Author Gita Mehta releases her book 'Snakes and Ladders'

In 1970 she was popularly known as documentary film maker. She was one who filmed the Bangladesh war for NBC. Now-a-days she left journalism and coming up as an author. After writing Karma Cola, Raj and River Sutra, Gita Mehta is coming up with her new book 'Snakes and Ladders'. She says I wanted to write about post colonial view and my definition of post colonial is this is hat we are false and all. And any false that exist in India today we can no longer make excuses about historical reason. They are of are our own making. So I wanted to give a picture of modern India.

Gita Mehta is a writer known, perhaps, more for her essays than her novels. She is also a documentary filmmaker and a journalist. These activities all share a focus on India, the country of her birth—its history, politics, and cultures. The same concerns inform her novels: Raj, a historical novel set during the early stages of India's struggle for independence from Britain, and A River Sutra, a modern revisitation of prevalent traditions of Indian aesthetic and philosophical thought.

Mehta has made a number of documentary films about India, covering the Bangladesh war, the Indo-Pakistan war, and the elections in the former Indian princely states. Her essays, as represented by two collections, Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East and Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India, muse on things Indian, from politics and social unrest, the endless clash of religions and cultures, spirituality, and the Indian textile industry to Indian literature and film, and so on. The style of the essays is personal and lucid, often bitingly clear and always honest. This same lucid immediacy and intimacy marks A River Sutra. Raj, lacking this intimate voice, is a more distanced work, valuable rather for its meticulous and even-handed grasp of a complex and important period in history.

Source: biography.jrank.org/

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