The Stolen Light (1969) is the sixth volume of Ved Prakash Mehta’s riveting autobiography Continents of Exile, which deals primarily with his experiences at Pomona College, California, in the 1950s. This marks the phase of Mehta’s life when, despite his blindness, he tried to carry on the everyday life of an undergraduate student. This included, among other things, quotidian chores like joining a fraternity, bicycling, the experience of owning and driving a car and dating or trying to date some of the most attractive girls on campus. The title of the volume is self-reflective in the sense that it comments, directly and cryptically, on Mehta’s blindness that ensued from his childhood attack of cerebrospinal meningitis at the age of three, which left him blinded and disabled. However, the volume also can be approached as a lyrical narrative that describes the disabled student’s problems in finding people to read to him and sponsors to pay for his expenses, the suicide of his closest friend, and his father’s perplexing association with a wealthy woman to whom he was like a court physician.