In the summer of 1943, an Indian public-health official (Daddyji) and his wife (Mamaji) were traveling with their six children to the Vale of Kashmir for a holiday. During a break in the journey, their blind nine-year-old son, Ved the author of this exquisitely composed memoir heard water flowing and asked about it. He was told there were two streams, one clear, the other muddy. He said he wanted to see them for himself, and the family climbed down into a gorge where a narrow ledge separated the icy torrents of the Jhelum, a powerful river fed by the snows of the Himalayas, from a tepid, sluggish local stream. Ved squatted down on the ledge and put a hand in each stream. A cloudburst suddenly caused the Jhelum River to rise, and the Mehtas barely scrambled out of the gorge with their lives.

Ledge Between the Streams

Biographies & Memoirs

MEHTA, Ved.

Arts & Literature

HarperCollins Distribution Services

The autobiography of a man in India, blind since birth and growing up during the last years of British rule, the tragedy of Partition, the conflicts between Muslims and Hindus, his journey to a new life in the United states, much more, reflecting the anguish of being blind amidst all these changes and sufferings, offering hope and insights to the modern world.

Face to Face

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

Penguin Putnam~trade

The New India

History

Asia

Penguin??Books

Based on extensive interviews with virtually every living associate of the Indian leader, this scholarly portrait reveals the humanity as well as the beliefs and amazing achievements of Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles

Leaders & Notable People

The Essential Ved Mehta [Paperback] [Dec 28, 2014] VED MEHTA

Penguin books.India

FACE TO FACE.

Oxford University

DADDYJI is Ved Mehta's autobiography dealing primarily with his father, Amolak Ram Mehta, senior member of the clan and a British-trained physician.  "The picture of Amolak Ram that emerges from this memoir is that of a remarkable man, one possessed of great courage and virtue. The book's value lies in the fact that Ved Mehta translates an individual experience into one that is universal." (Saturday Review)  "Delightful...conceived as a series of cameos of village and urban family life from the end of the last century to the end of the first 40 years of this, DADDYJI is intimate, personal, as well as a history of modern India in the making." (The Times, London)

Daddyji

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Oxford Univiversity Press

Recounts the filming of a documentary about the daily life of the author's second cousin, an eighty-three-year-old pharmacy clerk in New Delhi

The Photographs of Chachaji: The Making of a Documentary Film

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press

The author describes his life in India as a young child and his education at the Dadar School for the Blind

Vedi

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Recounts the filming of a documentary about the daily life of the author's second cousin, an eighty-three-year-old pharmacy clerk in New Delhi

Photographs of Chachaji: The Making of a Documentary Film

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Oxford Univ. Pr.

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