5. In the year 2000, Hindi Academy again gave her aid of Rs.7500 for publication of her book ‘Samasyaen Bachchon Ki’.

6. She was the editor and complete caretaker of children’s magazine ‘Bal Manch’ published by Nehru Bal Samiti.

7. Now she is the co-editor of a family magazine – Jahanvi. She is looking after it since 1995.

8. She has also produced and directed many programmes for Doordarshan and written scripts for programmes on the same channel.

9. She is associated with Radio FM Gold and done many programmes for F.M. Radio. She is associated with a social organization Carel.

10. Her book “kalpana chawla” was released by the CBSE chairman Mr. Bala Subramanium in August 2005.

11. She has traveled very widely across the globe including different countries like USA, Canada, England, Germany, France, Singapore, Dubai, Australia, and New Zealand, China etc. Her hobbies vary from writing to reading, photography, painting, cooking and gardening.


Chitra Garg was born on 8th October 1954 in a small town of U.P. – Faridpur in district Bareilly. She did her schooling from S.S.K. Inter College, Faridpur. She passed her M.A.(English Literature) and B. Ed. from Bareilly College, Bareilly (Agra University, Agra). She was known to be a good student. She won many prizes in cultural programmes, handicraft competitions and sports during her school and college days.

During her college days, she found her interest in writing and started writing for local newspapers. To her surprise and joy, almost all her articles got published. This gave her the impetus to write further on and since then she has been very actively involved in creative writing on a very varied number of subjects.

Her father Shri Jeet Prakash Agarwal was a very reputed and rich business-sman who was associated with the politics also. He was the chairman of the municipal board and traders association of Faridpur. He died at an early age. He always inspired her to do something creative on her own to go head. Her mother’s name is Mrs. Sarojini Agarwal, who is an ideal housewife. Chitra Garg has been living in Delhi since 1979, when she got married to Mr. Dinesh Garg who is a practicing advocate in Delhi High Court. She has two children- a daughter- Garima and a son- Prakhar.

She has a deep belief in God but she doesn’t believe in worship and show off about it. She always fuels inspiration from her father in every work.

Hobbies :- Photography, Travelling, Painting, Gardening, Writing.

Travel :- Besides India, she has travelled USA, Canada, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Bahmas, Mexico, Dubai.