Throughout, Mehta provides vivid details of aspects of Indian history and culture, such as the impact of the accident at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, the debate between the judiciary and Muslim clerics over economic support of divorced Muslim women, the peculiarities of the Indian telephone system, and the effect of television and movies on Hindu revivalism. Mehta was a staff writer for ‘The New Yorker’ magazine for 33 years. He was sent to study in a school for the blind in Bombay, followed by another one in Arkansas, US. He was born in 1934 in Lahore, Pakistan, and lost his vision at the age of four. Singh in the 1989 election and his murder, by a secessionist Tamil group from Sri Lanka in 1991. Celebrated writer Ved Mehta passed away at the age of 86 in New York on January 9. The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease, his wife, Linn Cary Mehta, said. He goes on to reconstruct the circumstances surrounding Rajiv's election as his mother's successor the change in atmosphere from optimism to disenchantment as Rajiv's government became mired in a kickback scandal Rajiv's loss of office to V.P. 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. Gandhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards, and the anti-Sikh rioting that followed. Renowned writer Ved Mehta, who took India to Americans, dies at 86. He tells of the Sikhs' demand for special status, their uprising against the Hindus in the Punjab, the government's retaliation, the murder of Mrs. Born in Lahore in 1934, at the age of four he was blinded by cerebrospinal meningitis. Ved Mehta is a celebrated writer, and a man who overcame severe disability by sheer will power. Ved Mehta, a longtime author for The New Yorker whose best-known work, spanning a dozen volumes, explored the huge, turbulent historical past of contemporary India by the intimate lens of his personal autobiography, died on Saturday at his dwelling in Manhattan. Mehta begins by describing the politics that swirled around Indira Gandhi during the last two years of her life-in particular, the growing hostility among Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims. A member of the Society of Authors, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
As Mehta explores the impulses that brought about the political and economic changes between 19, he also reveals what life is like in modern India, giving us a memorable portrait of an enigmatic land. During the late 1960s, The New Yorker staff writer Ved Mehta (who died earlier this week at 86) began writing what would become the essay collection Portrait of India (1970). 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 Minister Indira Gandhi to the Hindu revival that followed the assassination of her son Rajiv.
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