Significance of Myth Gita Mehta’s A River Sutra

Abstract

This research explores the significance of mythological significance of river in Gita Mehta’s A River Sutra. Mehta represents Narmada River as both the physical entity and the mythological construct, which becomes supplementary and complementary to each other. The human relationship within a community and with the members of other communities is closely associated with NarmadaRiver which functions as the binding force to create cultural harmony between and among different communities. Thus, the mythical and spitirual concepts that the diverse social communities create about the Narmada associate them as the basic source of such construct is the same. To study this issue, the research takes theoretical ideas from different myth criticism.