Bishakha Datta

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Bishakha Datta
Bishakha Datta en AWID 2016 (cropped).jpg
Bishakha Datta at AWID 2016
Occupation(s)Journalist, Filmmaker

Bishakha Datta is a film maker, activist and a former journalist. [1] She is the co-founder and executive director of Point of View, based in Mumbai, a non-profit working in the area of gender, sexuality and women's rights. [2] She also serves on the board of nonprofit organizations including Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action and the Wikimedia Foundation (2010–2014), [3] where she was the first Indian to serve on the board of trustees. [1] [4]

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Life and works

In 1998, Datta edited And Who Will Make the Chapatis? , an overview of the all-women political panchayats formed in Maharashtra, India. [5] In 2003, her documentary In the Flesh: three lives in prostitution was released. [6] [7]

References

  1. 1 2 Kurup, Deepa (14 April 2010). "And now, Wikipedia India's new face". The Hindu. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  2. ↑ "Board". Point of View. Archived from the original on 17 March 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "Press releases: Bishakha Datta to join Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees". Wikimedia Foundation. 5 April 2010. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "Q&A with Bishakha Datta: First Indian on Wikimedia board of trustees". Mint. 6 April 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
  5. ↑ "Book Review: And Who Will Make the Chapatis?". SAWNET. 16 February 2009. Archived from the original on 17 February 2007. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  6. ↑ "The Hindu : Sex, truth, and videotape". The Hindu. 29 August 2002. Archived from the original on 31 August 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  7. ↑ Sharma, Kanika (15 November 2013). "Flesh Talkies". MiD DAY . Retrieved 5 November 2014.


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