Bishakha Datta
Bishakha Datta is an Indian film maker, activist and a former journalist. 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. She also serves on the board of nonprofit organizations including Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action and the Wikimedia Foundation (2010–2014), where she was the first Indian to serve on the board of trustees.
Bishakha Datta
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- Bishakha Datta
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- Journalist, Filmmaker
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- India
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- Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant
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Bishakha Datta is an Indian film maker, activist and a former journalist. 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. She also serves on the board of nonprofit organizations including Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action and the Wikimedia Foundation (2010–2014), where she was the first Indian to serve on the board of trustees.
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Bishakha Datta was a documentary filmmaker, film director and journalist, among other activities, of Indian nationality. The documentary filmmaker was a member of Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Honours include Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant.
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• Name — Bishakha Datta • Occupation — Journalist, Filmmaker
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In 1998, Datta edited And Who Will Make the Chapatis?, an overview of the all-women political panchayats formed in Maharashtra, India. In 2003, her documentary In the Flesh: three lives in prostitution was released.
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Bishakha Datta is recorded as film director, writer, journalist and documentary filmmaker.
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- 1.Kurup, Deepa. And now, Wikipedia India's new face. The Hindu. 14 April 2010.
- 2.Board. Point of View.
- 3.Press releases: Bishakha Datta to join Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Wikimedia Foundation. 5 April 2010.
- 4.Mint. Q&A with Bishakha Datta: First Indian on Wikimedia board of trustees. 6 April 2010.
- 5.SAWNET. Book Review: And Who Will Make the Chapatis?. 2009-02-16.
- 6.The Hindu : Sex, truth, and videotape. The Hindu. 2002-08-29.
- 7.Sharma, Kanika. Flesh Talkies. MiD DAY. 15 November 2013.
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