Urvashi Butalia started Zubaan, a renowned publishing house in 2003. Used in Hindu culture as a greeting, as a goodbye, and to everything in between Jai Ma is a powerful phrase made up of two. Recently, she was also conferred a Padmashree by for her contribution to the nation. Jai Ma, Jai Ma, she said as we hung up the phone. Butalia is a consultant for Oxfam India and she holds the position of Reader at the College of Vocational Studies at the University of Delhi. Her writing has appeared in several newspapers including The Guardian, The Statesman, The Times of India and several magazines including Outlook, the New Internationalist and India Today. She worked as an editor for Zed Publishing and later went on to set up her own publishing house. AN UNDISPUTED CLASSIC, IT METICULOUSLY LOCATES THE INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES AND PRIVATE PAIN AT THE HEART OF THIS CATACLYSMIC EVENT. in literature from Miranda House, Delhi University in 1971, a Masters in literature from Delhi University in 1973, and a Masters in South Asian Studies from the University of London in 1977. URVASHI BUTALIAS THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE WAS THE FIRST MAJOR WORK TO EXHUME THE PERSONAL TRAUMA OF THE PARTITION. She is the Director and Co-founder of Kali for Women, India's first feminist publishing house.īutalia was born in Ambala India in 1952. Urvashi Butalia is an Indian feminist and historian.
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