Ved Parkash Mehta (born 21 March 1934) is an Indian writer who was born in Lahore, British India (now a Pakistani city) to a Punjabi Hindu family.
He lost his sight at the age of three due to cerebrospinal meningitis.
Due to the limited prospects for blind people in general, his mother and father, Shanti Mehta and Amolak Ram Mehta, respectively, sent Ved over 1,300 miles away to the Dadar School for the Blind in Bombay (Current day Mumbai).