Bishakha Datta

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10th Wikipedia meet, held at Sophia college, Mumbai,on October, 31st, 2010
Bishakha Datta
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Bishakha Datta at Wikimedia Conference 2013
Occupation Journalist, Filmmaker

Bishakha Datta is an Indian 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.[4][1]

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]

Wikipedia's 10th year celebration

This momentous celebration was held at Sophia college, Mumbai, on October, 31st, 2010,where Jimmy Wales,addressed the convention.

References

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