Geeta Dharmarajan
Geeta Dharmarajan is a writer, editor and educator, as well as the Executive Director of Katha, a non-profit organization she founded in 1988. Her innovative, award-winning work is geared to uniting India’s different language communities. She views translation as a means of fostering unity, reinforcing diversity and offering the illiterate equity and the opportunity to participate in lifelong learning. Her efforts to further education and reduce poverty have brought change and introduced the joy of reading to 8 million women and children in slums and tribal villages.