Ved Parkash Mehta is a writer who was born in Lahore, British India (now a Pakistani city) to a Hindu family. He lost his sight at the age of four to cerebrospinal meningitis. Because of the limited prospects for blind people in general, his father, Amolak Ram Mehta, a doctor, sent him over 1,300 miles away to the Dadar School for the Blind in Bombay.
