Chitra
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'''Chitra''' could refer to
* ''Chitra'' (चित्र) is a [[nakshatra]]. It is also a common [[hindu]] name for the female child in [[India]] derived from the [[sanskrit]] word for portrait or picture. Girls born under the star Chitra (Chitirai) are sometimes given this name.
* The following people carry the name Chitra:
** [[Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni]], an Indian-American author, poet, and professor of English
** [[Chitra Bharucha]], a former Consultant Haematologist and Vice Chair of the BBC Trust
** [[Chitra Ganesh]], an artist based in Brooklyn, New York
** [[Chitra Singh]], a female ''ghazal'' singer
** [[Chitra K. Soman]], an Indian sprinter
** [[Chitra Subramaniam]], an Indian journalist
** [[K. S. Chithra]], a popular Indian playback singer
** [[Chitra Bahadur K.C.]] is a Nepalese politician
** [[Chitra Lekha Yadav]] is a Nepalese politician
* ''Chitra'' is the title of a play written by the Bengali poet and Nobel laureate [[Rabindranath Tagore]]
* [[Chitra (genus)]], a turtle genus
** [[Chitra indica]], a narrow-headed soft-shelled turtle
* Chitra is a river in the [[Narail District]] of southwestern Bangladesh
* [[Chitrakar]], "One who paints" (chitra means a [[painting]])
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