TALK "Kali’s Women: Thirty Years of Feminist Publishing and Counting" at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 18th August 2016

Time : 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 18/08/2016 19:00 18/08/2016 20:30 Asia/Kolkata TALK "Kali’s Women: Thirty Years of Feminist Publishing and Counting" Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/08/talk-kalis-women-thirty-years-of.html Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

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Venue : Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : TALK "Kali’s Women: Thirty Years of Feminist Publishing and Counting"

The fourth edition of LILA PRISM on ‘Institution as Practice’ opens with a joint talk by two remarkable women—Ritu Menon and Urvashi Butalia—pioneers of independent political publishing in the country. Kali for Women, the first feminist publishing house in India, showed us how to integrally link the aesthetics and mechanics of book publishing with a relevant political context. Urvashi and Ritu tell us of their herstoric journey together, as well as of their individual quests now, at LILA PRISM 2016—for the first time. Do not miss it.

Urvashi Butalia co-founded Kali for Women in 1984 along with Ritu Menon. In 2003, she founded Zubaan. Her path-breaking study of Partition, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India won the Oral History Book Association Award and the Nikkei Asia Award for Culture. Her other works include Inner Line: Stories by Indian Women (co-edited with Ritu Menon), Speaking Peace: Womens Voices from Kashmir (edited), Women and the Hindu Right: A Collection of Essays, (co-edited with Tanika Sarkar) Partition: The Long Shadow (edited). She is on the advisory boards of a number of national and international organizations. Among the awards she received are the Pandora award for womens publishing, and the French Chevalier des Artes et des Lettres, the Nikkei Asia Award for Culture. Urvashi and Ritu Menon jointly wrote a monograph, Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South, and also jointly received the Padma Shri, the highest civilian honour awarded by the Indian government, for their work in feminist publishing.


Ritu Menon co-founded Kali for Women in 1984 along with Urvashi Butalia. In 2003, she founded Women Unlimited. Her works include Just Between Us: Women Speak About their Writing, and Storylines: Conversations with Women Writers (co-edited), From Mathura to Manorama: Resisting Violence Against Women in India (co-authored with Kalpana Kannabiran), Borders & Boundaries: Women in Indias Partition (edited), Unequal Citizens: A Study of Muslim Women in India (co-authored with Zoya Hasan), Making a Difference: Memoirs from the Womens Movement in India (edited), Out of Line: A Literary and Political Biography of Nayantara Sahgal, and numerous anthologies of interviews, stories and poetry, with and by women writers in India. Ritu is Founding member of Womens WORLD, and Womens Feature Service (India), and member of the International Alliance of Independent Publishers (France). She is advisor of various national and international academic journals, and her articles and op-eds focus on feminism and violence, religion and social order.  Ritu and Urvashi jointly wrote a monograph, Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South, and also jointly received the Padma Shri, the highest civilian honour awarded by the Indian government, for their work in feminist publishing.

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