URVASHI BUTALIA Publisher and author

Urvashi Butalia is an Indian feminist and historian. She is the Director and Co-founder of Kali for Women, India’s first feminist publishing house. Her writing has appeared in several newspapers including the Guardian, The Statesman, The Times of India, The Hindu and several magazines such as Outlook, New Internationalist and India Today. She was also conferred the Padma Shri award for her contribution to Indian literature in 2011. She is known for her book, The Other Side of Silence which is the product of more than 70 interviews Butalia conducted with survivors of the Partition.