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).