New York: Well-known Bharatvanshi(Indian) writer Ved Mehta died at the age of 86. Mehta never let his blindness become his weakness and became known as a famous 20th-century writer. He introduced the American people to Bharat with his creations. The magazine ‘New Yorker’ reported his death on Saturday. Mehta was associated with the magazine for about 33 years.
“Mehta, who has been associated with the New Yorker for more than 30 years, died on Saturday morning at the age of 86,” the magazine said. Born into a thriving Punjabi family in pre-partition Lahore in 1934, Mehta lost his eyesight at the age of three due to meningitis.
However, he never let blindness come in the way of his career, nor did it prevent him from showing his creativity to the world. He showed the world around him with great precision and precision. His 12-digit memoir ‘Continents of Exile’, based on his early struggle due to the history and blindness of modern India, became very famous and his first number ‘Daddy’. He wrote 24 books. These include reports on India.
His ‘Walking the Indian Streets’ (1960), ‘Portrait of India’ (1970), and ‘Mahatma Gandhi and His Apasal’ (1977). In addition, he wrote several works on philosophy, theology, and linguistics. Mehta was awarded the ‘Genius Joint’ of the MacArthur Foundation in 1982. Mehta came to America at the age of 15 and attended the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock. After studying at Pomona College and the University of Oxford, he focused on writing.
