![]() His lucid and incisive book is mandatory reading for those who wish to understand India today. Mehta explored the vast, turbulent history of modern India through the intimate lens of his own autobiography, the New York Times wrote in its obituary. 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, a New Yorker magazine staff writer, has written more than a dozen books about his native India, his blindness from the age of 3, his fascination with Western philosophers and. Ved Mehta, Celebrated Writer for The New Yorker, Dies at 86. Singh in the 1989 election and his murder, by a secessionist Tamil group from Sri Lanka in 1991. Ved Mehta, Celebrated Writer for The New Yorker, Dies at 86. 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. ![]() Gandhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards, and the anti-Sikh rioting that followed. 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. Mehta provides an unparalleled glimpse into the inner workings of the one of worlds most famous magazines. CAREER: New Yorker magazine, New York, NY, staff writer, 196194. Mehta, who has written incisively about India for The New Yorker and has done a series of novels about himself and his family, says that he feels that the U.S. In writings both personal and political, Mehta explores the dramatic changes his native India has undergone in the last century by tracing his family’s transformations and his own adaptation to the alien culture of America. 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. Mehta, Ved 1934(Ved Parkash Mehta) Source for information on Mehta, Ved 1934. Ved Mehta is a writer of autobiography, biography, journalism, and fiction. ![]() 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. 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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