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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 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 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 · 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 17, 2023 · Gita Mehta, renowned writer-filmmaker passed away on Saturday in New Delhi. Mehta, who died at 80, was the sister of Odisha's Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and daughter of Biju Patnaik.
Sep 23, 2023 · As a writer, documentary film-maker and effortlessly charming host in New York, London and New Delhi, she had a gift for belonging everywhere, bringing disparate worlds together...
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 16, 2023 · Gita Mehta, known for her literary works as well as documentaries, passed away on Saturday, September 16, in Delhi. The popular writer and documentary filmmaker was 80 years of age. She was the elder sister of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
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...
Sep 16, 2023 · An eminent author, documentary filmmaker, and journalist, Gita Mehta was the elder sister of Naveen Patnaik and businessman Prem Patnaik. Born in 1943 to Biju Patnaik and Gyan Patnaik in Delhi, she studied in India and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
