Ritu Menon is a publisher and writer who has been active in the South Asian women’s movement for over 20 years. She is co-founder of Kali for Women, India’s first and oldest feminist press, and founder of Women Unlimited, an associate of Kali for Women. She is co-author of Borders & Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition (Kali for Women, 1998). Her edited book No Woman’s Land: Women from Pakistan, India & Bangladesh Write about the Partition of India was published by Women Unlimited in 2004. Other books include Educating Muslim Girls: A Comparison of Five Indian Cities (Women Unlimited, 2005) and Unequal Citizens: A Study of Muslim Women in India (2004), both co-authored with Zoya Hasan, and In a Minority: Essays on Muslim Women in India, co-edited with Zoya Hasan (2005). As part of the Core Group of Women’s WORLD, India, Ritu has co-edited Just Between Us: Women Speak About their Writing (Women Unlimited, 2004) and Storylines: Conversations with Women Writers (Women Unlimited, 2003). She also co-authored, with Kalpana Kannabiran, From Mathura to Manorama: Resisting Violence Against Women in India (Women Unlimited, 2007). 

Ritu’s recent books include Loitering with Intent: Diary of a Happy Traveller (Speaking Tiger Books, 2016) and Out of Line: A Literary and Political Biography of Nayantara Sahgal (HarperCollins India, 2018). Address Book, which brings together diary entries (written during the lockdown from Delhi) looking back at her decades in feminist publishing, will be published by Women Unlimited this year. Her biography of Zohra Sahgal is also forthcoming from Speaking Tiger this year.