All for Love Author:Ved Mehta One of the literary world's most versatile and surprising writers (and famously private about his personal life) tells a hair-raising story of four beautiful women who drove him to extremes of hope and despair. As I sit down to write this letter, I scarcely know how to address you. Love' or darling' or sweetheart' belong to the... more » distant past. Yet each of you lives in my memory the way you were... I was prompted to write this book about each of you because of a long and profound interior journey that I started and that has altered my life. And yet, strangely, it was not taken alone. All of you came along with me.... By publishing an account of our private romantic relationships, I am taking the strangers who will read it into my confidence. They will sit in judgment on us--on what was done, what was said, and what was not said. But if there is any embarrassment at the revelations in the text, or blame for all the things that went horribly wrong, it will attach only to me.... When we were seeing each other (how, even today, the word seeing' mesmerizes me), the fact of my blindness was never mentioned, referred to, or alluded to. I now understand that, at the time, I was in the grip of the fantasy that I could see.« less