fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009. He received honorary degrees from Pomona College, Bard College, Williams College, the University of Stirling, and Bowdoin College. In Popular Culture The 2021 American anthology comedy film The French Dispatch by director Wes Anderson mentioned Ved Mehta as one of the inspirations for his film, among other writers & editors of The New Yorker in the film's final credit rolling scene. See also Indians in the New York City metropolitan region New Yorkers in journalism References Sources External links 1934 births 2021 deaths 20th-century Indian novelists 20th-century Indian male writers Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Indian blind people Blind writers Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Harvard University alumni Indian autobiographers Indian emigrants to the United States Indian male novelists MacArthur Fellows Pomona College alumni The New Yorker people Writers from Lahore American people of Punjabi descent