Mehta, the well-known Indian-born writer, affectionately relives his undergraduate years at Oxford's Balliol College in an amusing, wonderfully observant, self-deprecating memoir. Despite his constant ...

NEW DELHI — After more than three decades as a staff writer with The New Yorker, and writing more than two dozen books, Ved Mehta recently came full circle, returning to India for the launch of a ...

“Indian Journal—I: Forbidden to Come to the Shore” by Ved Mehta was published in the print edition of the September 9, 1967, issue of The New Yorker.

A Hindu who was born in the Vale of Kashmir twenty-five years ago and blinded by meningitis at the age of three, VED MEHTAcame alone to the United States when he was fifteen to attend the Arkansas ...

The Centre for the Creative and the Critical, Ashoka University, and Balliol College, Oxford have announced The Ved Mehta International Prize in Creative Nonfiction, an international book award in ...

In 1996, an obscure, retired New York schoolteacher named Frank McCourt published Angela’s Ashes, the story of his childhood in Ireland. The book became a best seller, won a Pulitzer, was turned into ...