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An exploration of narrative technique in gita mehtas a river. She presents many unconnected stories in her novel, stories about hindu and. Karma cola by gita mehta penguin books new zealand. Mehta s formula, you have the karma, well take the coca cola, a metaphysical soft drink for a physical one, is as facile as the jargon of the hinduizing zanies she so rightly scorns. Read karma cola marketing the mystic east by gita mehta available from rakuten kobo. In doing so, she also reveals the devastating byproducts that the westerners brought to the villages of rural lndia high anxiety and drug addiction among them. A westwardlooking indian cambridgeeducated, mehta views young spiritual seekers with a combination of amusement and dismay. It is a sad, hilarious, rueful tale and she tells it with a rich fund of irony, satire, acerbic wit and insight. Gita and sonny mehta s apartment is an oasis of tranquility in midtown manhattan. If gita mehtas book karma cola does not herald in a new era in indian. Beginning in the late 60s, hundreds of thousands of westerners descended upon india, disciples of. Written by gita mehta karma cola is published by ballantine books in the year of 1991.
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