me, you have me say, "Sage can change her
clothes seven times in one day." She did things like that when
she was four or five years old, but she's grown up to be a wise
and sensitive young woman — not the superficial fashion plate
of your interviewer's imagination.
Similarly, you have Sage say about me, "Everything in his life
— every person, every memory and every thought — is
poached and used in his writing." I could never have written and
published 25 books in the past 48 years by such an illicit, iniquitous
method. Sage never used the word "poached". These errors are inexplicable.
Ved Mehta, New York, USA
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