Geeta Dharmarajan

Geeta Dharmarajan is a writer, editor, educator and the Executive Director of Katha, a non-profit organization. She was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu in 1948. She was educated in Holy Angels High School. She is a graduate in English Literature from Stella Maris College, Chennai.

Her professional editorial experience began with Target, a children’s magazine, and continued with The Pennsylvania Gazette, the 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.

Her major activities include the institution of the Katha Awards for Literary Excellence, and curating the Katha Festivals and utsavs that bring literature to the public. These create meeting places for writers, translators, scholars, critics, storytellers and contemporary artists and community activists. Geeta led the writers workshop initiative for the central Board of Secondary Education, with partnerships established in 500 schools in India.

The Government of India awarded her the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2012.

Find below the link for the complete list of Geeta’s publication: https://books.katha.org/product-category/doe-recommended/#