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.
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Broad views about life have shrunk into religions, and we have been turned into their symbols. They regard us as empty symbols. Symbols of a religion, a nation.
Urvashi Butalia, Katha: Short Stories by Indian Women
Twelve million people were displaced as a result of Partition. Nearly one million died.
Urvashi Butalia, Other Side Of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India
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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.
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