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Ved Mehta
Ved Mehta and his family on Islesboro, ME 1987 Email to friend
The Hindu life cycle dictates that a man's first 25 years should be devoted to learning; and that the next 25 years are for raising a family. The writer Ved Mehta has his own rather loose interpretation of that timeline.
He was born in Lahore in 1934, was through the halls of Oxford, had published his first book, and started a career writing for The New Yorker by the time he turned 25. But it would be another 25 years before he got down to the business of raising a family, though not for a lack of trying.
Mehta chronicles part of that journey in the tenth installment of his autobiographical, "Continents of Exile" series. It is a book about the nightmares of building a dream house on an enchanted island; a book about what a blind man sees that the sighted never will.
