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Five-day Gita Jayanti celebration at Gujarat Vidyapith
November 30, 2025 8:38 pm
Gujarat Vidyapith, founded by Mahatma Gandhi, will host a five-day Gita Jayanti celebration from December 1–5, featuring lectures, recitations and discussions on the Gita and Gandhi’s philosophy.
Geeta calls Swaraj 'guardian' who cared for her 'like mother'
August 07, 2019 4:54 pm
A tearful Geeta, through sign language, said Swaraj used to be concerned about her well-being "like a mother".
How Sushma Swaraj brought back Geeta and Hamid Ansari from Pakistan
August 07, 2019 5:27 pm
Swaraj had continued to take interest in the search for Geeta's parents even after she was back in India. On the day Hamid Ansari returned, his mother had said of Swaraj, 'My madam is great. She did everything.'
Geeta meets Jharkhand couple who claim to be her parents, fails to recognise them
October 27, 2017 8:17 pm
Collector Nishant Warwade said, "Since I don't know sign language, I won't be able to give precise answer at this moment as to whether Geeta recognised the family or not. DNA test would show whether the couple are her biological parents."
Geeta, who returned to India from Pakistan, hoists tricolour at Indore
January 27, 2016 9:59 am
She hoisted a 21 x 14 feet national flag in the presence of hundreds of people at Regal crossing in Indore.
Moving 2016: Homeless
December 27, 2015 12:29 pm
2015 was the year of migrants. To mark 2016, The Sunday Express tracks 16 people who moved home in 2015, some of them in public glare, some just a footnote in India’s internal migrants story, to begin new lives.
Sooner or later, Salman Khan will come meet her, Geeta hopes
December 27, 2015 9:31 am
Geeta had strayed into Pakistan onboard the Samjhauta Express that crosses the border at Attari in Punjab. She landed in Karachi, and spent 15 years there.
Geeta’s DNA sample did not match with Bihar family: Govt
November 20, 2015 4:49 am
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will travel to Indore on November 23 to meet Geeta and enquire about her well-being.
Geeta fails to recognise couple claiming to be her parents
November 06, 2015 10:27 pm
Geeta, who lived in Pakistan for about 15 years after accidentally landing in the country as a child, is currently lodged at an institution for the hearing and speech-impaired in Indore.
Family from Alwar claims Geeta is their daughter
August 20, 2018 3:00 pm
The family from Semla Khurd village in Govindgarh tehsil of Alwar, claimed that Geeta is their daughter Hansira, who had vanished in 2003, and that their other daughter resembles Geeta.
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Geeta's homecoming: Father says it's rebirth for the family
October 26, 2015 6:01 pm
Geeta, a deaf-mute Indian woman who accidentally crossed over to Pakistan more than a decade ago, today arrived in New Delhi to meet her long-lost family.
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