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    • Address Book: A Publishing Memoir In the time of COVID

    Ritu Menon

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    Locked down and housebound, the author leafs through her address book, looking for a name and number from long ago. As she turns the pages and sees the entries in it, she recalls the many remarkable encounters and experiences she has had in her 35 years as a feminist publisher. Writers, publishers, friends and co-travellers, all part of an international women’s movement and of an internationalism in publishing that set it apart from the multinational corporate model, then and now. The books she made, the authors she published, the issues she raised, and the friendships she forged, North and South — this little book offers a glimpse into what has been a wonderfully rich and rewarding feminist endeavour, and the sheer exhilaration of being at its cutting edge.

    Ritu Menon

    Ritu Menon co-founded Kali for Women, India’s first feminist press, in 1984, and is founder-director of Women Unlimited, an associate of KfW. She is the author of several books, among them the groundbreaking Borders & Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition; Out of Line: a literary and political biography of Nayantara Sahgal; Loitering With Intent: Diary of a Happy Traveller; and editor of a number of anthologies of prose, poetry and memoirs. ZOHRA! A Biography in Four Acts is her latest book.

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    Reviews

    Each date and entry in the book treat Menon’s decades-long experience as a publisher, the evolution of feminist publishing in India and abroad, and the complex dynamics and challenges in the industry

    Suchismita Ghosh, Publishing Research Quarterly (PRQ)

    Publishing books of cultural and historical value; forging bonds with feminist presses worldwide; and striving for bibliodiversity in publishing...

    Ritu Menon, HT’s Books & Authors podcast

    'Feminist publishing is a development activity. It is not just about producing books': Ritu Menon on Address Book

    Ritu Menon, Firstpost.Com

    Menon’s memoir, encapsulating her career as publisher and writer, recording stories of women and their movements, is a testament to Vandana Shiva’s belief that ‘monocultures of the mind’ must be resisted at all cost.

     , The Hindu

    Address Book... is not only a repository of her [Menon’s] numerous friendships and professional relationships but also a veritable map of her wanderings across the globe, a testimony to a life richly lived, beliefs firmly guarded.

     , Mint