Urvashi Butalia

We are delighted to welcome Urvashi Butalia as a Mercator Fellow to the RTG2840 ‘Ambivalent Enmity’ postgraduate research and training programme for the winter semester of 2025/26, from October to November. Urvashi Butalia co-founded India's first feminist publishing house, Kali for Women, in 1984. She has published extensively in India and internationally. Her best-known works include the award-winning oral history of the Partition of India, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India, which won the Oral History Book Association Award in 2001 and the Nikkei Asia Award for Culture in 2003. She has received numerous awards, including the Padma Shri and the Goethe Medal. She has also taught publishing for over 20 years.