Urvashi Butalia is a publisher, researcher and writer. Co-founder of Kali for Women, India's first feminist publishing house, she now heads Zubaan, an imprint of Kali, set up in 2003, now seen as being a cutting-edge, innovative and independent publisher. She has for long been involved in the women's and civil rights movements in , and has engaged with campaigns for equality and dignity, and human rights. She writes regularly for a number of newspapers and magazines in and abroad, and has published a number of books, notable among which is The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India, which won the Oral History Book Association Award 2001 and the Nikkei Asia Award 2002, and which has been translated into several languages. Butalia has also made a name for herself in publishing, a subject on which she writes extensively, and is currently Chairperson of the Publishing Cell of the Confederation of Indian Industry. She also heads the Women in Publishing India group.