| LC control no. | n 79057798 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3563.E344 |
| Personal name heading | Mehta, Gita |
| Variant(s) | Patnaik, Gita, 1942-2023 Mehta, Gita, 1942-2023 |
| Other standard no. | 0000 0000 7828 0090 36952356 Q538719 |
| Associated country | India |
| Located | New Delhi (India) London (England) New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1942-12-12 |
| Death date | 2023-09-16 |
| Place of birth | New Delhi (India) |
| Place of death | New Delhi (India) |
| Profession or occupation | Writers Novelists Documentary filmmakers Television journalists |
| Found in | Karma Cola, c1979: t.p. (Gita Mehta) CIP galley (pref. signed at Delhi) Eternal Ganesha, 2006: ECIP t.p. (Gita Mehta) data view (b. 1943) Washington post WWW site, viewed October 13, 2023 (in obituary dated September 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 in New Delhi. She was 80; husband Sonny Mehta. Ms. Mehta spent years moving between three continents, living in New Delhi, London and New York. Gita Patnaik was born in New Delhi on Dec. 12, 1942. Ms. Mehta was first known as a documentary filmmaker and television journalist) OCLC database, 1 Dec. 2023 (access points: Mehta, Gita, Mehta, Gita, 1942-; useage: Gite Mehta) New York times, 22 Sept. 2023: in an obituary on page A23 (Gita Mehta; born Gita Patnaik on Dec. 12, 1942 in New Delhi, died on Saturday [16 Sept. 2023] in New Delhi, aged 80; 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 men; in her 20s Ms. Mehta taught briefly at Bombay University and worked on documentaries for British television) |
| Associated language | eng |
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