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Ved Mehta (Ved Parkash Mehta) was born on 21 March, 1934 in Lahore, British India, is an Indian-American writer (1934-2021). Discover Ved Mehta's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

Popular As Ved Parkash Mehta
Occupation Writer · journalist
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 21 March, 1934
Birthday 21 March
Birthplace Lahore, British India
Date of death 9 January, 2021
Died Place Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Nationality India

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1894

His parents were Shanti (Mehra) Mehta and Amolak Ram Mehta (1894–1986), a senior public health official in the government of India.

Ved lost his sight at the age of three due to cerebrospinal meningitis.

Due to the limited prospects for blind people at that time, his parents sent him over 1300 mi away to the Dadar School for the Blind in Bombay (present-day Mumbai).

1934

Ved Parkash Mehta (21 March 19349 January 2021) was an Indian-born writer who lived and worked mainly in the United States.

Mehta was born on 21 March 1934 in Lahore, British India (now in Pakistan), to a Punjabi Hindu family.

1949

Beginning around 1949, he attended the Arkansas School for the Blind.

1956

Mehta received a BA from Pomona College in 1956; a BA from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1959, where he read modern history; and an MA from Harvard University in 1961.

While at Pomona, as very few books were available in Braille, Mehta used student readers, one of whom was Eugene Rose, who went on to become the Russian Orthodox hieromonk Seraphim Rose.

Mehta referred to him in two books, one of which was Stolen Light, his second book of memoirs: "I felt very lucky to have found Gene as a reader. ... He read with such clarity that I almost had the illusion that he was explaining things."

1957

His first book, an autobiography called Face to Face, which placed his early life in the context of Indian politics, history and Anglo-Indian relations, was published in 1957; its narrative ends around the time Mehta enrolled at Pomona.

1961

He was a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1961 to 1994.

One of the articles he wrote for The New Yorker in 1961 consisted of interviews with Oxford philosophers.

A volume of the letters of one of those philosophers, Isaiah Berlin, contains an honest response to Mehta's inquiry about the reactions of his subjects: "You ask me what the reactions of my colleagues are to your piece on Oxford Philosophy... [T]hose to whom I have spoken are in various degrees outraged or indignant ... The New Yorker is a satirical magazine, and I assume from the start that a satire was intended and not an accurate representation of the truth. In any case, only a serious student of philosophy could attempt to do that."

1962

The article was published as a book, now including other public intellectuals, as Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals (1962).

1966

Mehta published his first novel, Delinquent Chacha, in 1966.

It was serialized in The New Yorker.

He subsequently wrote more than 24 books, including several that deal with the subject of blindness, as well as hundreds of articles and short stories, for British, Indian and American publications.

1971

Mehta received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1971 and 1977.

1972

Blind from an early age, Mehta is best known for an autobiography published in instalments from 1972 to 2004.

He wrote for The New Yorker for many years.

Mehta's autobiography, titled Continents of Exile, was published in 12 instalments between 1972 and 2004.

Its first volume, Daddyji (1972), is part autobiography and part biography of Mehta's father.

1975

Mehta became an American citizen in 1975.

1978

A 1978 profile by Madhur Jaffrey wrote that Mehta regarded himself as "part Indian", "part English", "part American", and as an "expatriate".

Mehta died on 9 January 2021, with complications from Parkinson's disease.

1982

A 1982 profile, published after Mehta was announced as a MacArthur Fellow, stated that he had "gained critical note as a weaver of profiles, as an interviewer who can interpret character and context in the exchange of words with a subject. He is scholarly and journalistic and, above all, a man who thinks things out."

He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1982, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.

He received honorary degrees from Pomona College, Bard College, Williams College, the University of Stirling, and Bowdoin College.

The 2021 American anthology comedy film The French Dispatch by director Wes Anderson mentioned Ved Mehta as one of the inspirations for his film, among other writers & editors of The New Yorker in the film's final credit rolling scene.

1983

In 1983 he married Linn Fenimore Cooper Cary, the daughter of William Lucius Cary and Katherine Lemoine Fenimore Cary; his wife's mother was a descendant of James Fenimore Cooper and the niece of Mehta's former New Yorker colleague, Henry Sage Fenimore Cooper, Jr.

1989

In 1989, Jennet Conant produced an article for Spy reflecting on the alleged decline in quality of the New Yorker after the departure of editor William Shawn; recounting criticism of the new editor's "peculiar hobbies" including collecting "aluminium tumblers and plastic handbags", mockery and attacking of "previously untouchable" journalists including Renata Adler and Janet Malcolm, and the fact that "the legions of loyal, tight-lipped young women- the secretaries, typists, fact-checkers and editorial assistants" had begun to "talk. Well, moan, really. Sob. Whine. Wail and complain" about "old wounds and ... past injustices", particularly those who were employed to "painstakingly transcribe" what Conant considered the "long-winded, self-obsessed, Oxford-educated English prose" of Mehta, who the article also accused of being unduly demanding and critical of the young women thus employed, asking them personal questions about their habits and lives.

He left the magazine after, as he claimed, he was "terminated" by editor Tina Brown.