Pitara is Nirantar’s very first project!
Pitara seeks to make available informative, entertaining and simply written material for teachers, students, activists and newly-literate readers. A special category of Pitara's readership are the thousands of people who learn how to read but often forget or do not read for the lack of appropriate reading material.
Published regularly since 1994, Pitara’s format has been modified over the years based on readers’ feedback. Pitara was being brought out as a bi-monthly news and features magazine.
Now Pitara will be published as a series of booklets on themes as varied as women's travel writing, food, rivers and so on.
Issue 99, before the change in Pitara's current avatar as magazine
July-August 2009 - A special, and challenging issue on sexuality
November-December 2009 - One of our most exciting and well-received issues, on women's travel writing
September-October 2009, Special Issue on NREGA
Read more about Pitara: Reading Beyond the Alphabet.PDF
An article from Reading Beyond the Alphabet: Innovations in Lifelong Literacy
