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Ritu Menon is an Indian feminist, writer and publisher.In 1984, Menon co-founded Kali for Women, India's first exclusively feminist publishing house, along with Urvashi Butalia, her longtime collaborator. Later Menon independently founded Women Unlimited, another feminist publishing house.
She has also written numerous newspaper articles and op-eds. Her writing focuses on violence against women, religion's take on women and the gender divide across the society from a strongly feminist and left-wing perspective.
She is the recipient of the Raza Fellowship (2018) for her book on the biography of Zohra Segal, an Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer entitled “Zohra! a Biography in Four Acts”