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“Ved Mehta’s Continent of Blind Culture: Challenges in reading the narrative domain using conventional frameworks in diasporic theory”, a talk by Dr. Hemachandran Karah, Faculty at The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi was held on 22 June 2013 at CSSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University. The talk was based on ‘Continent of Blind Culture’, a narrative domain in Ved Mehta’s autobiography. As a sensorium, the Continent of blind culture binds together rest of the narrative domains, also known as Continents. These are the Continents of India, Britain, America, The New Yorker, a psychoanalysis. Clearly, the Continent signifies much more than a lexical definition. It signifies a social scape, a cultural event, memory, the craft of writing, and at times, a geographical mass. The Continent of blind culture or culture of t