Recently retired from a career teaching English literature, Bande continues pursuing her intercity in women Indian writers by analyzing the novels of Mehta, finding in them a welcome change
from heavy philosophical feminism to descriptions of nature and stories of colorful people doing colorful things, though of course with historical, social, and political resonance. She begins
by reviewing her literary career generally and the place of specific works in it and its place in a diasporic discourse in postcolonial and postmodern context. Then she focuses in turn on Karma
Cola, Raj, A River Sutra, and Snakes and Ladders. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
