Bidisha began writing professionally for style magazines such as i-D, Dazed and Confused, and the NME, at the age of 14, and published her first novel at 18.
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Bidisha writes for The Guardian and The Observer and works as a TV and radio critic and presenter for the BBC, Sky News, ITN, Channel 5 and CNN.
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Bidisha went to school at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls in Elstree, Hertfordshire.
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Bidisha then studied at the London School of Economics, where she gained an MSc in Moral and Political Philosophy and Economic History.
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Bidisha was a contributing editor of the women's literary magazine Sibyl and the style magazine 2nd Generation, and has written for The Guardian, the Financial Times, Mslexia, The Observer, the New Statesman, and arts magazine The List.
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Bidisha's role is to focus on international health development issues as part of a global network of reporters.
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Bidisha was one of the judges for the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction, and was announced as one of the judges of the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
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Bidisha is a patron of the SI Leeds Literary Prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women in the UK.
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In parallel with her writing, Bidisha has developed a career as a radio and TV arts critic and presenter.
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Bidisha is a regular guest on The Big Questions and Sunday Morning Live, and appeared as a regular panellist on Newsnight Review.
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Bidisha was one of the regular presenters of BBC Radio 3's flagship arts programme, Night Waves.
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Bidisha's next visual project was a series of video shorts called the Aurora series, of which the first is Aurora: All is Well.