Geeta Dharmarajan

Geeta Dharmarajan
Born
Geeta Krishnaswamy

(1948-09-19) 19 September 1948 (age 76)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Other namesK. Geeta
AwardsPadma Shri: 2012

Millinnium Alliance Innovator. Instituted by USAID, Government of India and FICCI, 2013[1]

Stockholm Challenge:[2] 2001
Websitewww.katha.org

Geeta Dharmarajan (born 19 September 1948) is a writer, editor, educator and the executive director of Katha, a nonprofit organisation that she founded in 1988. Her work focuses on education, especially of children from poor families.

Katha[3][4] is a registered non-profit and non-governmental organisation based in Delhi in 1989. Katha works in teacher training, children's education and literature. Katha works in underprivileged areas across India. A teaching/learning tool that she devised, "story pedagogy", has been in use in Katha's learning centres since 2001.

Dharmarajan's professional editorial experience that began with Target, a children's magazine, and continued with The Pennsylvania Gazette, the award-winning alumni magazine of the University of Pennsylvania. Geeta's published works include more than 30 children's books and over 450 individual pieces in magazines and newspapers in India and abroad. The Government of India awarded her the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2012.[5]

  1. ^ "U.S. and India Announce Innovation, Science, and Technology Awards". usaid.gov. Archived from the original on 1 May 2015. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  2. ^ Stockholm Challenge Stockholm Challenge Archived 3 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Katha, Official website". Katha. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  4. ^ Sharma, Aditya (4 January 2007). "A Katha of success". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  5. ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.