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On Gita

This blog post started out as a simple email reply to some questions about Gita Mehta aka Gita Patnaik, and went on far too long.  Only read what you wish. [NOTE: this was published on Sept. 20 2017. And updated on April 7 2022. Gayatri was just now named the new Directo r of the Beacon Press.] Question 1 . Have you read Gita's books?  If you want to know about all of Gita’s writings, check out this link about her according to WorldCat http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n79057798 It says she has "47 works in 296 publications in 15 languages and 5,485 library holdings." WorldCat has similar listings for all authors (for eg see Philip McEldowney Only 6 works http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-nr97024612 ) I’ve greatly enjoyed reading her fiction (Raj and River Sutra), but never have gotten beyond the first few pages, for some reason, of her main non-fiction – Karma Kola, Snakes and Ladders.   We (the UVa library) have those four books in our