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It started with one question, and a promise to answer it.
Gitanjali was working on HIV outreach. A woman on GB Road asked her if she would teach her to read a menu. Everything since has been an answer to that one question.
In 2011, our founder was visiting GB Road as part of an outreach project with NACO. She was meant to be distributing condoms and gathering data. She was not meant to stay.
On her third visit, a woman she had never met before asked her something nobody had asked her on GB Road. "They don't trust anyone anymore," the woman said. "But I want to learn. Will you teach me how to read a menu?"
Gitanjali came back the next week with a notebook. Then the week after. Then she stopped going home. Kat-Katha was born inside a brothel, in a room with three women, two children, and a borrowed copy of a Hindi alphabet primer.
