Zubaan was originally set up as a non-profit Trust. Alongside the Trust, Zubaan now operates as a private company, Zubaan Publishers Pvt. Ltd. The company is owned by five shareholders - Urvashi Butalia, founder and CEO founder of Zubaan, along with senior editors Anita Roy, Preeti Gill, Shweta Vachani and chief financial officer, Satish Sharma.
Although set up as an NGO, Zubaan has effectively functioned like a business, and donor funds have formed a very small part of its work. It is largely self-sustaining, although at a very modest level, and primarily because its employees work at modest wages for a cause.
In a rapidly changing marketplace, Zubaan had two choices before it: one, to continue functioning as a Trust and two, to turn itself into a company, owned by its staff (key staff who would become shareholders of the company). Zubaan has taken the unusual step of doing both: separating Zubaan’s activities into two: the income generating activities like publishing books, and the more ‘social’ activities that have a wider goal of improving women’s lives. The Trust, therefore, will be retained, but only for projects and other social activities such as organizing workshops, while the company will publish books, organize events related to books, work with authors etc.
Zubaan’s name is associated strongly with high quality fiction by women in South Asia, both in translation and written in English. Our trade non-fiction includes memoirs, popular history and books on the women’s movement for a general audience. Under the Young Zubaan imprint, we also publish a range of fiction and non-fiction titles for younger adults and children.
Alongside our publishing activities, Zubaan functions as a not-for-profit trust handling a variety of research and outreach projects in the areas of gender, feminism and the women’s movement.
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