“You are a man now,” his father told Ved as he placed him on the train, in the care of a cousin, for the long journey. ‘If anyone stays there too long, the bathroom ghost will pounce on him and bite off his nose,’ he had said. ‘If he ever attacks you, just pray to Jesus, Mary and Joseph.’ “‘Who are they? What will they do to the ghost?’ “‘Jesus, Mary and Joseph live up in Heaven. “Because I grew up with six sighted brothers and sisters, I never thought the world should adapt to me,” Mr. Mehta told The Times in 2003.

Source: New York Times January 10, 2021 21:11 UTC