Gita Mehta

Eminent author and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's elder sister Gita Mehta died at her Delhi residence on Saturday due to old age ailments.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said that his sister, writer Gita Mehta, has every right to decline the Padma Shri award. Ms Mehta, who is based in the US, turned down the prestigious award conferred upon her by the government on Friday, citing its timing ahead of the national elections due by May.

Months before the government conferred the Padma Shri to American writer Gita Mehta, who happens to also be Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's elder sister, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached out to the writer and had a 90-minute long meeting with her and her very famous husband, iconic publisher Sonny Mehta.

Incredible though it may seem, (late) Biju Patnaik had plans to print fake currency notes and circulate them across the Indian subcontinent as a means of bringing about the downfall of the British Raj.

Eminent author and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's elder sister Gita Mehta died at her Delhi residence on Saturday due to old age ailments.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said that his sister, writer Gita Mehta, has every right to decline the Padma Shri award. Ms Mehta, who is based in the US, turned down the prestigious award conferred upon her by the government on Friday, citing its timing ahead of the national elections due by May.

Months before the government conferred the Padma Shri to American writer Gita Mehta, who happens to also be Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's elder sister, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached out to the writer and had a 90-minute long meeting with her and her very famous husband, iconic publisher Sonny Mehta.

Incredible though it may seem, (late) Biju Patnaik had plans to print fake currency notes and circulate them across the Indian subcontinent as a means of bringing about the downfall of the British Raj.