Pitara is a bi-monthly news and features magazine in simple Hindi. Read extensively across north India, Pitara has a diverse readership, which includes teachers, students, activists and newly-literate readers.

Pitara is Nirantar’s very first project! Published regularly since 1994, Pitara was started to fill a vacuum – making available informative, entertaining and simply written material for the thousands of people who learn how to read but often forget or do not read for the lack of appropriate reading material. Pitara continues to fill this need. Pitara currently has a 3,000-strong readership that covers a wide cross-section and includes individuals, government programmes and NGOs across the Hindi-speaking belt. Every year Nirantar produces six issues of Pitara.