# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/urvashi-butalia
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:22:08.942Z

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name: "Urvashi Butalia"
slug: "urvashi-butalia"
description: "Urvashi Butalia is an Indian feminist writer, publisher, and activist. She is known for her work in the women's movement of India, as well as for authoring books such as The Other Side of Silence: Voices from and the Partition of India and Speaking Peace: Women's Voices from Kashmir. She is a visiting faculty at Ashoka University."
tagline: "Indian feminist and historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/UrvashiButalia.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1952"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump