Introduction
Ved Mehta worked as a writer and editor. He went blind when he was three and a half years old, in 1937. He became blind because of the prolonged attack of meningitis and began living in a world of four senses.
Content
Ved Mehta's mother could not able to accept that her son's sight would not return, she invited pandits and hakims to perform rituals and she treated his eyes with special medications. His mother kept all these things concealed because she knows that his father dislikes and frowns upon on these techniques. Ved Mehta’s eyes burnt and hurt by the surmas, which was the delivered at all hours of day and night and the only thing that made the agony tolerable mother’s lovingness and Care. Ved Mehta’s father overheard him and interfered one day when he was protesting loudly. He warned his mother that she could not return to the hakims or buy anymore surmas. He went on to give him the best medical care and treatment possible.
Ved Mehta says that a blind person is at ease because he as they does not have to worry about many things that sighted people do. Even though his age and illness had deprived him of his treasured recollections of sight. he recognized that many things seen uttered in the lives of sighted people are worthless phrases. His father persisted and researched for the future of blind people. He discovered that almost all of India's Blind people had turned to begging for a living or had opened Pan and Biri shops. He determined that this would not be his second son's fate. he began corresponding with educational authorities, seeking their advice. But educational facilities are limited for the blind.
Conclusion
His father does not want his son to be pampered and spoiled in home. he enrolled him at Bombay's Dadar School for the blind. Ved Mehta's Mother was not interested to send him to the school which is nine hundred miles away to attend with orphans and people from lowest socioeconomic levels. but she trusted his father's greater judgement and consented silently.
