Source: Bruce Glikas\/FilmMagic<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nAlongside her literary work, she contributed as a writer and director for the 1971 TV series “World in Action,” a documentary series covering current affairs. In her early career, she balanced British documentary projects while teaching at Bombay University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The world of literature and storytelling bids farewell to a significant figure. Gita Mehta, a renowned author and accomplished TV director, has passed away at the age of 80 in her hometown of New Delhi. Her writings have been instrumental in shaping Western perspectives on India. Remembering Literary Power Couple: Gita Mehta and Sonny Mehta […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":21137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[6198,2689,5302,3850,6196,6199,1607,1444,1519,6201,2841,1202,6200,6197,1608,6202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21136,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106\/revisions\/21136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}