Gita, or Geeta ( Deva, गीता, gītā) is an Indian feminine
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Geeta Anand Geeta Anand is a journalist, professor, and author. She is currently the dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She was a foreign correspondent for ''The New York Times'', as well as ''The Wall Street Journal'' and a political write ...
, journalist and author who writes for the Wall Street Journal
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Geeta Bali
Geeta Bali (born Harkirtan Kaur; 1930 ‒ 21 January 1965) was an Indian actress who appeared in Hindi language films. She was the wife of noted film actor Shammi Kapoor.
Early life
Geeta Bali was born as Harikirtan Kaur in Amritsar in the Pu ...
(1930–1965), Bollywood actress
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Geeta Basra
Geeta Basra Singh (born 13 March 1984) is a British actress who has appeared in Bollywood films. She is married to Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh. Cricketer Harbhajan Singh and model/actor Geeta Basra got married at a ceremony in a gurudwara n ...
, Bollywood actress
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Gita Bhartiji
*Geeta Chopra, involved in the
Geeta and Sanjay Chopra kidnapping case
The Gita, or the ''Bhagavad Gita'', is a Sanskrit text, part of the ''Mahabharata''.
Gita or Geeta may also refer to:
Music
* ''Gita'' (album), an album by Raul Seixas
* ''Geeta'' (album), an album by Charles Lloyd
* Mahāgīta, the complete ...
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Geeta Citygirl
Geeta Citygirl (born October 6, 1971) is an actress, dancer, director, producer and the founder and artistic director of SALAAM, the first South Asian American theatre, arts and film company in the USA. Based in New York City, the theatre company ...
, actor, dancer, director, producer
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Gita Dey
Gita Dey (5 August 1931 – 17 January 2011) was an Indian actress in Bengali cinema, theatre and Bengali folk theater. She became a stage artist at the age of 6 years. She came to the film industry in 1943. Her first film release was ''Ahuti ...
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Gita Dodova
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Geeta Dutt
Geeta Dutt (born Geeta Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri; 23 November 1930 – 20 July 1972) was an Indian playback singer and a famous Hindi and Bengali classical artist, born in Faridpur before the Partition of India. She found particular prominence as a ...
, Indian singer
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Gita Ghatak
Gita Ghatak (Geeta Ghatak née Ganguly) (23 January 1931 – 17 November 2009) was an Indian actress and singer. She mainly acted in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. Gita Ghatak was also an exponent of ''Rabindra Sangeet''. She had her pri ...
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Gita Gopinath
Gita Gopinath (born 8 December 1971) is an Indian-American economist who has served as the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), since 21 January 2022. She had previously served as chief economist of the IMF be ...
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Gita Gutawa
Aluna Sagita Gutawa (born 11 August 1993), better known as Gita Gutawa, is an Indonesian soprano, actress, and lyricist songwriter. She is also the daughter of composer Erwin Gutawa.
Although she originally studied piano, Gutawa later switche ...
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Geeta Iyengar
Geeta S. Iyengar (7 December 1944 – 16 December 2018), the eldest daughter of Yogacharya B. K. S. Iyengar, was a yoga teacher credited with advancing yoga for women.
Life and work
Geeta Iyengar, eldest daughter of the founder of the worldwide ...
, Yoga teacher
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Gita Johar
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Geeta Kapoor
Geeta Kapoor is an Indian choreographer and television personality. Currently she is judging “India’s Best Dancer”, a dance reality show on Sony TV along with Malaika Arora and Terence Lewis.
Career
Kapoor started her career when she join ...
, Bollywood choreographer
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Gita Kapoor
Gita Kapoor is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'', played by Shobu Kapoor, from 18 February 1993 to 24 September 1998.
Gita has a fierce temper, which is needed to keep her troublesome husband in check. Any success th ...
, a fictional character in the soap opera ''EastEnders''
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Geeta Kapur
Geeta Kapur (born 1943) is a noted Indian art critic, art historian and curator based in New Delhi. She was one of the pioneers of critical art writing in India, and who, as ''Indian Express'' noted, has "dominated the field of Indian contemp ...
(born 1943), Indian art critic and curator
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Gita Mehta
Gita Mehta (née Patnaik; born 1943) is an Indian writer and documentary filmmaker.
Biography
Born in Delhi into a well-known Odia people, Odia family, she is the daughter of Biju Patnaik, an Indian Independence Movement, Indian independence ac ...
(born 1943), Indian writer
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Geeta Nargund, medical director
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Geeta Novotny
Geeta Novotny (born Geeta Bhatnagar) is an American singer, actor, writer and columnist. As a classical singer, Novotny has performed principal roles nationally with opera companies and symphony orchestras at Carnegie Hall, the American Ballet Th ...
, American mezzo-soprano, actor, writer and columnist
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Geeta Patel
Geeta Vasant Patel (born December 22, 1975) is an American film and television director, screenwriter, and producer best known for her work on ''Meet the Patels'' (2014), ''House of the Dragon'' (2022), and ''Ahsoka'' (2023).
Career
In the ...
, American film and television director
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Geeta Phogat
Geeta Phogat (born 15 December 1988) is a freestyle wrestler who won India's first ever gold medal in wrestling at the Commonwealth Games in 2010. She is also the first Indian female wrestler to have qualified for the Olympic Summer Games.
Per ...
, wrestler
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Gita Piramal
Gita Piramal (born 1954) is an Indian writer and business historian.
Education
Gita Piramal was educated in the United Kingdom. Higher education was through India's Bombay University. She holds a PhD in business history (1988), Masters in Hi ...
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Geeta Rani
Geeta Rani (born 16 September 1981) is an Indian weightlifter. She won the gold medal in the Women's +75 kg category at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. She won three silver medals in the Asian Championship in 2004 and a bronze medal
in the 200 ...
, Indian weightlifter
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Geeta Rao Gupta
Geeta Rao Gupta (born 1956 in Mumbai, India) is a Activism, leader on gender, women's issues, and HIV/AIDS who is serving as United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues since May 2023. She previously served as executive directo ...
, AIDS and feminist activist
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J. Geeta Reddy
Jetti Geeta Reddy (born 1947) is an Indian gynecologist and politician of the Indian National Congress. She served as member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly representing the Zahirabad constituency of Sangareddy district from 2014 to 2018 ...
, Indian politician
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Gita Sahgal
Gita Sahgal (born 1956/1957) is an Indian writer, journalist, film director, and women's rights and human rights activist, whose work focusses on the issues of feminism, fundamentalism and racism.
She has been a co-founder and active member of ...
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Geeta Sane
Geeta Janardan Sane (Devanagari: गीता जनार्दन साने) (1907–1991) was a feminist writer from Maharashtra, India.
Early life
Sane was born in Amravati. Her father was a teacher who later trained to be a lawyer ...
, feminist writer
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Gita Siddharth
Gita Siddharth (died 14 December 2019) was an Indian actress and social worker. She acted in mainstream Bollywood as well as art house cinema, like '' Parichay'' (1972), ''Garm Hava'' (1973), and ''Gaman'' (1978).
She was best known for her ro ...
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Geeta Vadhera
Geeta Vadhera is an Indian artist. She has exhibited her oil paintings and has published a book of poetry.
Early life
Geeta Vadhera was born in India to a father who was a poet and a mother who was an artist. She studied for a Bachelor of A ...
, artist
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Gita Wirjawan
Gita Irawan Wirjawan (born 21 September 1965) is an Indonesian investment banker, entrepreneur, philanthropist, musician, and podcaster. Previously, he served as Minister of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia during President Susilo Bambang Yudho ...
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Geeta Zutshi, Indian athlete
See also
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Gita (disambiguation)
References
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