women status active founded 2003 founder urvashi butalia country of origin india distribution worldwide nonfiction topics many fiction genres many imprints many official website www.zubaanbooks.com zubaan books is an imprint of kali for women india s first citation needed feminist publishing house . 1 contents 1 history 2 meaning of zubaan 3 genres and imprints 4 authors 5 references 6 external links history edit in 1984 urvashi butalia and ritu menon founded kali for women india s first feminist publishing house . its objectives were to publish quality work which meet international standards . over the years it has become an important publishing house nationally and internationally . 2 in 2003 urvashi butalia founded zubaan . in 2011 urvashi butalia and ritu menon were jointly conferred the padma shri award for their contribution to the nation by government of india . 3 meaning of zubaan edit the word zubaan comes from hindustani and means literally tongue but it has many other meanings such as voice language speech and dialect . genres and imprints edit zubaan has a considerable list of academic books examining issues of gender . it has a growing list of autobiographies of women the best known of which is a life less ordinary by baby halder . as part of its initiative to publish broadbased popular books zubaan regularly publishes fiction by women writers . genres range from literary fiction to science fiction to speculative fiction . under the imprint of young zubaan there is also a growing list of fiction for the age group 6 to 18 including books like riddle of the seventh stone . authors edit baby halder bama tabish khair vandana singh salma priya sarukkai chabbria anjum hasan susan visvanathan urvashi butalia mahua sarkar salim kidwai janaki nair uma chakravarti farah naqvi references edit smruti koppikar august 16 2013 . noted feminist to step down as director of zubaa . hindustantimes.com . retrieved 20 october 2014 . a note from zubaan books . sacw.net . retrieved 20 october 2014 . padma awards announced press release . ministry of home affairs . 25 january 2011 . retrieved 16 august 2013 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title zubaan books & oldid 695431728 categories book publishing companies of indiapublishing companies established in 2004feminist book publishing companiescompanies based in delhihidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from december 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 16 december 2015 at 00 54 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view