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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’.” ....

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The All-Seeing Recorder | Outlook India Magazine

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Mehta hated to be called the blind Indian writer. It described him, but didn’t define him. He knew too many adjectives diminished ‘writer’. That single word was enough.
He was the finest of prose stylists, writing with a care for words and a felicity which appeared natural but was in fact finely honed. No word (or experience) was wasted. His autobiography in 12 volumes,
Continents of Exile, where each book stood independently, was more than just that. It was his history told against the background of the history of his world in India, UK and the US where he was a ....

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Ved Mehta, celebrated staff writer at The New Yorker and acclaimed author, passes away aged 86

Ved Mehta, celebrated staff writer at The New Yorker and acclaimed author, passes away aged 86
Mehta was long praised by critics for his forthright, luminous prose with its “informal elegance, diamond clarity and hypnotic power”.
Ved Mehta. Photo courtesy
Penguin Random House India
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 own autobiography, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 86.
The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease, his wife, Linn Cary Mehta, said.
Associated with the magazine for more than three decades much of his magnum opus began as articles in its pages Mehta was widely considered the 20th-century writer most responsible for introducing American readers to India. ....

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