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Bedatri Datta Choudhury

@bedatri.bsky.social
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Arts and Entertainment Editor at @Inquirer.com | Film programmer at DOC NYC, SFFILM | NYC/PHL via CCU/DEL | bchoudhury@inquirer.com

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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The most annoying people are those who'll comment inane shit like "too much clutter" or "the dresser should be maroon" in Architectural Digest posts on homes and interior design. Like good thing this ain't your house, Kim.
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Jose Solís @josesolismayen.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Yesterday’s BIPOC Critics Lab session was all about editing, giving shape to our first drafts, and lost potato bags. @bedatri.bsky.social was, as usual, a fabulous guest instructor! I'm very grateful for this cohort. They teach me as much as I teach them. #BIPOCCriticsLab #Editing #ArtsWriting
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Jose Solís @josesolismayen.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Thank you @bedatri.bsky.social and @su4ita.bsky.social for joining the BIPOC Critics Lab to talk about video reviews! It was a pleasure welcoming you back!
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Is there a Japanese/German quaint word for the irony of blocking bike lanes for cars to pass through during Climate Week?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/09/2025
Israel’s attack on Yemeni newspaper complex kills 31 media workers
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Israel’s attack on Yemeni newspaper complex kills 31 media workers
Press freedom group says ‘brutal and unjustified attack’ is deadliest against journalists since Maguindanao massacre Thirty one journalists and media staff were killed by Israeli strikes on newspaper offices in Yemen last week in what the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Friday was the deadliest attack on journalists in the last 16 years. Israel struck a newspaper complex in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, which housed three Houthi-connected media outlets on 10 September. At the time, members of the Yemeni army’s press arm were finishing the weekly print edition, according to the publication’s editor-in-chief, which increased the number of journalists present during the strike. Continue reading...
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Apologies for the past posts. My account has been hacked.
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
All these years and the answer to writer's blocks remains... writing. Tsk.
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 09/09/2025
In an Acela NextGen, the Inquirer's @bedatri.bsky.social got the cleanest view of the Schuylkill she's ever seen from an Amtrak window. Read her full review:
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I tried the new Acela train from NYC to Philly, and back. Here’s how it really is.
New NextGen Acela trains between Philly and NYC includes fast Wi-Fi, a drink cart and other amenities.
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Slept on the moment this became a trend but can people stop saying "respectfully"?
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
People talking about a royal wedding...like it's a good thing
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Asia Society New York @newyork.asiasociety.org · 15/08/2025
Parallel Days/Bollywood Nights ends with a bang this weekend! Join us for ghosts, leftists, and Shah Rukh Khan. PAHELI screens 8/22 at 6:30. Introduced by @bedatri.bsky.social. Followed by a reception with @djrekha.bsky.social! KATHAPURUSHAN screens 8/23 at 2:15. Introduced by Devika Girish.
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Where's the summer news slump I was promised? 😭
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Niche Amtrak post. But sometimes you look around, everyone's quiet but you know which ones don't know it's a quiet car
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I get migraines and I haven't been able to figure out the exact triggers. But with a doctor I figured out that Nurtec works more than any Triptans. But my insurance demands I'm prescribed three kinds of Triptans (knowing they don't work) before I can be prescribed Nurtec. Make it make sense!
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I think it's normal to think of songs about a city when you're visiting it. Unfortunately, this time in SF, that song is the Beautiful South's "Don't Marry Her." Excellent song but a rather uncouth hum-on-the-bus song
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The more I travel through the country, the more I realise New Yorkers are not rude
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I have never interviewed someone for close to 2 hours. I also have never interviewed someone for close to 2 hours and felt like I wasn't done asking questions. Heiny Srour is a goddamn treasure www.truthdig.com/articles/the...
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The Lonely Feminist - Truthdig
Two landmark films by Lebanese director Heiny Srour get a timely re-release 50 years after they were made.
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
On Rungano Nyoni's "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl," which is undoubtedly one of the best films I've watched in a while reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
In both On Becoming a Guinea Fowl and I Am Not a Witch, the previous film by Rungano Nyoni, women are tasked with laboring and bringing normalcy to an off-kilter world, choosing to seek out other pla...
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It's the year 2025 and my memoir is still called "White People Explain RRR to Me"
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
How are pistachios and the privatization of water in California related, you ask? www.truthdig.com/articles/mee...
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Meet the Pistachio Barons Who Control California’s Water - Truthdig
A new documentary lifts the curtain on a real-world ‘Chinatown.’
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I'd crip walk to the diss track against my ex too
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Isn't it cute when your dentist asks you a question when they have your mouth drawn wide open with a mouth prop?
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Colman Domingo's cravat vs the world
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Reposting this without comment
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
People who have never applied for a visa in their lives, having strong opinions on visas and visa holders and visa processes, is embarrassing (for them) and hilarious (for not them).
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Went on Pop Culture Happy Hour to talk about Bob Dylan and, surprising zero people, spoke a lot about Joan Baez www.npr.org/2024/12/27/1...
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In 'A Complete Unknown,' Timothée Chalamet captures the idea of Bob Dylan : Pop Culture Happy Hour
A Complete Unknown isn't a traditional biopic. Instead of covering Bob Dylan's life story from birth to old age, it covers the period shortly after his arrival in New York City, as he first begins to ...
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I see films where journalists own big houses and sigh so loudly. That aside, the new Almodovar film is excellent
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Very happy with the fortuitous timing of my chat with Brett and Stephen, the filmmakers of Union, the documentary on the Amazon Labor Union that just got shortlisted for the Oscars www.truthdig.com/articles/the...
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The Everything Union
A new documentary goes inside the dramatic origins of the Amazon Labor Union — just in time for holiday shopping decisions.
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I had an MRI today where they played me the music I wanted and an EEG where they asked me to sleep for an hour. It was beautiful.
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Was a South Philly mets West Philly jawn this morning at Lincoln Centre with Bradley Cooper and Colman Domingo after a "Sing Sing" screening www.inquirer.com/entertainmen...
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Bradley Cooper and Colman Domingo take on Lincoln Center together
The South Philly actor, who recently became friends with West Philly native Domingo, has high praise for the 'Sing Sing' star.
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Cherri “All About Peace” Gregg @cherrigregg.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
When your job isn’t really work…what a blessing! I truly enjoyed #Studio2’s holiday themed On the Road live event. It was all about holiday films - and my co-host @avi-wa.bsky.social and I had a ball. Thanks panelists @bedatri.bsky.social and @dhm.bsky.social! Listen 12/24 at noon on 90.9FM.
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Kate Dailey @katedailey.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
My favorite kind of story: getting to pal around with smart cool reporters getting real details on a possibly fake Philly feud: www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
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Philly “Chicken Man” to NYC rip-off: “Fight me.”
Philly folk legend, Alexendar Tominsky, a.k.a "Chicken Man" is challenging Anthony Po to a boxing match at the site of the old Melrose Diner.
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Was an absolute pleasure speaking to Mati Diop about 'Dahomey,' music, and museums For Filmmaker Magazine t.co/KI86OzhVsB
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https://filmmakermagazine.com/128167-interview-mati-diop-dahomey/
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I watched 'A Complete Unknown' with Timothée's mum. Yeah
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Another year of Spotify Wrapped. Adele's "Go Easy on Me" and "White noise for sleeping" continue to be my top tracks
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
For years we have awarded the journalists who have gone "undercover", learnt the language (in most cases, Arabic). Dilan Gohill was doing his job and he did it well. We cant expect "on the scene" reportage and then see it being criminalised. www.cjr.org/getting-the-...
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Should a Student Reporter Face Prosecution for Embedding with Protesters?
Dilan Gohill won an award for his work at the Stanford Daily, but his coverage of campus protests has set university officials against him.
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
To the person who yelled 'This is the men's room' to me in an all-gender loo, 'You'll be ok'
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Bedatri Datta Choudhury @bedatri.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Nope. Back in India, it was Madhuri Dixit fake coughing into it as a sign of flirtation in Hum Apke Hain Kaun!
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