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]
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 And now, Wikipedia India's new face, Kurup, Deepa(14 April 2010). Retrieved 2014-11-05.
- ↑ Board. Retrieved 2014-11-05.
- ↑ Press releases: Bishakha Datta to join Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees(5 April 2010). Retrieved 2014-11-05.
- ↑ Q&A with Bishakha Datta: First Indian on Wikimedia board of trustees(6 April 2010). Retrieved 6 April 2010.
- ↑ Book Review: And Who Will Make the Chapatis?. SAWNET(2009-02-16). Retrieved 2010-11-27.
- ↑ The Hindu : Sex, truth, and videotape. The Hindu(2002-08-29). Retrieved 2010-11-27.
- ↑ Flesh Talkies, Sharma, Kanika(15 Nov 2013). Retrieved 2014-11-05.