Urvashi Butalia

Urvashi Butalia is an Indian feminist and publisher. She is currently the director and CEO of Zubaan Books. With over thirty-five years of experience in feminist and independent publishing, she has a formidable reputation in the industry in India and abroad. She has long been involved in the women’s movement in India and is a well-known writer in academia and the literary world. She has several works to her credit, key among which is her pathbreaking study of Partition, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India, which won the Oral History Book Association Award and the Nikkei Asia Award for Culture. She has also taught publishing for over twrenty years and is on the advisory boards of a number of national and international organizations. She has received many awards, among which are the Pandora Award for women’s publishing, the French Chevalier des Artes et des Lettres, and the Padma Shree.