A month shy of his fifth birthday, Ved Mehta was sent 1300 miles from
home to Dadar School for the Blind-- really an orphanage in Bombay
run by a Christian minister with Western ideas about education.
Blinded by meningitis, Vedi faced the grim life of the blind in
India. It was an act that required a great strength, a father sending
a child to a foster home, but from it Vedi learned self-reliance. His
career is testimony to the correctness of that decision. "Vedi had
all the experiences of ordinary childhood, but ceased being a child
before he was five. Thus in the narratives two voices emerge: the
child and the adult. When the child speaks, grim events seem innocent
and funny. But when the adult speaks, even ordinary moments seem sad,
reflected in a memory that brings together past and present with
bittersweet eloquence." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)
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