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] 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.