Speakers

Ritu Menon

Ritu Menon is a feminist publisher and writer, who co-founded India’s first feminist press, Kali for Women, in 1984, and set up Women Unlimited in 2003. She is an active member of the Paris-based International Alliance of Independent Publishers and is the author of the critically acclaimed Borders and Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition and of two widely read biographies: Out of Line: a Literary & Political Biography of Nayantara Sahgal; and ZOHRA! A Biography in Four Acts. Her most recent publication is: India on Their Minds: 8 Women, 8 Ideas of India. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2011.