A Ved Mehta Reader

Unsurpassed as a prose stylist, Ved Mehta is an acknowledged master of the essay form. In this book - the first special collection of Mehta's outstanding writings - the distinguished author demonstrates a wide range of possibilities available to the narrative and descriptive writer today. Addressing subjects that range from religion to politics and on to education, and writing with eloquence and high style, Mehta here offers a sampling of his works.

Ved Mehta was a staff writer on The New Yorker from 1961 to 1994. He held the Rosenkranz chair in writing at Yale University, 1990-93; was Visiting Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, 1988-89; and has taught literature and history at other colleges and universities, among them Williams and Vassar.

Author's Note	p. vii
Introduction: Lightning and the Lightning Bug	p. xi
A Battle Against the Bewitchment of Our Intelligence	p. 1
The Train Had Just Arrived at Malgudi Station	p. 66
Pastor Bonhoeffer	p. 91
City of Dreadful Night	p. 163
Nonviolence: Brahmacharya and Goat's Milk	p. 245
Naturalized Citizen No. 984-5165	p. 281
The Benefactress	p. 303
In the Force and Road of Casualty	p. 357
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