Instituted by USAID, Government of India and FICCI, 2013[1] 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.
Geeta's published works include more than 30 children's books and over 450 individual pieces in magazines and newspapers in India and abroad.
[10] Katha introduced an array of writings from India's many oral and written traditions to children, ages 0 – 17.
These create meeting places for writers, translators, scholars, critics, storytellers and contemporary artists and community activists.
[16] Today it is a centre of creativity for the slum cluster it is situated in, producing professionals every year who become entrepreneurs who support their families, or go on to higher studies.