Author: Ved Mehta

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In March of 1963, the Right Reverend John Robinson, Suffragan Bishop of Woolwich, wrote an article for the London Observer that appeared under the headline Our Image of God Must Go. Soon afterward, a …

Ved Mehta, who has been known chiefly for his reports on the ideas and personalities of contemporary philosophers, historians, and theologians, has, in Delinquent Chacha, written his first novel. It …

After ten years of study in England and America, Ved Mehta revisited his home in India in the summer of 1959. In this book he gives a sensitive and vivid account sometimes deeply serious, sometimes v …

When Ved Mehta was first invited to Islesboro, a narrow, thirteen-mile-long island off the coast of Maine, he could not have imagined the far-reaching consequences of his visit. Seduced by a dream of …

Although Ved Mehta has been blind since childhood, he has written eleven books in fifteen years, from his autobiography Face to Face to Daddyji, his memoir of his father. Mamaji is a companion volume …

The six pieces collected here for the first time have been chosen by Ved Mehta from a decade of reportorial work for The New Yorker. They reflect, in different ways, he writes in the foreword, the wo …

Namaste. Vedi s father bade him the Hindu farewell. You are a man now. It was the first step in Ved Mehta s long journey toward independence. He was a month shy of five years old, and he was to spend …

To be at Oxford: the university had occupied Ved Mehta s imagination ever since he was a small, blind Hindu boy, during the British Raj. His quest for learning had taken him from India, where educati …

This is the true and intimate story of one man and his love of four women, each of them very different, but each in her turn the object of his hopes and desires. What does Ved Mehta want of these wom …

In the summer of 1943, an Indian public-health official (Daddyji) and his wife (Mamaji) were travelling with their six children to the Vale of Kashmir for a holiday. During a break in the journey, th …

In 1949, the fifteen-year-old Ved Mehta, who had been totally blind since the age of four, left his native India and travelled alone to Little Rock to attend the Arkansas School for the Blind. For th …

Unsurpassed as a prose stylist, Ved Mehta is an acknowledged master of the essay form. In this book the first special collection of Mehta s outstanding writing the distinguished author demonstrates a …

A Family Affair is a sequel to Ved Mehta s much acclaimed The New India. Together the two books recount the political history of India since Independence, in 1947. Mr. Mehta holds that India, althoug …

In this book, Ved Mehta tells the story hitherto obscured by a combination of censorship, propaganda, and ignorance of the new India that began in June, 1975, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, convi …

In this volume of a remarkable life story, Ved Mehta takes us through his college years an adventurous young adulthood in California. After his father a retired Indian-government health official mana …

There can seldom have been a more unpromising subject for a film or a book than Chachaji, and yet he became the hero of a celebrated documentary film, CHACHAJI, MY POOR RELATION: A MEMOIR BY VED MEHT …

It is immensely well done. Mr. Mehta has a real gift of exposition and an unusual one. He can give a creditable and a credible account, not only of ideas but of the people who begot them, with illumi …

For more than three decades, a quiet man some would say almost an invisible man dwelt at the center of American journalistic and literary life. He was William Shawn, the editor-in-chief of The New Yo …

This elegantly written book by the renowned author Ved Mehta is a chronicle of a tumultuous dozen years of recent Indian history from the unsettled conditions that preceded the assassination of Prime …

Ved Mehta s acclaimed Continents of Exile series ends where it began with a portrait of his father, Amolak Ram Mehta. But this, the final instalment of the eleven-book series, which has been appearin …

Ved Mehta and Adrian Wilson, both Mac Arthur Prize Fellows, met for the first time at a gathering of recipients of the award. Their conversation turned inevitably to their work to Ved Mehta s writing …

This definitive collection of Ved Mehta’s work contains excerpts from nearly all his writings, many of which first appeared in the New Yorker. It begins with his first book, the classic autobiography …

Portrait of India (1970) is a vivid account of 60s India and some of its most interesting figures Indira Gandhi, Jaya Prakash Narayan and Satyajit Ray, among others. Travelling across the country fro …

Blind since the age of four, Ved Mehta led a lonely and turbulent childhood in India until he was accepted to the Arkansas School for the Blind, to which he flew alone at fifteen. America and the sch …

Ved Mehta s book on Gandhi (1977) is one of the great portraits of the political leader. Travelling the world to talk to Gandhi s family, friends and followers, drawing his daily life in exacting det …

Daddyji is, at first glance, a biographical portrait of Amolak Ram Mehta, a distinguished Indian public-health officer, written by his son Ved Mehta, but in reality, as the story unfolds, it is seen …

Book 1 in Ved Mehta’s Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian fami …

Book 2 in Ved Mehta’s Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian fami …

Book 3 in Ved Mehta’s Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian fami …

Book 4 in Ved Mehta’s Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian fami …

Book 5 in Ved Mehta’s Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian fami …

Book 6 in Ved Mehta’s Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian fami …

Book 2 in Ved Mehta’s Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian fami …

Book 8 in Ved Mehta’s Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian fami …

Book 9 in Ved Mehta’s Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian fami …

Book 10 in Ved Mehta’s Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian fam …

The last volume of Ved Mehta’s Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an In …

Book 11 in Ved Mehta’s Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian fam …

Returning to 1960s’ India after decades beyond its borders, Ved Mehta explores his native country with two sets of eyes: those of the man educated in the West, and those of the child raised under the …

Ved Mehta’s brilliant Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles provides an unparalleled portrait of the man who lead India out of its colonial past and into its modern form. Travelling all over India and the …

Fly and the Fly Bottle is perhaps Ved Mehta’s masterpiece: a collection of his brilliantly revealing conversations with some of the twentieth century’s most important philosophers. Engaging with such …