Bidisha SK Mamata
Bidisha is a broadcaster, presenter, journalist and artist making films and stills.
Her latest publication is an essay called ‘The Future of Serious Art’ (2020, Tortoise Media), and her latest film series, Aurora, also launched in 2020 and is ongoing. Bidisha specialises in international human rights, social justice and the arts and offers political analysis, arts critique and cultural diplomacy tying these interests together.
She writes for the main UK broadsheets (currently as a dance, art and book critic for the Observer and the Guardian) and presents and commentates for BBC TV and radio, ITN, CNN, ViacomCBS and Sky News, where she has been a regular for five years.
Her fifth book, Asylum and Exile: Hidden Voices of London (2015), is based on her outreach work in UK prisons, refugee charities and detention centres. Her first short film, An Impossible Poison, received its London premiere in March 2018. It has been highly critically acclaimed and selected for numerous international film festivals.