A Handful of Stories

Reportage on health, science and politics. And some meditations on film

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Why Ved Mehta Writes a 100 Drafts

The stories writer Ved Mehta—polite even when he edits your English, soft-spoken, precise in speech—tells you in person are very often anecdotes you would find recounted in his enviably large body of work. Or observations he has made in other interviews, which can be found handily collated on his website. There are also some marvellous, fantastical anecdotes that make an…