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'''Bishakha Datta''' is a film maker, activist and a former journalist.<ref name="newface">{{cite web | title = And now, Wikipedia India's new face|work=The Hindu | url = http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/and-now-wikipedia-indias-new-face/article396385.ece <br />
|date=14 April 2010| access-date = 2014-11-05 | first = Deepa | last = Kurup }}</ref> She is the co-founder and executive director of [[Point of View, Mumbai|Point of View]], based in Mumbai, a non-profit working in the area of gender, sexuality and women's rights.<ref>{{cite web | title = Board | url = http://www.pointofview.org/about-us/Board.aspx | work = Point of View | access-date = 2014-11-05 | archive-date = 17 March 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190317081135/http://pointofview.org/about-us/Board.aspx | url-status = dead }}</ref> She also serves on the board of nonprofit organizations including [[Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action]] and the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] (2010-2014),<ref>{{cite web | title = Press releases: Bishakha Datta to join Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees|work= Wikimedia Foundation | url = https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Bishakha_Datta_to_join_Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees |date=5 April 2010| access-date = 2014-11-05 }}</ref> where she was the first Indian to serve on the [[board of trustees]].<ref name="newface" /><ref><br />
{{cite news|url=http://www.livemint.com/2010/04/06161429/QampA-with-Bishakha-Datta-F.html?h=B|title=Q&A with Bishakha Datta: First Indian on Wikimedia board of trustees|date=6 April 2010|publisher=[[Mint (newspaper)|Mint]] |access-date=6 April 2010}}</ref><br />
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== Life and works ==<br />
In 1998, Datta edited ''[[And Who Will Make the Chapatis?]]'', an overview of the all-women political [[panchayat]]s formed in [[Maharashtra]], India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sawnet.org/books/reviews.php?And+Who+Will+Make+the+Chapatis%3F |title=Book Review: And Who Will Make the Chapatis? |publisher=SAWNET |date=2009-02-16 |access-date=2010-11-27}}</ref> In 2003, her documentary ''[[In the Flesh (2003 film)|In the Flesh: three lives in prostitution]]'' was released.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2002/08/29/stories/2002082900250200.htm |title=The Hindu : Sex, truth, and videotape |publisher=The Hindu |date=2002-08-29 |access-date=2010-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100831234308/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2002/08/29/stories/2002082900250200.htm |archive-date=31 August 2010 |url-status=usurped }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Flesh Talkies |work=[[MiD DAY]]| url = http://www.mid-day.com/articles/flesh-talkies/240397 |last=Sharma |first=Kanika |date=15 Nov 2013| access-date = 2014-11-05 }}</ref><br />
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* {{Official website|http://www.pointofview.org/|Point of View, official website}}<br />
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