The Essential Ved Mehta
Author | : Ved Mehta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 9780670087006 |
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Author | : Ved Mehta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 9780670087006 |
Author | : Ved Mehta |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2014-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9351185761 |
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 highlighting his blindness, Face to Face, and features his iconic books about India and his family saga, Continents of Exile. Each entry comes with a reflection by Mehta. Authoritative and illuminating, the book is not just an introduction to this seminal author but also a passionate record of a writer looking back upon his own work.
Author | : Ved Mehta |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2021-02-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 024150502X |
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 rest of the world, Mehta gives a nuanced and complex, yet vividly alive, portrait of Gandhi and of those men and women who were inspired by his actions.
Author | : Ved Mehta |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9351185729 |
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 school changed his life, leading to degrees at Oxford and Harvard Universities and a fruitful writing career. Face to Face (1957), Mehta’s first book, is the author’s autobiography touching upon childhood, blindness and remaking himself. It remains one of his most beloved works.
Author | : Ved Mehta |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 2021-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0241505011 |
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 Raj. Travelling from the Himalayas in the east to Kerala in the west, Ved Mehta's observations and insights into India and some of its most interesting figures - including Indira Gandhi, Jaya Prakash Narayan and Satyajit Ray - create one of the twentieth century's most thought-provoking travel memoirs.
Author | : Ved Mehta |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2021-02-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0241505038 |
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 heavyweights as Isaiah Berlin, Gilbert Ryle, and Elizabeth Anscombe, Mehta is not only able to shed light on the personalities involved in shaping modern philosophy, as well as on the particularities of that philosophic thought, but also to minutely examine the surrounding atmosphere of mid-century British life.
Author | : Ved Mehta |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9351185788 |
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 to be a recreation, in crystalline detail, of a whole world—the everyday life of pre-Partition Lahore. Daddyji (1972) is the first book in Mehta’s extraordinary series of memoirs, Continents of Exile.
Author | : Ved Mehta |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2013-12-03 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9351182754 |
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 appearing over the last thirty-two years, is its emotional crescendo, the story of the author’s discovery of his father’s affair with a married woman in the British India of the 1930s. The story has its origins in the 1960s, when Mehta by chance finds his father weeping uncontrollably on his mother’s shoulder during a New York dinner party. As a result, the son begins to unravel a family mystery that takes him on a painful and revealing voyage into his father’s British past in Simla, the magical hill station and summer capital of the Raj. Step by step, he is forced to confront his father’s passionate clandestine affair with Rasil, an exquisite beauty who in her teens was abducted from her poor family and raped. She was subsequently rescued by a Hindu philanthropist, only to end up trapped in an abusive marriage to a rich businessman. Years earlier, when the Daddyji of the story was working in the Punjab Himalayas as a medical student, he had met a young shepherdess on his rounds, and been intoxicated by her greenish-blue eyes, fair skin, golden hair, and the Nepalese lilt of her voice. At one moment, he caught sight of her concealed tattoo of the consort of Lord Krishna. She said that she, too, intended to marry the voluptuary deity. Some fifteen years later in Lahore, Dr. Mehta encounters a socialite whom he recognizes as the hill girl of his youth by her tattoo. They re-establish contact and in time become lovers. Their affair is kept alive by the exchange of love letters, or Red Letters—sublime if eccentric works in themselves—that Mehta’s father treasures for the remainder of his life as a memento of his enchanted time. Mehta’s exploration of his father’s love affair proves painful, as the son realizes that the entanglement, a passing episode in sixty-one years of a loving marriage, had shattering psychological side-effects on his mother—a close friend of Rasil’s—and also on his own life. The Red Letters is Mehta’s masterpiece, a work of extraordinary intensity that perfectly re-creates the exotic, closed world of British India. The appearance of this book is a major literary event, signalling the conclusion of Continents of Exile, one of the most remarkable literary achievements of the twentieth century.
Author | : Denise Shekerjian |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1991-02-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0140109862 |
Drawing on interviews with 40 winners of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship—the so-called "genius awards"—the insightful study throws fresh light on the creative process.
Author | : A. Mehrotra |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-09-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230228528 |
The first history of Indian literature in English to cover the 200 years from Raja Rammohan Ray to Arundhati Roy, including in its scope canonical poets and novelists, social reformers (Behramji Malabari), anthropologists (Verrier Elwin), nature writers (Sálim Ali), and writers of the Indian disapora (Seepersad Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul, Ved Mehta).