Mehta, Ved Parkash (1934– )

Indian journalist. He was educated at blind schools in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, and the USA, and later at Oxford and Harvard. A staff writer for the New Yorker 1961–94 (he took US citizenship in 1975), he has written family and personal chronicles such as Daddyji (1971) and The Ledge between the Streams (1984), both part of his Continents of Exile series, as well as humane but deceptively mild-mannered essays on philosophical, theological, and historical issues collected in volumes such as Fly and the Fly-Bottle (1963).