{"id":17301,"date":"2023-09-18T17:21:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T11:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/?p=17301"},"modified":"2023-09-18T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T11:51:07","slug":"gita-mehta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/18-09-2023\/gita-mehta","title":{"rendered":"Gita Mehta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS-1\/Art and Culture, Personalities in News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Context<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Recently, Gita Mehta, a renowned writer-filmmaker passed away.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">About Gita Mehta<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>She was a writer, journalist and filmmaker of both Indian and American heritage.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>She was engaged in documentary filmmaking, with focus on various <strong>wars and conflicts.&nbsp;<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One of her significant contributions was her coverage of the <strong>Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Books Published<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>&#8216;Karma Cola&#8217;, &#8216;Snake and Ladders&#8217;, &#8216;A River Sutra&#8217;, &#8216;Raj&#8217; and &#8216;The Eternal Ganesha&#8217;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Awards Honored<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>She was conferred India\u2019s fourth highest civilian honour, the <strong>Padma Shri<\/strong>, in the<strong> field of literature and education in 2019<\/strong>, she had declined the award.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/india\/gita-mehta-renowned-author-and-odisha-cm-naveen-patnaiks-sister-passes-away-at-80-pm-narendra-modi-pays-tribute-11694911725651.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Mint<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syllabus: GS-1\/Art and Culture, Personalities in News Context About Gita Mehta Books Published Awards Honored Source: Live Mint<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17302,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17301\/revisions\/17302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}