Volume 40, Number 13 · July 15, 1993

Tales From the Narmada Woods

By Gabriele Annan
A River Sutra
by Gita Mehta

Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, 291 pp., $20.00

A River Sutra consists of six tales that make up a fictionalized primer on Indian attitudes to religion, love, music, and poetry. An entry in the glossary explains the word sutra:



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