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	'''Tista Das''' ({{lang-bn\|তিস্তা দাস}})<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/~~1040923~~/~~asp~~/~~calcutta~~/~~story_3780531.asp~~\|title=Gender bender: will and way to cross over\|newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)]]}}</ref> or '''Teesta''' Das (born 9 May 1978) is an [[Indian people\|Indian]] [[LGBT rights in India\|transgender rights activist]], actor and writer from the Indian state of [[West Bengal]]. She acted in quite a few Hindi and [[Cinema of West Bengal\|Bengali films]].		'''Tista Das''' ({{lang-bn\|তিস্তা দাস}})<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/gender-bender-will-and-way-to-cross-over/cid/1268490\|title=Gender bender: will and way to cross over\|newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)]]}}</ref> or '''Teesta''' Das (born 9 May 1978) is an [[Indian people\|Indian]] [[LGBT rights in India\|transgender rights activist]], actor and writer from the Indian state of [[West Bengal]]. She acted in quite a few Hindi and [[Cinema of West Bengal\|Bengali films]].

	==Personal life==		==Personal life==
	~~Tista~~ was ~~diagnosed with [[~~gender identity ~~disorder]] (GID)~~ at an ~~early stage of life~~ and ~~consequently~~ underwent [[sex reassignment surgery]] under Dr. [[Sheila Rohatgi]], a prominent plastic surgeon from [[Kolkata]] ~~who specializes in SRS procedures~~. Following this Tista went public with her identity and was a source of much controversy and social upheaval regarding stereotypes associated with the transsexual community. Her case played a pivotal role in changing the misconceptions in Indian society about transsexuality and went on to provoke a positive national debate in the press and the media on the ethics of sex change and transsexual rights in India. A social activist in transsexual issues and a vocal proponent of transsexual rights, Tista is also a prominent actress with a string of film and television soap appearances to her credit. Tista is regarded by many as an icon of empowerment and choice for the transsexual community in India.		Das Knew she was a girl since childhood. And being considered as a boy by society and school was very painful to her. He coming out to her family doesn't go well. they don't accept her gender identity. After several years suffering harassment at the university and in the street, and too much pression at home from her family, Das left her home to go to an NGO, called Rikti. Here, an advocate, Santiranjan Basu found a job for her, as an proofreader. She finally went back to her family in 2003, when her parents finally accept she is a woman.
	Although she was rejected admission initially for undergraduate studies at [[Rabindra Bharati University]], she graduated through correspondence from [[Bethune College]] of the [[University of Calcutta]]<ref>{{cite ~~news\|url=http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=6&id=141972&usrsess=1~~\|title=~~Tista's struggle\|newspaper=[[The Statesman (~~India~~)\|The Statesman]]\|url-status=bot: unknown~~\|~~archive-~~url=https://~~web~~.~~archive~~.~~org~~/~~web~~/~~20090101132835~~/~~http:~~//~~www~~.~~thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid~~=~~6&id=141972&usrsess~~=1\|~~archive~~-date=~~1 January 2009~~\|df=~~dmy-all~~}}</ref>		<ref name=":0">{{cite news \| url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/for-kolkatas-tista-das-who-was-trapped-for-long-in-a-male-body-the-battle-for-acceptance-isnt-quite-over/articleshow/50336123.cms \| title=For Kolkata's Tista das, who was trapped for long in a male body, the battle for acceptance isn't quite over \| newspaper=The Economic Times \| last1=Ghosal \| first1=Sutanuka }}</ref>

			A year later, Das underwent [[sex reassignment surgery]] under Dr. [[Sheila Rohatgi]], a prominent plastic surgeon from [[Kolkata]], paid thank to the help of Das's parents. The surgery happened the 9th of may 2004, the birthdate of Das. “I insisted that I be operated on this day. I wanted a rebirth and this was it”.<ref name=":1">{{cite news\|url=http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=6&id=141972&usrsess=1\|title=Tista's struggle\|newspaper=[[The Statesman (India)\|The Statesman]]\|url-status=bot: unknown\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101132835/http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=6&id=141972&usrsess=1\|archive-date=1 January 2009\|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

			Following this Tista Das went public with her identity and was a source of much controversy and social upheaval regarding stereotypes associated with the transsexual community. Her case played a pivotal role in changing the misconceptions in Indian society about transsexuality and went on to provoke a positive national debate in the press and the media on the ethics of sex change and transsexual rights in India. A social activist in transsexual issues and a vocal proponent of transsexual rights, Tista Das is also a prominent actress with a string of film and television soap appearances to her credit. Tista Das is regarded by many as an icon of empowerment and choice for the transsexual community in India.
			Although she was rejected admission initially for undergraduate studies at [[Rabindra Bharati University]], she graduated through correspondence from [[Bethune College]] of the [[University of Calcutta]]<ref name=":1" />

			In 2019, Das marry Dipan Chakraborty a trans man, which make them the first married trans couple of West Bengal.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Meet the first transgender married couple from West Bengal - Times of India\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/spotlight/meet-the-first-transgender-married-couple-from-west-bengal/articleshow/70802609.cms\|website=The Times of India\|language=en\|access-date=2022-06-06\|publication-date=}}</ref>

	==Career==		==Career==
	Tista is an actor and community based counsellor by profession and has quite a few films and various television roles and appearances to her credit. She has also worked as research assistant in [[Calcutta]] for Rooprekha Chowdhury. a [[University of California, Berkeley]] fellow on a research project on the life style of trans-sexuals and their acceptance in society.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://societymag.co.in/article/features/a-journey-of-self-discovery/7858\|title= A Journey of Self Discovery\|publisher=[[Society (magazine)\|Society]]}}</ref>		Tista Das is an actor and community based counsellor by profession and has quite a few films and various television roles and appearances to her credit. She has also worked as research assistant in [[Calcutta]] for Rooprekha Chowdhury. a [[University of California, Berkeley]] fellow on a research project on the life style of trans-sexuals and their acceptance in society.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://societymag.co.in/article/features/a-journey-of-self-discovery/7858\|title= A Journey of Self Discovery\|publisher=[[Society (magazine)\|Society]]}}</ref>

			She acted in Sohini Dasgupta's, documentary ''[[I Couldn't Be Your Son, Mom]]'' - "It is the story of a courageous young person who denies the life she has been given,” says [[Buddhadeb Dasgupta]] who has produced the 20- minute documentary directed by Sohini Dasgupta.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.freepressjournal.in/ujjain/i-could-not-be-your-son-mom/19054\|title=I could not be your son, mom\|newspaper=[[The Free Press Journal]]}}</ref> She played a role in Subrata Dutta’s 45-minute film ''The Third Gender?'' which was screened at the [[Bulgaria film festival]] in 2006.She also plays the lead role in ''[[Beyond Reflections]]'', a movie about her life directed by Umesh Bist.Tista Das also acted alongside [[June Maliah]] in [[Shankho Ghosh]]’s full-length feature film ''[[Ebong Fera]]'' and telefilm ''[[Naari (film)\|Naari]]'' where she plays a college girl.

			She was selected for acting in one of [[Akash Bangla]]’s series Sahityer Sera Somoy. Tista Das is also getting ready with a book on her life, which she will call ''[[Shudhu Hridoyer Jonyo]]''.In 2014, she has acted as Heroin in a 48 minutes short film called "[[Arekti Jiboner Golpo]]", based on a true story of a post operative Bengali Transsexual girl. The film was tribute to the film maker Rituparno Ghosh.<ref name=":0"/>

			She completed two films in Bengali where she played the protagonist of the film. In Hrisikesh Mondal's docu-feature ''Achena Bondhutto'' Tista Das played as a Psychological counselor. Her role in Achena Bondhutto is about the battle to gain acceptance and convince people that the [[Transgender]] community has many more things to do than clapping hands and exposing offences. The film's theme song has been sung by leading Bengali rock singers like [[Rupam Islam]] of [[Fossils]], Sidhu of Cactus and [[Surojit Chatterjee]] of [[Bhoomi (band)\|Bhoomi]] - all of whom have thrown their weight behind the project.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/first-bengali-film-casting-lgbt-community-awaits-release-114102700131_1.html\|title=First Bengali film casting LGBT community awaits release\|newspaper=[[The Business Standard]]}}</ref>

	She acted in Sohini Dasgupta's, documentary ''[[I Couldn't Be Your Son, Mom]]'' - "It is the story of a courageous young person who denies the life she has been given,” says [[Buddhadeb Dasgupta]] who has produced the 20- minute documentary directed by Sohini Dasgupta.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.freepressjournal.in/ujjain/i-could-not-be-your-son-mom/19054\|title=I could not be your son, mom\|newspaper=[[The Free Press Journal]]}}</ref> She played a role in Subrata Dutta’s 45-minute film ''The Third Gender?'' which was screened at the [[Bulgaria film festival]] in 2006.She also plays the lead role in ''[[Beyond Reflections]]'', a movie about her life directed by Umesh Bist.Tista also acted alongside [[June Maliah]] in [[Shankho Ghosh]]’s full-length feature film ''[[Ebong Fera]]'' and telefilm ''[[Naari (film)\|Naari]]'' where she plays a college girl.		On the other movie ''[[punorbasan]]'', Tista Das played the lead role of an intersexed daughter of a jamindar family in Sobha Bazar. She appeared as a painter in the film who fall in love of a documentary film maker came from Mumbai. This is the first film of a senior journalist Jishnudeep Barman who is really happy and satisfied to cast Tista Das as heroine in the story.
	She was selected for acting in one of [[Akash Bangla]]’s series Sahityer Sera Somoy. Tista is also getting ready with a book on her life, which she will call ''[[Shudhu Hridoyer Jonyo]]''.In 2014, she has acted as Heroin in a 48 minutes short film called "[[Arekti Jiboner Golpo]]", based on a true story of a post operative Bengali Transsexual girl. The film was tribute to the film maker Rituparno Ghosh.
	She completed two films in Bengali where she played the protagonist of the film. In Hrisikesh Mondal's docu-feature ''Achena Bondhutto'' Tista played as a Psychological counselor. Her role in Achena Bondhutto is about the battle to gain acceptance and convince people that the [[Transgender]] community has many more things to do than clapping hands and exposing offences. The film's theme song has been sung by leading Bengali rock singers like [[Rupam Islam]] of [[Fossils]], Sidhu of Cactus and [[Surojit Chatterjee]] of [[Bhoomi (band)\|Bhoomi]] - all of whom have thrown their weight behind the project.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/first-bengali-film-casting-lgbt-community-awaits-release-114102700131_1.html\|title=First Bengali film casting LGBT community awaits release\|newspaper=[[The Business Standard]]}}</ref>
	On the other movie ''[[punorbasan]]'', Tista played the lead role of an intersexed daughter of a jamindar family in Sobha Bazar. She appeared as a painter in the film who fall in love of a documentary film maker came from Mumbai. This is the first film of a senior journalist Jishnudeep Barman who is really happy and satisfied to cast Tista as heroine in the story.

	Having had positive responses from some of Calcutta's well-known theater companies, Tista was supposed to join [[Shaonli Mitra]]’s [[Pancham Baidik]]. But rejected because of her free gender expression in media. Finally she joined in the intimate unconventional theater group Bivaban Theatre Academy. As times goes on she was invited to take part in many stage plays from many theater groups in Kolkata.		Having had positive responses from some of Calcutta's well-known theater companies, Tista Das was supposed to join [[Shaonli Mitra]]’s [[Pancham Baidik]]. But rejected because of her free gender expression in media. Finally she joined in the intimate unconventional theater group Bivaban Theatre Academy. As times goes on she was invited to take part in many stage plays from many theater groups in Kolkata.

	==Filmography==		==Filmography==
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'''Tista Das''' ({{lang-bn|তিস্তা দাস}})<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1040923/asp/calcutta/story_3780531.asp|title=Gender bender: will and way to cross over|newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)]]}}</ref> or '''Teesta''' Das (born 9 May 1978) is an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[LGBT rights in India|transgender rights activist]], actor and writer from the Indian state of [[West Bengal]]. She acted in quite a few Hindi and [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali films]].

==Personal life==
Tista was diagnosed with [[gender identity disorder]] (GID) at an early stage of life and consequently underwent [[sex reassignment surgery]] under Dr. [[Sheila Rohatgi]], a prominent plastic surgeon from [[Kolkata]] who specializes in SRS procedures. Following this Tista went public with her identity and was a source of much controversy and social upheaval regarding stereotypes associated with the transsexual community. Her case played a pivotal role in changing the misconceptions in Indian society about transsexuality and went on to provoke a positive national debate in the press and the media on the ethics of sex change and transsexual rights in India. A social activist in transsexual issues and a vocal proponent of transsexual rights, Tista is also a prominent actress with a string of film and television soap appearances to her credit. Tista is regarded by many as an icon of empowerment and choice for the transsexual community in India.
Although she was rejected admission initially for undergraduate studies at [[Rabindra Bharati University]], she graduated through correspondence from [[Bethune College]] of the [[University of Calcutta]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=6&id=141972&usrsess=1|title=Tista's struggle|newspaper=[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101132835/http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=6&id=141972&usrsess=1|archive-date=1 January 2009|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Career==
Tista is an actor and community based counsellor by profession and has quite a few films and various television roles and appearances to her credit. She has also worked as research assistant in [[Calcutta]] for Rooprekha Chowdhury. a [[University of California, Berkeley]] fellow on a research project on the life style of trans-sexuals and their acceptance in society.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://societymag.co.in/article/features/a-journey-of-self-discovery/7858|title= A Journey of Self Discovery|publisher=[[Society (magazine)|Society]]}}</ref>

She acted in Sohini Dasgupta's, documentary ''[[I Couldn't Be Your Son, Mom]]'' - "It is the story of a courageous young person who denies the life she has been given,” says [[Buddhadeb Dasgupta]] who has produced the 20- minute documentary directed by Sohini Dasgupta.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.freepressjournal.in/ujjain/i-could-not-be-your-son-mom/19054|title=I could not be your son, mom|newspaper=[[The Free Press Journal]]}}</ref> She played a role in Subrata Dutta’s 45-minute film ''The Third Gender?'' which was screened at the [[Bulgaria film festival]] in 2006.She also plays the lead role in ''[[Beyond Reflections]]'', a movie about her life directed by Umesh Bist.Tista also acted alongside [[June Maliah]] in [[Shankho Ghosh]]’s full-length feature film ''[[Ebong Fera]]'' and telefilm ''[[Naari (film)|Naari]]'' where she plays a college girl.
She was selected for acting in one of [[Akash Bangla]]’s series Sahityer Sera Somoy. Tista is also getting ready with a book on her life, which she will call ''[[Shudhu Hridoyer Jonyo]]''.In 2014, she has acted as Heroin in a 48 minutes short film called "[[Arekti Jiboner Golpo]]", based on a true story of a post operative Bengali Transsexual girl. The film was tribute to the film maker Rituparno Ghosh.
She completed two films in Bengali where she played the protagonist of the film. In Hrisikesh Mondal's docu-feature ''Achena Bondhutto'' Tista played as a Psychological counselor. Her role in Achena Bondhutto is about the battle to gain acceptance and convince people that the [[Transgender]] community has many more things to do than clapping hands and exposing offences. The film's theme song has been sung by leading Bengali rock singers like [[Rupam Islam]] of [[Fossils]], Sidhu of Cactus and [[Surojit Chatterjee]] of [[Bhoomi (band)|Bhoomi]] - all of whom have thrown their weight behind the project.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/first-bengali-film-casting-lgbt-community-awaits-release-114102700131_1.html|title=First Bengali film casting LGBT community awaits release|newspaper=[[The Business Standard]]}}</ref>
On the other movie ''[[punorbasan]]'', Tista played the lead role of an intersexed daughter of a jamindar family in Sobha Bazar. She appeared as a painter in the film who fall in love of a documentary film maker came from Mumbai. This is the first film of a senior journalist Jishnudeep Barman who is really happy and satisfied to cast Tista as heroine in the story.

Having had positive responses from some of Calcutta's well-known theater companies, Tista was supposed to join [[Shaonli Mitra]]’s [[Pancham Baidik]]. But rejected because of her free gender expression in media. Finally she joined in the intimate unconventional theater group Bivaban Theatre Academy. As times goes on she was invited to take part in many stage plays from many theater groups in Kolkata.

==Filmography==
* Documentary – ''I could not be your son, mom'', (2002)
* Short Film- ''Ebong Fera'', (2004)
* Telefilm – ''Naari'', (2004)
* Short film- ''The Third Gender?'', (2006)
* Documentary ''Beyond Reflections'', (2009)
* Short film ''Rupantar'', (2012)
* Documentary - ''Maa I Exist Beyond X&Y'' (2013)
* Short Film- ''Arekti Jiboner Golpo/Story Of Another Life'' (2013)
* Feature film- ''Achena Bondhutto'', (2014)
[[File:Ochena Tista.jpg|thumbnail]]

* Feature film- ''Punarbasan'', (2014)

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Twitter|Krishnokoli2013}}

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