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Obituary: Ved Mehta, writer whose work introduced western readers to India

Died, January 9, 2021. IN 1949, at the age of fifteen, Ved Mehta boarded a plane in New Delhi and, forty-seven hours later, disembarked in New York. He was travelling alone for the first time, spoke broken English and was desperately homesick. He was also blind. On arrival in the United States he was met by a woman he did not know who, with her husband, had agreed to look after him. The culture shock was seismic. Everything was different: the food, the on-tap hot water, the casual intimacy of husbands and wives. “As a Hindu, I had never eaten beef,” recalled Mehta, faced with a plate of spaghetti and meatballs, “and the mere thought of it was revolting. But I recalled another of Daddyji’s sayings, ‘When in Rome, do as the Romans do’.”

Why We Should Read Poetry - BOMB Magazine

Photo courtesy of Brooke Matson. Brooke Matson is a Spokane-based poet and book artist whose latest collection, In Accelerated Silence , explores the intersections of Big Science (think astrophysics) and Big Feeling (think grief and resilience). Both philosophical and grounded in the elements and the body, these poems read like missives from a starry night, when the body feels alive and the mind contemplative. Hum by Jamaal May: Maybe because I read it on my first writing residency, May’s first full collection showcases his talent for word choice, rhythm, and creativity on the page. You can almost feel him pushing the boundaries of each poem in terms of structure, perspective, imagery, or all of them at once. The word choice is so spot-on that many of the poems take on a texture or resonant quality (as the title of the book implies). Needless to say, these poems inspired me to experiment during my residency and I still return to the poems often. Some have become downright impr

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