Kalpana Sharma

Kalpana Sharma is an independent journalist and author based in Mumbai. In over four decades as a journalist, she has worked with Himmat Weekly, the Indian Express, the Times of India, and The Hindu, and as Consulting Editor with Economic & Political Weekly. She is the author of Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia’s Largest Slum (2000), and has edited Single by Choice: Happily Unmarried Women (2019), Missing: Half the Story, Journalism as if Gender Matters (2010). She has also co-edited Whose News?: The Media and Women’s Issues (1994/2006), and Terror Counter-Terror: Women Speak Out (2003).