“Ved Mehta has established himself as one of the magazine’s most imposing figures,” The New Yorker’s storied editor William Shawn, who hired him as a staff writer in 1961, told The New York Times in 1982. Norman Mailer was reported to have charged that Mehta was not completely blind, threatening to punch him in the face. But there was no trick to the keen visuality of his writing, Mehta said, beyond minute reporting, plumbing the inner depths of memory and the adroit use of the four senses at his disposal. She survives him, along with their two daughters, Sage Mehta Robinson and Dr Natasha Mehta; his sisters, Promila Mehrotra and Urmila Singh; and two grandchildren. ‘Tap-Tap here comes a blind boy from the blind school — look out!’ the cane seemed to shout.”So he broke the cane in two.

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