INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
She was 80 years old.Sources said she was not keeping well for past some months due to age related ailments.Gita, daughter of legendary Biju
Patnaik, was also a documentary film maker, and journalist
She was married to renowned American publisher late Sonny Mehta.Born in 1943 to Biju and Gyan Patnaik in Delhi, she had her education in
India and University of Cambridge UK
She had written five books: Karma Cola, Snake and Ladders, A River Sutra, Raj and The Eternal Ganesha.Gita had hit headlines in 2019 after
am deeply honoured that the Government of India should think me worthy of a Padma Shri but with great regret I feel I must decline as there
is a general election looming and the timing of the award might be misconstrued, causing embarrassment both to the Government and myself,
leader Baijayant Panda described her as a charismatic, opinionated and feisty personality
