Urvashi Butalia

Urvashi Butalia is an independent feminist researcher and writer based in Delhi. Co-founder of India’s first feminist publishing house Kali for Women in 1984, she is currently Director of Zubaan, an imprint of Kali. She writes and publishes widely in India and abroad. Amongst her best-known publications is the award-winning oral 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) and an edited volume Partition: The Long Shadow. She has several awards to her credit including the Padmashree and the Goethe Medaille.