Speakers

Urvashi Butalia

Urvashi Butalia is the Co-founder of India's first feminist publishing house, Kali for Women (1984). Butalia currently runs Zubaan, another feminist imprint. She is an independent writer and researcher, with a five decade long involvement in the women's movement in India, writing and publishing widely on a range of issues regarding women and gender. Among her best known publications is the award-winning history of Partition, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (winner of the Oral History Book Association Award 2001 and the Nikkei Asia Award for Culture 2003). Her new book on the life of a hijra, Mona: The Book of Sundays is forthcoming.