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India Rising-Voices of the 86%; Katha as a solution
India Rising- Katha as 86% solution “Written and produced by Shilpa Bakre and directed by Jon Hamlin, India Rising is a short documentary about the 86% emerging markets that are rapidly becoming the most important economic forces on the planet. It is intended ultimately to be a feature length documentary or perhaps even a series. As you can imagine the content is prolific and covering several continents. It is ….read more
Write & Read- Chennai!
Over 200 children from over 15 schools came together and brought new life to Tidel Park Auditorium, Chennai, during the Write&Read Workshop conducted by HP and Katha on the 30th of September and 1st of October, 2011! With interactive activities, sessions and games aimed at covering all the basics, from the elements of story writing to expanding one’s imagination, the entire experience of the workshop wound up ….read more
Katha Workshops
All Day Kids team covered our ‘Book- making workshop’ and ‘Theatre Workshop’. Our Co-director Gauri Palachandran shares her views with All Day Kids. All Day Kids is an online space for kids across the world to connect in a unique way. A platform where kids can share their thoughts, express their creativity and entertain their minds in an enriching way. Kids can write stories, poems, upload their paintings, ….read more
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Katha launches Yuva Police Panchayat
Katha Social Work Institute (KaSWI) encourages maximum participation and builds active citizenship through community activism (involvement of women and children) to work towards the goal to recreate a dynamic democracy. Hence with an objective to build Yuva as leaders and build their participation in decision making, Katha is a first NGO to introduce YUVA POLICE PANCHAYAT, which has total of 15 members comprising ….read more
Making News – Write&Read – HP and Katha Initiative.
The Hindu, 7th July: In an effort … to rekindle the imagination of children, Katha, a non governmental organization that offers an education to children living in poverty, and Hewlett Packard (HP) came together to launch a collaborative story writing programme ‘Write&Read’. Students from Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Pune will participate in these workshops, where ….read more
Katha in News
DD1 broadcast on Katha and its various ventures. Katha here talks about its unique model that connects education with urban resurgence and its creative one of a kind approach of story- based pedagogy that it has developed and mastered through past two decades of constant ….read more
Jatan Sansthan’s Review on Teacher Training Workshop at Katha
“As a continuing endeavour to improve the quality of education that we impart to our students, our teachers attended a special five day teacher training workshop at Katha, New Delhi. It had the following components: ACE is Alternative Classroom Education. It teaches teachers to run effective schools under difficult circumstances. This also covers an innovative approach to use story as pedagogy for learning and ….read more
MHRD Jet Team’s Evaluation
A team comprising of five members chosen by Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt. of India, was formed in order to evaluate the existing E4 Programme. Arun Kapoor, Director, Vasant Valley School, Jyoti Pahwa, Under Secretary MHRD, R.M.Mohla, SSA, Delhi, Dilreen Kaur, Consultant, Education Development Specialist, Learn Today and Prof. Sudarshan Khanna, Consultant, Education Development Specialist, Learn ….read more
Book Reviews
Moon, Ramu and I The pictures by Harshwardhan Kadam are poured on complete two pages with minimal text – a sure way to pull young readers towards this particular fancy of the little one like them. ~ Literary Sojourn, 2011 The illustrations by Harshvardhan Kadam enlivens the book and creates many interesting images for a child to muse over. Well laid out with minimal text on each page will engage the child. ~ ….read more
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World Library Series
Very few Indian Publishers have done justice to picture storybooks. The three recently released picture storybooks from Katha are a visualtreat and quite unlike the regular published –in- India storybooks. The illustrations are lovely, the storytelling flows naturally and the production qualitiy is excellent. ~ ePaper- Article, 2009 These books are worthy successors to old Katha favourites such as song of a ….read more
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