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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. |
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| November Book Club 'A River Sutra' by Gita Mehta Publisher: Vintage Paperback 2007/05/03 ISBN: 9780099515944 Fiction: Literary |
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