Open AccessPostcolonialism at its Unabashed Best: Reading Gita Mehta’s The River Sutra
Author(s) -
Aparajita Hazra
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
global journal of human social science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2249-460X
DOI - 10.34257/gjhssavol20is17pg27
Subject(s) - reading (process) , postcolonialism (international relations) , comics , literature , work (physics) , history , art , philosophy , art history , sociology , linguistics , gender studies , physics , thermodynamics
The River Sutra is an intriguing work by Gita Mehta. After reading the book to its last page, one sits wondering whether this book ought to be called a novel, or a collection of anecdotes that are cleverly sewn together by a number of threads-a number of sutras.