Ved Mehta

Born in Lahore and educated in India, the USA and Britain, Ved Mehta is a gifted writer. With total honesty he explores his feelings towards four women he loved from the 1970's. He also examines his feelings about his blindness.

In 1949, 15-year-old Ved went to America to attend the Arkansas School for the Blind. In the three years there he refused to acknowledge gloomy predictions for his future made by 'specialists', and learnt to get around Little Rock himself by perceiving objects and terrain by means of 'sound-shadows'.

The author's experiences as a blind undergraduate at Oxford in the 1950s.

Blind author's problems in coping with college in U.S.A.