Books by Madan Vasishta

In 1952, after two weeks of typhoid fever and mumps, 11-year-old Madan Vasishta awoke one night to discover that he could no longer hear. He was horrified because in India, the word "deaf" described someone who was not really human. This autobiography reveals how his boundless optimism enabled him to persist and prevail.

In the ninth volume of the Deaf Lives series, Madan Vasishta picks up where he left off in his first memoir, Deaf in Delhi, to describe his life as a student at Gallaudet University, his observations of American life, and his convoluted rise to become a professor at his alma mater.