Anasuya Sengupta

Sengupta in 2013

Anasuya Sengupta is an Indian poet, author, activist, and a cited expert in representation on the internet.[1][2]

Early life

Anasuya was born in 1974 to her father, Abhijit Sengupta, a senior Indian administrative officer, and her mother, Poile Sengupta (née Ambica Gopalakrishnan), a theatre artiste, author, and playwright.[3]

Education

Sengupta studied economics at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, a constituent college of Delhi University in New Delhi, India, where she graduated in 1995 with honours.[4][5][6] She later did her doctoral work in politics at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University, Oxford, England, where she received a master of philosophy degree in development studies in 1998, studying as a Rhodes Scholar.[3][7] Her family background was important to her; she later said "I have grown up in a family that is committed to social justice."[3]

Work and activism

Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton became aware of one of Sengupta's poems in March 1995, when Clinton was the First Lady and visiting India. Later, Clinton used it in her speeches in Delhi and at a United Nations women's conference in Beijing, China.[4][5][8][6][3][9]

(excerpt from "Silence"):

Too many women
in too many countries
speak the same language
of silence

The poem also inspired Clinton to write a chapter in her autobiography, Living History entitled "Silence Is Not Spoken Here".[4][5][8][6][10][3]

Sengupta co-edited Defending Our Dreams: Global Feminist Voices for a New Generation (2005) which was reviewed favorably by Sister Namibia.[11] The Women's Review of Books praised her essay in Defending Our Dreams, calling it a "visionary" work about feminism and the eradication of poverty.[12] In Development in Practice, a reviewer comments that the "connection between dreaming and planning is the most arresting element the book offers to its readers. The dreams of its young contributors, are demonstrating new visions, new skills, and new approaches to development and feminism, which present a potential breakthrough in strategies for promoting social justice and women’s rights."[13] Feminist Studies praised the book and wrote, "This volume does provide a surprisingly cohesive account, for a collection, of the thinking of key feminists about international trends."[14]

Sengupta (far right) in a panel discussion at Wikimania 2017 in Montreal

Sengupta has been the Chief Grantmaking Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, California.[15][16] She has led Whose Knowledge, a group set up to improve online knowledge and information in marginalised parts of the world, including Asia, Africa and Latin America.[17] The group has been described as "a global, multilingual campaign to reimagine the internet to be for and from all." Her work is supported by a fellowship from the Shuttleworth Foundation.[18]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Graham, Mark; Sengupta, Anasuya (2017-10-05). "We're all connected now, so why is the internet so white and western? | Mark Graham and Anasuya Sengupta". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
  2. ↑ "Who edits Wikipedia?, Newshour - BBC World Service". BBC. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Beary, Habib (June 27, 2003). "Indian's silence speaks to Hillary". BBC News. Archived from the original on June 10, 2004. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 Staff writers (July 20, 2009). "DU passout's poem inspired chapter in Clinton's autobiography". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on November 26, 2017. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 Purdum, Todd S. (March 30, 1995). "Hillary Clinton Finding a New Voice". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 18, 2017. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
  6. 1 2 3 Melanne Verveer; Kim K. Azzarelli (October 6, 2015). Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 4–. ISBN 978-0-544-52800-0. Archived from the original on November 26, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Anasuya Sengupta – gladly beyond any distance". sanmathi.org. Archived from the original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  8. 1 2 "Indian social worker Anasuya Sengupta ta". Getty Images. Archived from the original on November 26, 2017. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
  9. ↑ Chakravarthy, Smitha (August 7, 2003). "The Hindu : A poem that moved a Clinton". The Hindu. Archived from the original on January 17, 2004. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
  10. ↑ Paul Amar (September 13, 2013). New Racial Missions of Policing: International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics. Taylor & Francis. pp. 207–. ISBN 978-1-317-98903-5. Archived from the original on November 26, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  11. ↑ "Defending Our Dreams: Global Feminist Voices for a New Generation". Sister Namimbia. December 2005. Retrieved 2 September 2018 – via HighBeam Research. (Subscription required (help)).
  12. ↑ Humphrey, Michelle (July 2006). "New Dreams, New Faces". The Women's Review of Books. Retrieved 2 September 2018 – via HighBeam Research. (Subscription required (help)).
  13. ↑ Alvarez-Manzano, Yessica (2006). "Review of Defending Our Dreams: Global Feminist Voices for a New Generation". Development in Practice. 16 (2): 227–229. JSTOR 4029884.
  14. ↑ Porter, Marilyn (Spring 2007). "Transnational Feminisms in a Globalized World: Challenges, Analysis, and Resistance". Feminist Studies. 33 (1): 43–63 – via EBSCOhost. (Subscription required (help)).
  15. ↑ Hartnell, Caroline (October 9, 2013). "Just published: interview with Anasuya Sengupta of the Wikimedia Foundation – Alliance magazine". Alliance magazine. Archived from the original on September 12, 2015. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
  16. ↑ McCambridge, Ruth (September 24, 2013). "The Radical Passion Economy of Wikipedia: An Interview with Anasuya Sengupta – Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly". NPQ: Nonprofit Quarterly. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
  17. ↑ "MIT Libraries host Grand Challenges Summit". MIT News. March 30, 2018. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
  18. ↑ "Anasuya Sengupta". The Guardian. October 5, 2017. Archived from the original on October 6, 2017. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
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