Search for Cultural Identity in Gita Mehta’s Raj and A River Sutra

Abstract

One can interpret the concept of Across Culture in the aspect of Diaspora. By that one can analyse the usage of language to reveal Gita Mehta’s concept of literature with diaspora in one’s consciousness.

Gita Mehta is a diasporic writer settled in America at present. She is a writer, inhabiting two worlds with equal ease. Here we can identify that she has experienced cultural difference by living in two different cultures. Gita Mehta is the daughter of the well-known freedom fighter Biju Patnaik of Orissa. She was born in Delhi.