[Reader-list] Culture Cafe Talk by Urvashi Butalia: Feminist! Independent! Successful? Tracing a Life in Publishing

[Shilpa Phadke]

*Culture Cafe*

*School of Media and Cultural Studies,*

*Tata Institute of Social Sciences*

invites you to a talk


**Feminist! Independent! Successful? Tracing a Life in Publishing**

 by

*Urvashi Butalia *



*Date: *Thursday, 08 August, 2013

*Time: *06:00 PM

*Venue: *Old Conference Hall, Main Campus, TISS,

V.N. Purav Marg, Deonar, Mumbai - 400088


*About the Talk *In this talk, Urvashi Butalia traces her (accidental)
entry into the world of publishing, and her instant and ongoing love affair
with it, and over time, her decision to become a feminist publisher, as
well as the ups and downs of surviving as an independent, small publisher
in India and internationally. Through doing this, she traces the changes
that have taken place - and there are many, and very major - in the world
of books in India since the seventies when she joined, and looks at what
the future may b...e like, given the major and very rapid advances in
technology. The talk will be mainly anecdotal, informal, and will probably
raise more questions than it will answer.*
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*About the Speaker*
*Urvashi Butalia is an Indian feminist and historian. She is Co-founder of
Kali for Women, India's first feminist publishing house. She is currently
Director of Zubaan, an imprint of Kali for Women. She has long been
involved in the women's movement. She writes on a range of issues, and is
author of the award winning book of oral histories of the Partiition, The
Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. 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. Recently, she was also conferred a Padmashree
by for her contribution to the nation. Urvashi Butalia is currently Scholar
in Residence at the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of
Social Sciences, Mumbai.
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