Urvashi Butalia is the co-founder of India’s first feminist publishing house, Kali for Women, established in 1984. When Kali shut down in 2003, she launched Zubaan, another feminist imprint. Butalia has been actively involved in the women’s movement in India for a long time and is an independent researcher and writer who publishes widely on various gender-related issues. Among her best-known publications is The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India, an award-winning oral history of Partition. The book received the Oral History Book Association Award in 2001 and the Nikkei Asia Award for Culture in 2003. She is currently working on the life of her hijra friend, Mona Ahmed.
