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Urvashi Butalia

Urvashi Butalia is the co-founder of Kali for Women, India’s first feminist publisher, and is Director of its imprint Zubaan. Her works include The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. She lives in Delhi.

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Five Things Right Now | The Online Edition

Five Things Right Now | The Online Edition

Five Things Right Now: Urvashi Butalia

Urvashi Butalia

Urvashi Butalia is the co-founder of Kali for Women, India’s first feminist press. She shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Two Minutes Too Long

Urvashi Butalia

‘What did our government mean by asking us to mourn for these deaths in America?’

In Conversation | The Online Edition

In Conversation | The Online Edition

Urvashi Butalia | Interview

Urvashi Butalia & Saskia Vogel

‘Feminist movements everywhere in the world are born of the particular political and economic realities of the places where they exist.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 115

Essays & Memoir | Issue 115

Mona’s Story

Urvashi Butalia

‘I’m a woman, I’ve always wanted to be one, it’s that simple.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 91

Essays & Memoir | Issue 91

The Weather Where We Are

Various Contributors

‘Ice gets into the sea in two ways: it falls in from calving glaciers, or it forms during the winter. Both kinds are spectacular.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 91

Essays & Memoir | Issue 91

Blood

Urvashi Butalia

‘Stories are all that people have, stories that rarely breach the frontiers of family and religious community’