Ved Mehta was born in 1934 and died in 2021. He was educated at both Harvard and Oxford following which he pursued life as a writer (something he had not considered doing), travelling and writing for New Yorker magazine. He has written many books the first of which was published when he was just twenty years old.
‘When I was seeing Kilty (how, even today, the word 'seeing' mesmerizes me), the fact of my blindness was never mentioned, referred to, or alluded to’.
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