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Book Introduction:
    A sutra is a string of aphorisms on behaviour and philosophy.
    Mehta's narrator is a civil servant who renounces the world in
    order to meditate beside a sacred river. But he expands the notion
    of the sutra's wise and pithy sayings into a series of linked moral
    tales heard by the bureaucrat from pilgrims who come in search of
    enlightenment, forgiveness or justification. They include the story
    of a music teacher who believes he has murdered the thing he
    loves, a girl pursued by kidnappers, and a city gent who thinks
    himself possessed by spirits. This is a most agreeable, good-
    humoured way to learn about the many facets of Indian spirituality.

Author Biography:
    Gita Mehta (born in 1943) is an Indian writer and was born in Delhi
    in a renowned Oriya family of freedom fighters. She is the
    daughter of Biju Patnaik, an Indian independence activist and a
    Chief Minister in post-independence Orissa. Her younger brother
    Naveen Patnaik is presently the Chief Minister of Orissa. She
    completed her education in India and at the Cambridge University,
    United Kingdom.

    She has produced and/or directed 14 television documentaries for
    UK, European and U.S. networks. During the years 1970, 1971,
    she was a television war correspondent for the US television
    network NBC. Her film compilation of the Bangladesh revolution,
    Dateline Bangladesh, was shown in cinema theatres both in India
    and abroad.  

    Although being the wife of Sonny Mehta, head of the Alfred A.
    Knopf, Inc. publishing house, keeps her in the publishing limelight
    she has emerged a writer in her own right. Her books have been
    translated into 21 languages and been on the bestseller lists in
    Europe, the US and India. The subject of both her fiction and non-
    fiction is exclusively focused on India: its culture and history, and
    the Western perception of it. Her works reflect the insight gained
    through her journalistic and political background.
Title Suggested by Book Lover Rachel Fox:
    'A River Sutra' by Gita Mehat
    Publisher: Vintage (June 28, 1994)
    ISBN: 9780679752479
    Fiction: Literary
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