Bidisha

Bidisha is a broadcaster and journalist specialising in international affairs, social justice issues, arts and culture and international human rights. She writes for The Guardian and The Huffington Post and works as a TV and radio presenter for the BBC. She also does outreach work in UK detention centres and prisons, in affiliation with literary and human rights organisation English PEN.

She blogs at bidisha-online.blogspot.in.

Articles by Bidisha

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“Rescue isn’t the end of the story”: reclaiming selves and circus tricks in Even When I Fall

Sky Neal and Kate McLarnon’s deft portrait of Nepali women rebuilding their lives after childhoods trafficked into circus performance shows the complexities of rehabilitation from trauma – and the struggle for female self-determination, as the two directors and producer Elhum Shakerifar tell Bidisha.

Saturday, April 14, 2018

Interviews
Millennial filmmakers peer ahead

How now for startup filmmakers? Bidisha talks to seven young talents exhibiting at the finale of the touring Playback Festival in association with Channel 4’s First Acts scheme.

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Features
Syria on screen: how have movies represented the crisis?

Amid a rush of handwringing films dwelling on Syria’s easy spectacles of horror, argues Bidisha, there are also many more nuanced and resonant films made by people on the ground, listening to voices that otherwise go unheard.

Friday, August 4, 2017

Features
It gets dystopian: where are the female superheroes?

When it comes to winning female superheroes in 21st-century Hollywood blockbusters, Katniss Everdeen really is one in a million, says Bidisha.

Saturday, November 22, 2014

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