His first Mothers and Sons which, as the name suggests, explores the relationship between mothers and their sons, was published in 2006 and was reviewed favourably (including by Pico Iyer in The New York Times).
He was survived by his wife Nandini Mehta Iyer, and son Pico Iyer (b. 1957), a noted writer.
Pico Iyer, a journalist whose father is a friend of the Dalai Lama and who has himself been in private conversation with him for over thirty years writes: "Almost as soon as he came into exile, in 1959, the Dalai Lama seized the chance to get rid of much of the red tape and serfdom that had beset Tibet in the past".
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama is a 2008 book by Pico Iyer.
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