Aged around 55, '
friends and family of LGBT, given all the documentation we have given of the Porno-pediac tendencies, is it any wonder to find out that
Bishakha Datta's main claim to fame is promoting that prostitution is a woman's right and can be empowering and a good thing? (From,
New Internationalist magazine).
She is currently researching ‘Selling Sex’ ... so does that mean we look forward to endless Porn-bios of Indian sex performers too!?! She dissed Slumdog Millionaire as The "garbage tourism" and "poverty porn".
By now, of course, the internet is awash with press releases about the appointment. Could be very right on ... but it all makes me wonder if it is just window-dressing the second woman on the board. I could imagine she is gifted and ambitious enough to use the Porno-pedia appointment, amongst all the other directorships, for herself and push it in India to the right people.
Great. Just what Indian needs. More unpaid labor for children.
So ... rich Indian, goes to Stanford University to "do communication", picks up some "liberal" ideas (pro-prostitution, pro-abortion etc), goes back to India where even the not-for-profits orgs have housekeepers (nice touch) to recycle them? Worli is where the rich and famous of Bombay live.
QUOTE(Bishakh Datta @ Tue 6th April 2010, 1:29am)
I have no objections to porn per se - there's good porn and bad porn.
Women in prostitution do not necessarily consider themselves victims, it’s just the society that views them so. These women do not need pity and charity but empathy like any other marginalized human being.
She has made her phone, emails, addresses all public (see, Ford Foundation or British Council). If anyone cares to write and introduce our work, the issues of concern we raise here, and engage her on useful and enlightening conversation, try one of these:
pov@bom3.vsnl.net.in
pointofview@vsnl.com
bishakha@vsnl.com