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Subhashish Panigrahi

Subhashish Panigrahi is a public-interest archivist, researcher, non-fiction filmmaker, and civil society leader from India. A National Geographic Explorer, he has directed and produced nine critically acclaimed nonfiction films, including “MarginalizedAadhaar”, “Nani Ma,” the first documentary in the Baleswari-Odia dialect, and “Gyani Maiya”. His films often focus on conserving endangered languages, digital rights, and the open internet movement, particularly in South Asia. He has created a speech data repository in his native language Odia and dialect Baleswari-Odia, that has a total of over 62,000 audio recordings, the largest in the language and all under a Universal Public Domain Release (CC0 1.0).