Katha

awards

The Katha Awards were instituted in 1990 for Creative Writing, Translation and Editing. They are among India’s premier recognitions in literature, while the Katha Chudamani recognizes lifetime achievement to literature. Some of our laureates include Krishna Sobti, Vijay Tendulkar, Vijayadan Detha and younger voices like Afsar Ahmed, NS Madhavan, Meghna Pethe, Asha Bage, Maitreyi Pushpa and others.

Through projects like the National and International Translation Contests, Katha is one of the few organizations that regularly enlarges its pool of translators. Thus, in innovative ways, it attempts to build a bank of sensitive translators. KathaNet, an invaluable network of Friends of Katha, is the mainstay of all Katha Vilasam efforts.

The Chitrakala contest is a unique initiative undertaken by Katha to bring the very best in the world of children’s publishing to our country. Instituted in 1998, this contest culminates in an award to recognize and honour established or emerging talent in children’s illustrations and storytelling, and those whose work displays creativity of a rare calibre. The Chitrakala contest is also the first of its kind as it carries a promise to publish award-winning entries.

In 2005, the Chitrakala contest went international and received an overwhelming response from around the globe, with hundreds of entries coming in from as many as eight countries, not to mention from all corners of India. Some of our Chitrakala award winners include Iranian Rashin Kheiriyeh and Anahita Taymourian.

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Three-Braided Curriculum

Scholastic Training: Formal traditional and non-traditional subject skills.
Academic Diploma - NOS Certification Vocational & Entrepreneurial Training: Management, leadership, and entrepreneurial skills. Katha School of Entrepreneurship Diploma) IT Training (Katha IT & Ecommerce Diploma)
All curriculums including life skills to prepare the child for employment and becoming a productive member of family and society.

Key Frameworks

Teacher training: Intensive training of teachers each year, aided by a Faculty Club programme to maintain excellence.
Honing student excellence: Katha's FINGA Principle finds, initiates, nurtures growth and applauds excellence in our students.
Leveraging reading: Developing taste or RUCHI is at the bottom of Katha's reading initiative. RUCHI increases a child's ability to read, use, comprehend holistically and intuit meaning for greater language power.
L.I.F.E. Skills: Lifelong Learning. Income generation. Family wellbeing. Empowerment
C9 Habits: Lifeskils training that excites children to curiosity, creativity and critical thinking.
TAQeED: Teachers Alliance for Quality eEducation

Support Programs

Katha Student Support Center: Supports Katha children who have transitioned into government schools
Maha-Mandal: Mothers association; parental and community involvement
Women's Income Generation Program: Combination of self-help and formal training to empower women. There are more than 70 women's Self Help Groups which work towards their family's upward mobility.
Shop-Keepers Guild: Several hundred shopkeepers participate in personal and community economic revivals. [The last two groups function only from the Katha Lab School.]

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Katha has been working in the publishing area for the last 15 years and translates the best of regional literature into English. The Katha Awards was instituted in 1990. Each author receives the Katha Award for Creative Fiction, which includes a citation and a cash prize of Rs 2,000, and publication (in translation) in that year's Katha Prize Stories volume. The translators are handpicked from the list of nearly 3000 names we have at Katha. Each of them gets the Katha Award for Translation which includes a citation, Rs 2000, and the chance to translate a prize story.
KATHA AWARDS FOR CREATIVE FICTION

YEAR: 2005
LANGUAGE	WINNER
Asomiya	Rajendra Sarmah
Asomiya	Sibananda Kakoti
Bangla	Rongili Biswas
Bangla	Ram Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Bangla	Jhareswar Chattopadhyay
Gujarati	Hemangini Ashok Ranade
Hindi	Kunal Singh
Konkani	Mahabaleshwar Sail
Malayalam	N S Madhavan
Malayalam	Santhosh Achikkanam
Meeteilon	Nee Devi
Meeteilon	Sudhir Naorembam
Marathi	Sandhya Mohan Gholap
Marathi	Madhuri M Shanbhag

YEAR: 2004
LANGUAGE	WINNER
Telugu	K Srikanth Reddy
Malayalam	Ashita
Konkani	Meena Kakodkar
Tamil	Cheizhian
Marathi	Madhuri Mohan Shanbagh
Bangla	Jhareswar Chattopadhyay
Asomiya	Sibananda Kakoti
Meiteilon	Kengba Yengkhom
Hindi	Neelakshi Singh
Meiteilon	Khoiren Meetei
Oriya	Santanu Kumar Acharya
Hindi	Kashi Nath Singh

YEAR: 2003
LANGUAGE	WINNER
Malayalam	M Mukundan
Konkani	Prakash S Pariekar
Tamil	Mahi
Urdu	Salam Bin Razak
Punjabi	Sukhjit
Telugu	Mohammad Khadeer Babu
Bangla	Bani Basu
English	Brinda Charry

YEAR: 2000
LANGUAGE	WINNER
Marathi	Asha Kardaley
Telugu	V Chandra Sekhar Rao
Bangla	Gautam Sengupta & Soharab Hossain
Assamese	Kula Saikia
Manipuri	Lamabam Viramani
Dogri	Manoj
Sindhi	Motilal Jotwani
Tamil	Perumal Murugan & Pugazh
Maithili	Raj Mohan Jha
Oriya	Ramachandra Behera
Malayalam	K P Ramanunni
Hindi	Ramkumar Tiwari
Urdu	Sajid Rashid
Malayalam	Sithara S

YEAR: 1999
LANGUAGE	WINNER
Bangla	Afsar Ahmed
Rajasthani	Chandra Prakash Deval
Telugu	Gopini Karunakar
Malayalam	Gracy
Assamese	Imran Hussain
Imran Hussain	Jeelani Bano
Manipuri	Keisham Priyokumar
Marathi	Meghana Pethe & Sarita Padki
Bangla	Minakshi Sen
Telugu	Mohammad Khadeer Babu
Gujarati	My Dear Jayu
Kannada	Pratibha Ray
Punjabi	Prem Gorkhi
Tamil	Suthradhari
Maithili	Vibha Rani
Hindi	Yogendra Ahuja
English	Roschen Sasikumar
YEAR: 1998
Bangla	Amar Mitra
Assamese	Arupa Patangia Kalita
Tamil	Azhagiyasingar
Konkani	Damodar Mauzo
Maithili	Dhoomketu
Kannada	S Diwakar
Marathi	Jayant Bendre
Punjabi	Mohinder Singh Sarna
Hindi	Naveen Kumar Naithani
Urdu	Sajid Rashid
Malayalam	Sarah Joseph
Telugu	Sriramana
Tamil	Sudhakar Ghatak
Rajasthani	Vijayadan Detha
Gujarati	Kunkna Dangi Adivasis

YEAR: 1997
LANGUAGE	WINNER
Malayalam	Ashita & B Chandrika
Punjabi	Baldev Singh & Prem Parkash
English	Brinda Charry
Urdu	Khalid Jawed & Nayyar Masood
Gujarati	Nazir Mansuri
Tamil	Paavannan & Che Yoganathan
Assamese	Phul Goswami
Rajasthani	Ram Swaroop Kisan
Hindi	Sanjay Sahay
Bangla	Suchitra Bhattacharya
Oriya	Tarun Kanti Mishra
Kannada	Vaidehi

YEAR: 1996
Gujarati	Anil Vyas
English	Dhruba Hazarika
Tamil	Irathina Karikalan
Asamese	Jayanta Kumar Chakravarty
Kannada	P Lankesh
Malayalam	N S Madhavan & P Vatsala
Punjabi	Mohinder Singh Sarna
Punjabi	Priya Vijay Tendulkar & Rawindra Pinge
Tamil	Pudhuvai Ra Rajani
Urdu	Shaukat Hayat
Hindi	Vishnu Nagar
Oriya	Yashodhara Mishra

YEAR: 1995

LANGUAGE	WINNER

Gujarati	Ajit Thakor
Tamil	Ambai
Kannada	U R Anantha Murthy & Jayant Kaikani
Marathi	Asha Bage
Oriya	Diptiranjan Pattanaik
Assamese	Harekrishna Deka
English	Prasenjit Ranjan Gupta & Usha K R
Malayalam	N Prabhakaran & Thomas Joseph
Hindi	Shirish Dhoble
Telugu	T Sreevalli Radhika
Urdu	Syed Muhammad Ashraf
Bangla	Tarapada Ray

YEAR: 1994
LANGUAGE	WINNER
English	Bibhas Sen & Vandana Bist
Kannada	Bolwar Mahamad Kunhi & Mithra Venkatraj
Marathi	Gauri Deshpande
Gujarati	Kanjit Patel
Telugu	Madhuranthakam Narendra
Malayalam	N S Madhavan & Sethu
Assamese	Manoj Kumar Goswami
Konkani	Meena Kakodkar
Marathi	Prakash Narayan Sant
Oriya	Pratibha Ray
Hindi	Priyamvad
Urdu	Surendra Prakash
Bangla	Swapnamoy Chakraborti
Tamil	Thanjai Prakash

YEAR: 1993
English	Abraham Verghese & Suma Josson
Malayalam	M Mukundan, Paul Zacharia, Sarah Joseph
Bangla	Bhagirath Misra
Tamil	Era Murugan & Cho Dharman
Gujarati	Bipin Patel & Himanshi Shelat
Urdu	Nayyar Masood
Kannada	Nataraj Huliyar
Asamese	Indira Goswami
Telugu	Madhurantakam Rajaram
Marathi	Pravin Patkar
Hindi	Maitreyi Pushpa & Prabha Dixit
Oriya	Yashodhara Mishra

YEAR: 1992
LANGUAGE	WINNER
Malayalam	M T Vasudevan Nair
Oriya	Gopinath Mohanty
Bangla	Shyamal Gangopadhyay
English	Rukun Advani & Manju Kak
Tamil	Subrabharatimanian
Urdu	Zamiruddin Ahmad
Kannada	Vivek Shanbhag
Marathi	Milind Bokil
Malayalam	N S Madhavan
Tamil	Jayamohan
Assamese	Atulananda Goswami
Gujarati	Mohan Parmar
Telugu	Rentala Nageswara Rao
Hindi	Dhruva Shukla
Gujarati	Bhupen Khakhar
Marathi	Asha Bage
Kannada	Vaidehi
Bangla	Bimal Kar

YEAR: 1991
Kannada	Purna Chandra Tejasvi
Assamese	Bhupendranarayan Bhattacharyya
Telugu	Swami
Marathi	Dilip Purushottam Chitre
English	Ashok Srinivasan
Bangla	Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Malayalam	Sara Joseph
Urdu	Surendra Prakash
Telugu	Madhurantakam Rajaram
Hindi	Rekha
Kannada	Fakir Muhammed Katpadi
Malayalam	T Padmanabhan
Marathi	Arun Mhatre
Tamil	Sundara Ramaswamy

Three-Braided Curriculum

Scholastic Training: Formal traditional and non-traditional subject skills.
Academic Diploma - NOS Certification Vocational & Entrepreneurial Training: Management, leadership, and entrepreneurial skills. Katha School of Entrepreneurship Diploma) IT Training (Katha IT & Ecommerce Diploma)
All curriculums including life skills to prepare the child for employment and becoming a productive member of family and society.

Key Frameworks

Teacher training: Intensive training of teachers each year, aided by a Faculty Club programme to maintain excellence.
Honing student excellence: Katha's FINGA Principle finds, initiates, nurtures growth and applauds excellence in our students.
Leveraging reading: Developing taste or RUCHI is at the bottom of Katha's reading initiative. RUCHI increases a child's ability to read, use, comprehend holistically and intuit meaning for greater language power.
L.I.F.E. Skills: Lifelong Learning. Income generation. Family wellbeing. Empowerment
C9 Habits: Lifeskils training that excites children to curiosity, creativity and critical thinking.
TAQeED: Teachers Alliance for Quality eEducation

Support Programs

Katha Student Support Center: Supports Katha children who have transitioned into government schools
Maha-Mandal: Mothers association; parental and community involvement
Women's Income Generation Program: Combination of self-help and formal training to empower women. There are more than 70 women's Self Help Groups which work towards their family's upward mobility.
Shop-Keepers Guild: Several hundred shopkeepers participate in personal and community economic revivals. [The last two groups function only from the Katha Lab School.]

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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

translation contest

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

Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

Tech Mahindra Foundation

Axis Bank Foundation

British Telecom (Worldwide) Ltd

Action Aid

Aditi Plan

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