Geeta Dharmarajan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Indian writer, teacher, social innovator
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Place of Birth: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
About Geeta Dharmarajan
- Geeta Dharmarajan 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 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.
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