Gita Mehta's A River Sutra offers authentic interpretations of Indian cultural values, music, art forms and heritage. In this novel, we find Mehta's major involvement with human subsistence in modern times. The setting of the novel is on the banks of India's holiest river the Narmada. It is not only the setting but also the principle of the novel. It includes both a meditation and an exploration of the novel and also finds the simple pattern of the pilgrims' voyage in search of Moksha. The versatility of A River Sutra is that most of the characters only appear once. The progress of the six stories can be seen as variations on the theme of love and the secret of the human heart