Ritu Menon

• Name — Ritu Menon • Born — 1949 • Occupation — * Publisher • writer • editor • journalist • biographer • women's rights activist • Years Active — 1984–present • Title — * Co-founder of Kali for Women • Founder of Women Unlimited • Movement — Feminism • Organization — International Alliance of Independent Publishers • Notable Works — * Borders & Boundaries: Women in India's Partition • Out of Line: A Literary and Political Biography of Nayantara Sahgal • Zohra! A Biography in Four Acts • Education — Miranda House • Spouse — A. G. Krishna Menon • Awards — Padma Shri (2011) • Known for — Feminist publishing

Menon was born in 1949. She attended Miranda House at the University of Delhi. Menon is married to architect A. G. Krishna Menon, also known as "Pogey".

In 1984, Menon co-founded Kali for Women, India's first exclusively feminist publishing house, along with Urvashi Butalia, her longtime collaborator. In 2003, Kali for Women shut shop due to lack of commercial viability compounded by irreconcilable personal differences between Menon and Butalia. Thereafter, 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. Over a Zoom call, she talked about Address Book: A Publishing Memoir in the time of COVID, which she wrote during the pandemic without an explicit plan to publish a book. “It became a form of putting down what I was going through, remembering, thinking, reading, and worrying about,” she says (13 July 2021).

Ritu Menon worked in feminism and gender studies. She belonged to International Alliance of Independent Publishers. She worked at Delhi.