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Urvashi Butalia
Urvashi Butalia is a feminist writer and publisher. She co-founded Kali for Women, India's first feminist publishing house and, when Kali closed down in 2003, she set up Zubaan, a feminist publishing house of which she is now Director. She has a long involvement in the women's movement in India and writes and publishes widely on issues related to women and gender. Her best known published work is the award-winning history of Partition titled The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. She is currently completing a new non fiction work on the life of a transwoman.
Sessions
Brave New World - Covid and the Arts
Ananth Padmanabhan, Shashi Tharoor, K.R. Meera, Kanishka Gupta, Marcus du Sautoy, Namita Gokhale and Urvashi Butalia in conversation with Sanjoy K Roy
A session exploring resilience and innovation from the arts to the isolation and extreme disruptions of the pandemic. Writers, artists and book lovers speak of responding to unforeseen challenges and the creativity and solidarity that rose to the fore through these difficult times.
Bapsi Sidhwa: Between the Silences
Bapsi Sidhwa in conversation with Urvashi Butalia
Celebrated Zoroastrian novelist Bapsi Sidhwa speaks to writer and feminist publisher Urvashi Butalia about her creative journey across cultures, continents and chronicles, and what she calls her ‘Punjabi-Pakistani -Parsi’ roots. Her novels 'Ice Candy Man' and 'Water: A Novel' were adapted by Deepa Mehta for the acclaimed films 'Earth and Water. A bio-pic' , 'Bapsi: The Silences of My Life' is currently in production.