Mehta died on 9 January 2021, with complications from Parkinson's disease.
Ī 1978 profile by Madhur Jaffrey wrote that Mehta regarded himself as "part Indian", "part English", "part American", and as an " expatriate". 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. Mehta became an American citizen in 1975. Its first volume, Daddyji (1972), is part autobiography and part biography of Mehta's father. Mehta's autobiography, titled Continents of Exile, was published in 12 instalments between 19. In any case, only a serious student of philosophy could attempt to do that." The article was published as a book, now including other public intellectuals, as Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals (1962). 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. hose to whom I have spoken are in various degrees outraged or indignant. 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. One of the articles he wrote for The New Yorker in 1961 consisted of interviews with Oxford philosophers. He left the magazine after, as he claimed, he was "terminated" by editor Tina Brown. He is scholarly and journalistic and, above all, a man who thinks things out." In 1989, Spy published a critical article about his misogynist attitude toward his assistants and writings that were frequently regarded as dull and self-indulgent. Ī 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 was a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1961 to 1994. 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. Mehta published his first novel, Delinquent Chacha, in 1966.
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. He read with such clarity that I almost had the illusion that he was explaining things." Literary career 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. 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 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. Beginning around 1949, he attended the Arkansas School for the Blind. Due to the limited prospects for blind people at that time, his parents sent him over 1,300 miles (2,100 km) away to the Dadar School for the Blind in Bombay (present-day Mumbai). Ved lost his sight at the age of three due to cerebrospinal meningitis. His parents were Shanti (Mehra) Mehta and Amolak Ram Mehta (1894–1986), a senior public health official in the government of India. Mehta was born on 21 March 1934 in Lahore, British India (now in Pakistan) to a Punjabi Hindu family.
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