A River Sutra

A sequence of stories about the curious characters passing through an Indian riverside community by the bestselling author of Raj.

I have a feeling, indeed a hope, that A River Sutra will become a classic, revered and enjoyed by young and old

Superb, profound, apparently effortless storytelling

Enchanting...sometimes comic, sometimes tragic and always filled with insights

Gita Mehta is the author of three works of non-ficiton, Karma Cola, Raj: A Novel, Snakes and Ladders and Eternal Ganesha, and two works of fiction, Raj and A River Sutra. She lives in New York, London and India.

Gita Mehta's captivating and enchanting novel tells the story of a retired beurocrat who has escaped the world to spend his twilight years running a guest-house on the banks of the country's holiest river, the Narmada. But he has chosen the wrong place for peace and quiet: too many lives converge here and he meets a series of unusual characters including a privileged young executive bewitched by a mysterious lover; a novice Jain monk moving from opulence to poverty; and a woman with a golden voice and a broken heart. 
 
As the beurocrat moves from story to story he ponders the meaning of each tale and the potent belief and the dark secrets which the river hides within her.

Snakes And Ladders

In addition to her books Karma Cola, Raj, A River Sutra and Snakes and Ladders, Gita Metha has written articles for a number of Indian, European and American magazines, and filmed documentaries for European and American television. Her books have been translated into thirteen languages and published in twenty-seven countries. She lives in New York, London and India.

With a novelist's eye for detail and colour, Gita Mehta writes of the continent of contradictions that is host to one-sixth of the world's population. The world's largest democracy, it still practices the caste system. It's a burgeoning economic superpower, and one of the poorest nations on earth. It has the world's largest film industry, and the world's oldest religions. It is an ancient civilisation celebrating fifty years as a modern nation, entering a new international order many believe will belong to China and India. Now as never before, the world wants to know what contemporary India is all about.

Gita Mehta

Richly decorated and densely worked... oversewn like a length of brocade with sex, landscape, polo, politics, tragedy

Gita Mehta is such a natural story teller

Born a princess of the Royal Household of Balmer, Jaya Singh is torn between the traditions of her upbringing and the ideals of the Mahatma, as India draws inexorably towards the bloody struggle for independence from the British Raj. 
 
To fulfil her role as the guardian of the people, Jaya must first win her own freedom - then lead her kingdom through treacherous changes of history to the moment when palace and country will triumph over destiny. 
 
Grounded in details of ancient royal tradition and Hindu ritual, Jaya's story counterpoints a vanished way of life against the complex political realities involved in the passing of the Raj and the birth of the modern nations of India and Pakistan.

Gita Mehta

Praise for Raj

Richly decorated and densely worked... oversewn like a length of brocade with sex, landscape, polo, politics, tragedy

Gita Mehta is such a natural story teller

Mehta's talent is sharp as a laser beam

Richly decorated and densely worked... oversewn like a length of brocade with sex, landscape, polo, politics, tragedy

Gita Mehta is such a natural story teller

Mehta's talent is sharp as a laser beam

Richly decorated and densely worked... oversewn like a length of brocade with sex, landscape, polo, politics, tragedy

Gita Mehta is such a natural story teller

Mehta's talent is sharp as a laser beam

Books by Gita Mehta

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