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Gita Mehta (née Patnaik; 12 December 1943 – 16 September 2023) was an Indian-American writer and documentary filmmaker. As a journalist and documentary filmmaker she frequently covered war and conflict including covering the Bangladesh liberation war of 1971.
Sep 21, 2023 · Gita Mehta, whose books examined the impact of Western culture on modern India and vice versa, bringing an Indian and a woman’s perspective to subject matter that was long the province of white...
Sep 17, 2023 · Eminent author and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's elder sister Gita Mehta died at her Delhi residence on Saturday due to old age ailments. She was 80, and is survived by her son. Her publisher husband Sonny Mehta had predeceased her.
Sep 17, 2023 · Gita Mehta’s writings, as she testified in the aforementioned 2002 interview to her publishers, were rooted in a love for the Indian street while brimming with an unsentimental air of critique. She was unafraid to criticise India and those looking down on India – as is apparent with her many stories that assumed the role of bureaucrats ...
Sep 23, 2023 · Her colourful books and intrepid reporting sidestepped stereotypes of India in favour of a more nuanced portrait. Gita Mehta in 1997. ‘I wanted to write a postcolonial book which was not an ...
Sep 17, 2023 · Renowned author, filmmaker, and journalist Gita Mehta passed away at the age of 80 in New Delhi. She was the elder sister of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
Sep 22, 2023 · Gita Mehta, whose incisive novels and nonfiction books subverted Western stereotypes while exploring the history, culture and contradictions of modern India, died Sept. 16 at her home...
Sep 17, 2023 · Gita Mehta, renowned writer-filmmaker and the sister of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, passed away on Saturday in New Delhi. The author, who died at 80, is survived by her son.
Sep 22, 2023 · Gita Mehta, whose books transformed Western ideas on India, died today at her home in New Delhi. She was 80. Nicholas Latimer, a vice president and director of publicity at Knopf, where Ms....
Sep 27, 2023 · Gita Mehta, who has died aged 80, was admired as a novelist and as the author of books about her native India – the India seen from the inside by a returned emigrée, and the India as sold...
