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Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Journalist/ Producer
Location	London, United Kingdom
Introduction	Suswati Basu is a writer, journalist, producer and feminist adventurer residing in London. She has written for the Guardian, Huffington Post and the F-Word blogs, and has worked for various media outlets such as the BBC, Channel 4, ITV News/ITN and currently is a News Intelligence Expert for Twitter. Winner of the Emma Humphries Memorial Prize in 2007, also shortlisted for the Guardian Mary Stott Prize in the same year, and more recently longlisted for the Guardian International Development Journalism Award. Has worked in China, India and the UK and currently writes on a freelance basis. Suswati has also appeared on BBC Radio's Woman's Hour with Jenni Murray as well as BBC News, speaking in regard to feminist issues
Interests	Guitarist, tutoring and managing bands/ roadie, artist, volunteer, photographer, weirdo-scary -music-goer, muchas lenguas, Journalism, Feminism, more -isms, learning flamenco guitar and cajon, dancing- specialised in Kathak, backpacking/jetsetting, random extreme sports and realising I'm afraid of heights...e.t.c
Favorite Movies	LORD OF THE RINGS-ALL 3 The Shining, The Omen-all horror movies- specially eastern horror! Beauty and the Beast, Amelie, Le Clef de Bagnole, Volver, Run Lola Run, Das Experiment, Il Postino, City of God, Pi, Charlie Chaplin- Gold Rush, Modern Times, Michael Moore docs- cos they are funny & only art films when it comes to India: Satyajit Rai films- cos they are damn poignant, Aparna Sen films-Mr & Mrs Iyer, 15 Park Avenue, Page 3, Omkara, Raincoat, Namesake, Water, Ek Hasina Thi, Kaun, Makdee, Shine, Star wars, Matrix, A Clockwork Orange, American History X, Ichi, Lady Vengeance, Waltz with Bashir, The Lives of Others, Hard Candy, Girl Interrupted, Shaun of the Dead, Tale of Two Sisters, Memento, Monster, Rain Man, What's Eating Gilbert's Grape, One Flew over a Cuckoo's Nest, Forrest Gump, Philadelphia, Primal Fear, Sleepers, Se7en, Eternal Sunshine, Pan's Labyrinth, A Very Long Engagement, Persepolis, Grave Of The Fireflies (Studio Ghibli), Howl's Moving Castle, Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive, David Lynch films- Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Some Burton, Woody Allen, Kubrick and Tarantino, other stuff- Stand by Me, ( I miss River Phoenix may you rest in peace), Thelma and Louise and of course Fight Club- Anything with violence and plot does me good. e.t.c..
Favorite Music	Extreme Brutal Black Metal...ahem and disney and ol' 50s/ 80s. What a weird combination...anyways it includes Darkthrone, Emperor, Immortal, Gorgoroth, Mayhem, Burzum, Gallhammer, Marduk, Prostitute Disfigurement, Meshuggah, Sepultura, Misanthrope, Slayer, Arch Enemy, Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Agercocke, Machine Head, Maiden, Metallica, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Hendrix, Satriani, Chuck Berry, Stevie Ray Vaughn, BB King, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Santana, Xue Fei Yang, Dennis Koster, Gerardo Nunez, Paco de Lucia, Isaac Albeniz, Ernesto Nazareth, Roderigo Y Gabriela, Sierra Maestra, Septeto Habanero, BVSC, Manu Chao, Pete Rodriguez, Django Reinhardt, Stephane Graffelli, Mohd Rafi, Al De Meola, Clapton, Cream, Queen, Led Zeppelin, The Police, some Beatles, The Ramones, The Misfits, The Knives, Kate Bush, Blondie, Tori Amos, Portishead, Blues/ country from O' Brother where art thou, Lady and the Tramp, Aladdin, Lion King, Buddy Holly, Peggy lee, Nina Simone, Bill Withers, Bobby Darin, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Dusty, Miles Davis, Rat Pack, mostly Dean Martin, Liszt, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Paganini, Schubert, Bach, Freddy Kempf, Prodigy, Dead Kennedies, The Eels, Primus, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, QOTSA, Gogol Bordello, System of a Down, Tom Waits, Mark Lanegan, BRMC, RHCP, Radiohead bla bla bla (Pretty random extreme stuff all in all)
Favorite Books	Misogny The World's Oldest Prejudice- Jack Holland, Intercourse- Andrea Dworkin, Female Chauvinist Pigs- Ariel Levy, Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess, To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee, A View from a Bridge- Arthur Miller, 1984, Animal Farm-George Orwell, All Quiet on the Western Front-E.M. Remarque, A Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood, Wide Sargasso Sea- Jean Rhys (prefer it to Jane Eyre!), Fight Club/ Haunted- Chuck Palahnuik, Macbeth-Shakespeare- Its just bloody classic, Slave- Mende Nazer/ Damien Lewis- well he offered to write my book and his one was brill, Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka