The Essential Ved Mehta
Author: Ved Mehta
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780670087006
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The Essential Ved Mehta
Author: Ved Mehta
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2014-12-01
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9351185761
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles
Author: Ved Mehta
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2021-02-04
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 024150502X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Face to Face
Author: Ved Mehta
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2013-12-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9351185729
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Portrait of India
Author: Ved Mehta
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2021-02-04
Total Pages: 622
ISBN-13: 0241505011
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Daddyji
Author: Ved Mehta
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2013-12-15
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9351185788
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Fly and the Fly-Bottle
Author: Ved Mehta
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2021-02-04
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0241505038
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Walking The Indian Streets
Author: Ved Mehta
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781015540071
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Portrait of India
Author: Ved Mehta
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780300055382
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stretching from the snowcapped Himalayas to the droughtprone state of Tamil Nadu, India is a vast and enigmatic country, full of contrasts. Portrait of India presents Ved Mehta's impressions of his native land - his first-hand report on India's villages and cities, its religions, politics and wars, its poets, philosophers, maharajas, and priests. Published in 1970 and now reissued with a new preface by its author, the book evokes the enormous variety of India for the Western reader.
Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles
Author: Ved Mehta
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780300055399
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Millions of words have been written about Mahatma Gandhi, yet he remains an elusive figure, an abstraction to the Western mind. In this book Ved Mehta brings Gandhi to life in all his holiness and humanness, shedding light on his principles and his purposes, his ideas and his actions. Through interviewing disciples of Gandhi in five countries, Mehta reconstructs in precise detail Gandhi's daily routine, recounts the story of his life, and presents the beliefs and practices of his apostles. Mehta's book, widely praised when it was first published in 1977, is a biographical portrait of Gandhi.
