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Obstinate Love: In Memory of the Great Ved Mehta

Chaya Bhuvaneswar Remembers the Renowned Writer
and Influential Mentor
February 4, 2021
Love is obstinate—more than patient or kind. That fact more than anything is what I learned from the writer Ved Mehta.
We met when I was a freshman and signed up for his writing class. We sat in a basement conference room while a quietly-stoned classmate made funny faces, mocking Ved’s blindness. Though Ved and I never spoke of it, I think he knew fully what was happening. Yet his composure never faltered, and he had an effective way of letting the silence gave way to serious talk. He had a somehow watchful presence when students read their work, sometimes even remarking on their physical features to me later (“Is that one a dancer? I would have thought so. She’s graceful and small.”). I don’t know how much he even believed in the concept of “workshopping” anything, except he managed to create a sense of pleasant suspense in the room. Reading our pieces, it mattered to us what he’d say.

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Missing the Gandhian imprint - The Hindu

Missing the Gandhian imprint
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February 05, 2021 01:05 IST
Neither the government nor the urban middle classes have felt a sense of unease over the farmers’ despair
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A farmer stands next to police barricades at Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border in Ghaziabad on February 2, 2021.
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Neither the government nor the urban middle classes have felt a sense of unease over the farmers’ despair
Gifted journalist Ved Mehta, who passed away last month, believed that Gandhi was hard to copy. Writing about Martin Luther King’s struggle against racism in the United States, Mehta wondered if Gandhi could be replicated in that country. Mehta found Gandhi’s standards of ethical conduct far too high for emulation by others. He also thought that Gandhi was lucky not to have been born in Leopold’s Congo or Stalin’s Russia or Hitler’s Germany. Under such regimes, ‘he would have met his death in a purge’, Mehta wrote.

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The All-Seeing Recorder | Outlook India Magazine

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2021-01-28T11:28:41+05:30
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 | Granta

Ved Mehta | Granta
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Literary Notes: In a terrible time, books with resilience themes are refreshing

News and notes from the world of books.

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Signs of the time: Streams of freedoms flood

With the passing away of writer #VedMehta, I can only say that we have lost not just a great writer but also a man with a definite personality

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Ved Mehta—A illustrious writer of the sub-continent

Ved Mehta—An illustrious writer of the sub-continent
By News Desk| Updated: 16th January 2021 12:23 pm IST
Fakir Syed Aijazuddin
To Lahoris, Sheranwala is one of the twelve gates that led into the ancient walled city. To New Yorkers, it was the portal through which they were admitted into the mind of the gifted writer Ved Mehta.
Ved was born in Lahore in March 1934. He died in New York on 9 January 2021. In his benighted youth, Ved attended the then Emerson School of the Blind located near Sheranwala Gate. The scars from the callousness of insensitive teachers had healed by the time he migrated to India in 1947. The lesions on his psyche remained.

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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 16, 2021

On January 15, the 9th round of talks took place between the representatives of protesting peasants and the Government of India over the three (...)

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A forgotten son - Newspaper

The writer is an author.
TO Lahoris, Sheranwala is one of the 12 gates that led into the ancient walled city. To New Yorkers, it was the portal through which they were admitted into the mind of the gifted writer Ved Mehta.
Ved was born in Lahore in March 1934. He died in New York on Jan 9, 2021. In his benighted youth, Ved attended the then Emerson School of the Blind located near Sheranwala Gate. The scars from the callousness of insensitive teachers had healed by the time he migrated to India in 1947. The lesions on his psyche remained.
Determined to do more with his life than threading cane chairs or playing a musical instrument, he moved to the United States at the age of 15. There, at Arkansas School for the Blind, in Little Rock, he learned to compensate for the loss of one of his senses by refining the other four.

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On Sankranti, The Role Of Kites In Ved Mehta's Life

On Sankranti, the role of kites in Ved Mehta’s life
The acclaimed writer, who passed away on January 9, lost his sight at age 3. But he’d accompany his elder siblings when they flew kites, and started to learn how to get around based on his other senses.
January 13, 2021 / 08:04 AM IST
Makar Sankranti will be observed on January 14. As is tradition, kites have started soaring and dipping in skies across India, like planes on a radar screen.
The sport played an important role in the development of Ved Mehta, the acclaimed author who passed away on January 9 at the age of 86. Mehta wrote a staggering 27 books and several articles over three decades for The New Yorker despite a condition that would have defeated a lesser man. He had been blind since the age of three. In 1982, Mehta’s work also won him what is often called a ‘genius grant’ - a MacArthur Fellowship worth $2,36,000.

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