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Introduction: Lightning and the lightning bug -- A battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence -- The train had just arrived at Malgudi Station -- Pastor Bonhoeffer -- City of dreadful night -- Nonviolence: Brahmacharya and goat's milk -- Naturalized citizen no. 984-5165 -- The benefactress -- In the force and road of casualty, Unsurpassed as a prose stylist, Ved Mehta is an acknowledged master of the essay from. 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, Mehta provides a splendid, insightful introduction on the craft of the essay, meditating on the long history and diverse purposes of the form and on the struggle of learning to write in it himself. In the eight reportorial, autobiographical, and reflective essays that follow -- each a self-contained examination of cultural, intellectual, or personal themes -- he writes on his experience of becoming an Am

Author

Mehta, Ved, 1934-

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300071894

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.33 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14