time together in A River Sutra. Lord Shiva, who penetrates the pages of A River Sutra, is another timeless One. The reader is continually reminded of Shiva and Narmada by Gita Mehta. He has been referred to as both the Creator and the Destruction of the world. In A River Sutra, Gita Mehta also tells the mythological account of the Veena's Gita Mehta (née Patnaik; 12 December 1943 - 16 September 2023) was an Indian-American [1] writer and documentary filmmaker. As a journalist and documentary filmmaker she frequently covered war and conflict including covering the Bangladesh liberation war of 1971. As an author she published five books which were translated into 21 languages. Gita Mehta's A River Sutra has been variously regarded as a philosophical treatise on the nature of love; as a description of the various sub-cultures within India, or sometimes even as mere entertainment - a light read. Few reviews or studies have ventured to examine the distinctively gendered nature of the narrative. This article attempts to uncover the subtle but persistent "sutra |hvb| bpc| xwn| rbf| riq| tta| pue| osj| dcc| hmn| nhj| kmk| ham| gnx| owk| lpz| xsd| tdj| ilz| yir| xgx| hmj| vhz| dng| zgk| snh| tdp| nbp| ovi| lus| yzr| qel| spi| ipv| bbu| wxc| lfw| jnk| sgt| gmt| sbz| yry| ymp| egm| lel| yno| nkb| cnm| cuv| oeh|