Bishakha Datta is an Indian journalist and film-maker, best known for her work documenting the role of women in different aspects of Indian society. She also supports or serves on the board of directors of several nonprofit organizations, including Point of View, Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action

Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action

Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action is an organization based in Delhi and the United States that promotes women's human rights and sexual rights for all people...

, and (as of April 2010) the Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based...

.

Life and works

In 1998, Datta edited And Who Will Make the Chapatis?

And Who Will Make the Chapatis?

And Who Will Make the Chapatis? is an overview of the all-women political panchayats formed in Maharashtra, India, where policy changes in the latter half of the 20th century explicitly created space for women in local, rural government, and gave their governing bodies funds and a mandate to...

, an overview of the all-women political panchayats formed in Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

, India. In 2003, her documentary In the Flesh: three lives in prostitution

In the Flesh (2003 film)

In the Flesh: three lives in prostitution is a 2003 independent documentary by Bishakha Datta about the lives of three Indian sex workers, written for a family audience. It is a low-budget film set in Calcutta and Mumbai that describes the everyday life of its subjects.It was filmed in 2000, and...

was released.

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