people
Katha Governing Council
PRESIDENT:
Abid Hussain, former Indian ambassador to the US, career
diplomat,
advisor to UNESCO
VICE PRESIDENTS:
N S Jagannathan, former editor in chief, The Indian Express
N N Tandon, former director, UNIDO
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:
Geeta Dharmarajan, social entrepreneur, writer, educationist
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
U R Anantha Murthy, writer, former president, Sahitya
Akademi
Ashok Vajpeyi, former vice chancellor,
International Hindi University
Gowher Rizvi, director, Ash Institute
for Democratic Governance and
Innovation, Harvard University
Kapila Vatsyayan,
expert, culture and education
S Krishnamoorthy, retired financial
expert, Government of India
Leela K Ponappa, former Indian ambassador
to The Netherlands
Leila Seth, former chief justice of
Himachal Pradesh
Mani Narayanaswamy, trustee, National
Foundation for The Arts
Panna Bharat Ram, founder, Shri Ram
Centre for Performing Arts
Shabana Azmi, social activist, actor
Sharmila Tagore, actor
Srinath, business entrepreneur
Shashank, former foreign secretary,
Government of India
Syed Shahid Mahdi, former vice chancellor,
Jamia Millia Islamia University
Veena Das, academic, sociologist,
Krieger-Eisenhower professor of
anthropology at Johns Hopkins University
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Action Aid
Aditi Plan
Alliance Francaise
Asha for Education
Asian Ladies Society
Australian High Commission
Beijing Newsletter
British Council
British High Commission
British Telecom
Casplan
Charanjiv Charitable Trust
Chinese Embassy
Citibank
Child Relief & You
Cognizant Foundation
Delhi Development Authority Slum Wing
Department of Education, GOI
Dept of Women & Child Development, GOI
Ford Foundation
GAIL India Pvt. Ltd.
German Embassy
GNK Plan
HPS Foundation
India Habitat Centre
India International Centre
Indian Council for Cultural Relations
ICCO
International Labour Organisation
Indian Bank
India Cements Ltd
Indo German Social Service Society
Indo Swedish Writers Union
Intel Asia Electronics Inc
India Tourist Development Corporation
DUDA
European Union
First National Bank
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Karnataka Government
MacArthur Foundation
Ministry of Labour, Govt.
of India
Michael & Susan Dell
Foundation
National Commission for Women
Oxfam
Plan International
PVR
Rajiv Gandhi Foundation
Reach India
Red Barnet
Rockefeller Foundation
Roopmanjari
Royal Netherlands Embassy
Seva Riyad
SIMS Pvt Ltd
SLK
SOAS
Soroptimist International
Vancouver
Swedish Embassy
Target
TWB Foundation
UNEP
UNESCO
Tech Mahindra Foundation
Axis Bank Foundation
British Telecom (Worldwide) Ltd
UNICEF
University of Chicago
University of Texas
USIS
Wings of Support Foundation
Wipro
World Vision
SOS
Sri Dorabji Tata Trust
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Thank
You Contributors:
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A K Sharma
Abanindranath Tagore
Agyeya
Ahmad Yusuf
Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi
Akshay Singh
Ambai
Aparajita Datta
Arun Joshi
Asha Bage
Atulananda Goswami
B R Bhagwat
Bibhas Sen
Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
Bimal Kar
Bimal Kar
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharyya
Bolwar Mahamad Kunhi
C Byrde
Chandrakant Keni
Charu Anand
Cho Dharman
D R Bhagwat
Damayanti
Darshana Dave
Deepa Agarwal
Dhumketu
Dilip M Salwi
Easterine Iralu
Enrique Lara Robayo
Franz Hubner
Geeta Dharmarajan
Gita Krishnankutty
Gulzar
Gurbachan Singh Bhullar
H Y Sharada Prasad
Himanshi Shelat
Hugh & Colleen Gantzer
Indira Ananthakrishnan
Indira Mukherjee
Ismat Chughtai
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Jacquelin Singh
Jai Ratan
Jayant Kaikini
Jaywant Dalvi
Jug Suraiya
K M Sherrif
K Raghavendra Rao
Kalyani Dutta
Kamakshiprasad Chattopadhyay
Kaveri D
Kaveri Rasgoti
Keerti Ramachandra
Kishore Chatterjee
Komilla Raote
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
Lakshmi Holmström
Lila Majumdar
Luis Fernando García Guayara
M Mukundan
M R Kapoor
Madhavi Mahadevan
Madhavi S Mahadevan
Madhurantakam Rajaram
Mahashweta Devi
Mahua Bhattacharya
Maitreyi Pushpa
Mala Marwah
Malati Mathur
Mamang Dai
Manju Kak
Mannu Bhandari
Manoj Das
Manu Mahadevan
Margaret Bhatty
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar
Mauni
Meena Kakodkar
Meenakshi Bharadwaj
Meenakshi Sharma
Monisha Mukundan
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Moti Nandy
Mridula Garg
Mridula Nath Chakraborty Mrinal
Mrinal Pande
Mukta Munjal
N S Jagannathan
Nadeem Ahmed
Naiyer Masud
Nayantara
Nayantara Sahgal
Neerada Suresh
Nima Manjrekar
Nimret Handa
O V Vijayan
Padma Hejmadi
Paro Anand
Partap Sharma
Paul Zacharia
Poile Sengupta
Poorna Chandra Tejasvi
Prabhjot Kaur
Prasenjit Ranjan Gupta
Premchand
Pudhuvai Ra Rajani
Pudumaipittan
Purna Chandra Tejasvi
R Krishnamurthy
R Krishnamurthy (Kalki)
R S Sudarshanam
Rabindranath Tagore
Rajindra Singh Bedi
Ram Swaroop Kisan
Rama Baru
Ramachandra Sharma
Rashme Sehgal
Reeta Dutta Gupta
Renuka Ramachandran
Rizio Yohannan Raj
Roberto Calasso
Rumi |
Rumi: Jalal Al-Din Muhammad
S Krishnan
Sadhana
Saibal Chakravarty
Sanjay Khati
Santanu Phukan
Santanu Sinha Chaudhuri
Sarang Dev Murthy
Satyajit Ray
Shampa Ghosh
Shanti Krishnaswamy
Sharada Nair
Shevlin Sebastian
Shyam Mathur
Sigrun Srivastava
Srisrividhiya K Or Srivi
Subhadra Sen Gupta
Suddhasattwa Basu
Sufiya Pathan
Sukani
Sundara Ramaswamy
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Surendra Prakash
Susan Viswanathan
Swapna Dutta
Swayam Prakash
T Bijoykumar Singh
Taposhi
Thingnam Anjulika Samom
Tim Parks
U R Anantha Murthy
Vaikom Muhammed Basheer
Vasudha Mane
Vibha Kaul
Vidya Pai
Vishnu Nagar
Vyankatesh Madgulkar |
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A J Thomas
A Naseeb Khan
Aateka Khan
Abburi Chaya Devi
Abdul Naseeb Khan
Adeel Mehdi
Aditi Choudhury
Aditya Behl
Alladi Uma
Amar Kumar Majumdar
Ameena K Ansari
Ameena Kazi Ansari
Ananda Lal
Anisur Rahman
Anjana Desai
Anju Makhija
Anupama Prabhala Kapse
Aparna Satpathy
Apratim Barua
Aruna Bhowmick
Asha Puri
Atanu Bhattacharya
Avaneesh Bhatt
Ayenjam Bijoykumar
B Kalpana
Babli Moitra Saraf
Bageshree
Baran Rahman
Bhushan Arora
Bipin Bhise
Bonita Baruah
Brahmarajan
C T Indra
Chandra Prakash Deval
Chitta Ranjan Das
D N Bezboruah
Daisy Rockwell
Deeba Zafir
Dhritiman Chatterjee
Dr K S Subramanian
Dr Nanavati
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Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Frederica Oddera
Ganesh N Devy
Gayatri Bhattacharyya
George Szirtes
Gillian Wright
Gita Krishnakutty
Gita Krishnankutty
Gita Rajan
Githa Sagar
Gopa Manumdar
Gurcharan Das
H Y Sharada Prasad
Hephzibah Israel
Hina Nandrajog
I R Babu Singh
Indira Chandrasekhar
Indiran
Jahnavi Phalkey
Jai Ratan
Jatindra Kumar Nayak
Jayeeta Sharma
K A Parthasarthy
K G Ramakrishnan
K M Sherrif
K Raghavendra Rao
Kalyani Dutta
Kamal Sanyal
Keerti Ramachandra
Krishna Paul
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
L Somi Roy
Liza Das
Louis Menezes
M Abbasuddin Tapadar
M Asaduddin
M Sridhar
M Vijayalakshmi
M. Asaduddin
Madhobi Medhi
Madhu Prasad
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Madhukar Gajanan Hegde
Mahashweta Devi
Mahasweta Baxipatra
Mahua Bhattacharya
Malati Mathur
Manu Shetty
Margaret Lalmuanpuii Pachuau
Maurice Shukla
Meenakshi Bharat
Meenakshi Swami
Meenakshi Tyagarajan
Mitra Mukherjee Parikh
Mohammad Hasan Askari
Mona Zote
Monalisa Dani
N Kamala
Nadeem Ahmed
Naghma Zafir
Nandini Guha
Narayan Hegde
Neer Kanwal Mani
Neeraj Malik
Neshat Quaiser
Nikhil Khandekar
Padma C Rao
Padma Sharma
Padmaja Punde
Pramatha Chaudhuri
Pranava Manjari
Pravabati Chingangbam
Prema Seetharam
Promila Puri
R Parthasarathy
Rachna Sethi
Raghavendra Rao K
Rajendra Prasad Mishra
Rakhi M Soman
Ramachandra Sharma
Ramesh Chander
Ramiah Kumar
Rana Nayar
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Rashmi Chaturvedi
Rashmi Govind
Ravikant
Robin S Ngangom
Ruma Phukan
Rupalee Verma
Rupanjali Baruah
Ruth Vanita
S K Shanti
S Krishnan
S. Krishnan
Sachi Madhavan
Samudra Gupta Kashyap
Sarala Jag Mohan
Sherry Simon
Shobhana Bhattacharji
Srutimala
Stuti
Suhas
Sukrita Paul
Sumedha
Sunanda Chaturvedi
Sunil Trivedi
Surajit Borooah
Sushant Kumar
Thingnam Anjulika
Tridip Suhrud
Uma Narayanan
Upendra Nanavati
Usha Nambudripad
V B Tharakeshwar
Vaidehi Sinha
Vanajam Ravindran
Vandana R Singh
Vidya Pai
Vidyanand Jha
Vimala Balakrishnan
Vishnu Khare
Xavier Cota
Yukti Banerjee
Yunus Agaskar |
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Amanda Suutari
Anahita Taymourian
Atanu Roy
Bindia Thapar
D Sharma
Enrique Lara
Feeroozeh Golmohammadi
Jay
Jayashankar Prasad
Ludmilla Chakrabarty
Luis Fernando García Mario
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Maya
Moti Karan & Satya Narayan Lala Karna
Neeta Gangopadhya
Nimret
Nityan Unnikrishnan
Prabhjot
Prashanta Kumar Nayak
Premola Ghose
Ragini
Rashin Kheiriyeh |
Sanjay Sundaram
Sarda Natarajan
Sonal Panse
Sonali Biswas
Srisrividhiya K or Srivi
Stephen Aitken
Suddhasattwa Basu
Sujata Singh
Sujata Khana
Subba Ghose
Swapan Sarkar |
Taposhi
Uma Krishnaswamy
Vandana Bist
Ludmilla Chakraborty |
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Assamese
Atulananda Goswami
Harekrishna
Harekrishna Deka
Indira Goswami
Pankaj Thakur
Asomiya
Atulananda Goswami
Harekrishna Deka
Indira Goswami
Pankaj Thakur
Pradip Acharya
Bangla
Anil Gharai
Debes Ray
Enakshi Chatterjee
Hiranmay Karlekar
Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Shirshendu Chakravarti
Dogri
Shivanath
English
Ananda Lal
Geeta Dharmarajan
Gurcharan Das
Makarand Paranjape
Nissim Ezekiel
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Rukun Advani
Vijaylakshmi Quereshi
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Gujarati
Ganesh Devy
Ganesh N Devy
Gulam Mohammed Sheikh
Prabodh Parikh
Shirish Panchal
Upendra Nanavati
Hindi
Asad Zaidi
Ashok Vajpeyi
Nirmal Verma
Rajendra Yadav
Sara Rai
Vijay Mohan Singh
Kannada
D R Nagaraj
H Y Sharada Prasad
HY Sharada Prasad
Nataraj Huliyar
Raghavendra Rao
Ramachandra Sharma
Shantinath K Desai
Konkani
Chandrakant Keni
Damodar Mauzo
Vidya Pai
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Marathi
Arvind Dixit
Ganesh N Devy
Shirin S Valavade
Sudha Naravane
Usha Tambe
Vijaya Rajadhyaksha
Vilas Sarang
Malayalam
Ayyappa Paniker
K Satchidanandan
Paul Zacharia
Sujatha Devi
Manipuri
Robin S Ngangom
Maithili
Udaya Narayana Singh
Meiteilon
I R Babu Singh
Oriya
Jiwan Pani
Pratibha Ray
Sachidananda Mohanty
Yashodhara Mishra
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Punjabi
Gurdial Singh
K S Duggal
Kartar Singh Duggal
Rajasthani
Vijayadan Detha
Sindhi
Ghanshyam Dass G Hotumalani
Tamil
Ambai
Gnani
R Chudamani
S Krishna
Sundara Ramaswamy
Venkat Swaminathan
Vijaylakshmi Quereshi
Telugu
Allam Rajaiah
Amarendra Dasari
KK Ranganadhacharyulu
Madhurantakam Rajaram
Vakati Panduranga Rao
Urdu
Anisur Rahman
Gopi Chand Narang
Sadiqur Rahman Kidwai
Sara Rai
Shamsul Haq Usmani |
Thank You Friends & Resource People:
Arvind Gaur, Asmita theatre group, Ashok Vajpeyi, Ajeet Caur, Vasudha
Dalmia, Geetanjali Shree, Anoop Beniwal, Sukrita Paul Kumar, Nupur
Awasthi, Pavan K Varma, Mike Pandey, Ranjit Lal, Deepa, K Satchidanandan,
Ashish Paliwal, Jagmohan (BGVS), Professor Yashpal,
Rajneesh Kumar, Peyush Mehra, Sudhir Kumar Jha, Sudhanshu Chopra,
Vipin Dubey (SISI, Govt of India)
From MSME - Ministry of Small & Medium Enterprises,
Govt of India: K K Goyal, S S Bist
From NCERT: Dr Usha
Dutta, Dr Kriti Kapoor, Dr Sneh Lata Prasad, Dr Hukum Singh,
Dr Gagan Gupta, Dr V P Singh
From Jamia Milia Islamia: Dr Chand Dev Yadav, Dr Azhar
Majid Siddiqui, Dr A K Hafeez, Dr Mohammed Shahid Khan
Thank You Overseas Volunteers: Johanna
Rogat, Kate Fox, Charlotte Humphrey, Charlotte Buckley, Daisy Wyatt,
Philipp Grote, Maura Ross, Hannah, Mihika Acharya, Imogen
Lowe, Mariette Robbes
Thank You Kathashala Interns: Pushpa
Biswash, Rinky Asoliya, Sarita Shakya, Raju Verma, Subhadra
Burman, Mohd. Hussain, Firoj Alam Ansari, Meena Pal, Anuradha
Sharma, Wasim Ahmad Mansoori, Manoj Das, Sadaf Rehman, Sadiq
Rehman
strategy statement
Our Vision 2020 focuses on children, starting with books for
toddlers and reaching out to teenagers and young adults. Our work bridges
the UN’s vision of culturelinking with the building of imagination
in children and adults.
language
activism
Our grassroots work in language, culture and
translation strives to culturelink the incredibly pluralistic
country that is India.
our translation credo
To bring the best of Indian fiction translated into Indian homes, for
children, teens and adults.
the
bookshop
Our award-winning books for children benchmark
quality publishing for children and adults.
reading
campaign
An exciting and innovative way of bringing large numbers of urban children
into assured reading skills: 60-600 words before the age of 8.
awards
Katha Awards are nationally feted recognitions in the field
of story and translation.
search for excellence
writing
contest for children
chitrakala
contest
fellowships
tips
for contributors
translators
& editors
illustrators
children’s
writers
academic
editors/contributors
essays on
translation
Katha's well-defined recipe enables India to use translation as a non-divisive
tool that fosters culturelinking.
katha
translation for equity network
There are 100 million youth in our country, stymied by lack of English
and hence unable to perform well in college. KTEN addresses this obdurate
problem.
utsavs and celebrations
Since 1992, Katha has brought India and the world together to celebrate
story India.
people
Team Katha has 160 enthusiastic people and more than 500 volunteers
who bring positive change in the lives of the people we touch. join
the community
our donors
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