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Gita Mehta is one of the most significant writers in Indian Writing in English. Her writing mainly deals with Indian reality of social, cultural, spiritual, traditional, and political condition of India. Indian women are confined in the name of religion, customs of spirituality, society and tradition. Mehta’s female protagonists want to break such social taboos and establish an identity in the society. A River Sutra is her novel which was published in 1993. Mehta has touched up the sense of male dominance, racial discrimination and one’s continuous search for spirituality in this novel. This article will show how the novel A River Sutra can be read from a spiritual perspective. The key argument of the paper deals with ancient India’s social, cultural and spiritual reality are a highly advanced knowledge society from which the sublimity of Indian thought could be comprehended.