«Bold Type: Interview with Gita Mehta». web.archive.org. Random House. 4. august 2002. Archived from the original on 4. august 2002. Besøkt 8. oktober 2023. «This year marks the 50th anniversary of India's independence from the British Empire, an event that indelibly marked Mehta's childhood. Her parents were active in the struggle for liberation; her father was arrested by the English two weeks after her birth in Delhi in 1943, "and I was sent off to boarding school at the age of three, because my mother was racing around trying to get my father out of jail."»CS1-vedlikehold: Uheldig URL (link)