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Gita Mehta (born in 1943) is an Indian writer and was born in Delhi in a well-known Odia family. She is the daughter of Biju Patnaik, an Indian independence activist and a Chief Minister in post-independence Odisha, then known as Orissa. Her younger brother Naveen Patnaik has been the Chief Minister of Odisha since 2000. She completed her education in India and at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

She has produced and/or directed 14 television documentaries for UK, European and US 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.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 4,869 ratings · 430 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors

	A River Sutra 3.90 avg rating — 2,543 ratings — published 1993 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East 3.53 avg rating — 1,066 ratings — published 1979 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Raj 3.71 avg rating — 810 ratings — published 1989 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India 3.64 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 1997 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eternal Ganesha 4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	O monge endinheirado, a mulher do bandido e outras histórias de um rio indiano by Gita Mehta, Hildegard Feist (-Translator), Jeff Fisher (Goodreads Author) (-Illustrator) 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The extraordinary thing about inventing a persona is that one is loathe to give it up, especially if the fiction sits comfortably.”
― Gita Mehta, A River Sutra

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“In his attempt to frighten me, my father had made me realize that to prevent suffering a man must be capable of suffering, that a man who cannot suffer is not alive.”
― Gita Mehta, A River Sutra

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“Without desire there is no life. Everything will stand still. Become emptiness. In fact sir, be dead.”
― Gita Mehta

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