Famous People with Name Urvashi

Urvashi Butalia            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Urvashi Butalia: an Indian feminist and historian. She is the Director and Co-founder of Kali for Women, India's first feminist publishing house.Butalia was born in Ambala India in 1952. She earned a B.A. in literature from Miranda House, Delhi University in 1971, a Masters in literature from Delhi University in 1973, and a Masters in South Asian Studies from the University of London in 1977.She worked as an editor for Zed Publishing and later went on to set up her own publishing house. Her writing has appeared in several newspapers including The Guardian, The Statesman, The Times of India and several magazines including Outlook, the New Internationalist and India Today. Butalia is a consultant for Oxfam India and she holds the position of Reader at the College of Vocational Studies at the University of Delhi. Her main areas of research are partition and oral histories. She has also written on gender, communalism, fundamentalism and media.

Shona Urvashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Shona Urvashi: She graduated with a BA in Economics from Nowrosjee Wadia College Pune (Pune University).She further went on to study film making at the Vancouver film school. Her student film Maya's story has won and been nominated for several awards. She is also the sister of Bollywood actor Masumeh.