Accolades
Awards & Recognition
Katha's books have reached over 12.4 million children and earned recognition at home and around the world — for our writing, our publishing, our technology and our impact.
Organisation
Institutional awards
Padma Shri2012 · Govt. of India — to Founder Geeta Dharmarajan
Business Standard Social Entrepreneur of the Year2018 — Geeta Dharmarajan
Promising Practices Award2015 — for StoryPedagogy®
NGO Transparency Award2016 — GuideStar India
mBillionth Award (Early Stage)2018 — DEF India, for India's first mobile reading app
Polestar Award — Excellence in Social Impact (Education)2018
Millennium Alliance Award2013 — USAID & Govt. of India, for I Love Reading
ICICI India Inclusive Award2012 — ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth
India NGO Award (North India Winner)2009 — Rockefeller Foundation & Resource Alliance, UK
Tech Museum Laureate, Stockholm Challenge2001 · Finalist 2002
NASDAQ Stock Market Education Award2002
Social Enterprise Laboratory Award2002 — Digital Partners
Books & translation
Awards for our books
A selection of honours for Katha titles across writing, translation and illustration.
A K Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation2012 — Chouboli & Other Stories, Vol II (also Asian Publishing Award 2011)
FICCI Children's Book of the Year — Special Jury Award2019
The Darsana National Award — Best Children's Book2011 — Moon, Ramu and I
IBBY List (International Board on Books for Young People)2011 — Bioscope
Crossword Book Award2005 — The Heart Has Its Reasons (Krishna Sobti)
The Hindu Young World Good Books Award — shortlist2017 — Aamu's Kawandi (illustration)
Noma Concours (Encouragement Prize)1989 — The Princess with the Longest Hair
Noma Concours (Runner-up) & Biennial of Asian Illustrators, Japan2000 / 2002 — One Lonely Unicorn
Haiku Society of America — Honourable MentionMy Haiku Moments
Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava — Honourable Mention2003 — The Song of a Scarecrow
Muse India National Award — Jury's Commendation2011 — Not Flowers of Henna
Kidsstoppress Award — Best Indian Book Publisher (Runner-up)2017
Neev Book Award — Picture Book shortlist2020 — Dotted Lines
And more: 12 Katha books featured in Young Zubaan's
101 Indian Children's Books We Love; honours at the Biennial of Asian Illustrations (Japan); shortlistings at the Hutch Crossword Awards; and recognition on the IBBY Honour List. For the press kit and high-resolution award details, write to
info@katha.org.