Vedi (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ved Mehta
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1939-1943
- Setting: Lahore and Bombay, India
- Principal Characters: Ved Mehta, Mr. Ras Mohun, Mrs. Mohun
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Memory, Blindness or blind persons, Schools or school life, Manners or customs, India or East Indian people, Youth, Caste systems
Form and Content
Though blinded at the age of three by meningitis, the Indian-born writer Ved Mehta has always been relentlessly self-reliant. After his first book, the autobiographical Face to Face (1957), Mehta ignored the subject of his blindness. He joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1961 and focused his attention on postcolonial India, especially its political situation. He went so far in his refusal to make any concession to his blindness as to keep mention of it off the dust jackets of his books. Starting in 1972, however, he began a...
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