Kalpana Sharma is an independent journalist, columnist and author based in Mumbai. In almost five decades as a journalist specializing in developmental, environmental and gender issues, she has worked with Himmat Weekly, Indian Express, Times of India and The Hindu. She was Consulting Editor with Economic & Political Weekly and Readers’ Editor with Scroll.in. Her column on gender, ‘The Other Half’ ran for 30 years first in Indian Express and then The Hindu. Currently, she writes a media column in Newslaundry.com and a gender column in Mathrubhumi.
Her latest book is The Silence and the Storm: Narratives of Violence Against Women in India (2019). She is also the author of Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia’s Largest Slum (2000). Additionally, she has edited Single by Choice, Happily Unmarried Women (2019) and Missing: Half the Story, Journalism as if Gender Matters (2010), and co-edited Whose News? The Media and Women’s Issues (1994/2006), and Terror Counter-Terror: Women Speak Out (2003).
Email: kalpu.sharma@gmail.com
Twitter: @kalpana1947