Barkha Dutt is an Indian TV journalist and columnist. She is currently the Group Editor, English News at New Delhi Television (NDTV). Dutt gained prominence for her reportage of the Kargil War. She has won many national and international awards, including the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honor. She writes a column for The Hindustan Times, called "Third Eye." In 2010 she was one of the journalists taped in the 2G lobbying Radia tapes controversy.
Barkha Dutt was born in New Delhi to her father, S.P.Dutt, an official in Air India and Prabha Dutt who was a well-known journalist with the Hindustan TimesBarkha studied in Modern School, New Delhi and graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi with a degree in English literature. She received a Master's in Mass Communications from Jamia Millia Islamia Mass Communication Research Center, New Delhi. She started her journalistic career with NDTV and later rose to head the English news wing of the organization. She also got a master's in journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, New York assisted by a Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation scholarship.
Her rise in popular Indian awareness is primarily attributed to her coverage of the Kargil War and her continued association with news primarily pertaining to the sensitive issues of Kashmir politics. She is hailed as the “Indian Christiane Amanpour”. Her reporting of the Kargil conflict in 1999, including an interview with Captain Vikram Batra, brought her to prominence in India. Indian Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta insinuated that she may have compromised the security of the troops by giving away troop locations. Barkha disagreed, claiming that the then Chief of Indian Army, Gen VP Malik, indicated otherwise in his personal memoirs. She has since covered conflicts in Kashmir, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. Newswatch, a media watchdog, observed that her style of reporting was full of theatrics and had the merit to reduce complex issues to sound bytes. She responded to such studies by remarking that the medium (of Television) lent itself to such shrillness. Amita Malik, a prominent film and television critic, described her to be intrusive into the private lives of people with a long list of trite questions. Sevanti Ninan, a media critic, thought of her as being a representative of the popular malaise afflicting the news media. Barkha, according to many publications, was the journalist who came in for the most criticism for sensationalist coverage after the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks. Vanity Fair Magazine carried a report citing that her broadcasts were used by terrorist handlers in Pakistan to relay orders back to those in Mumbai.
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Barkha Dutt was born in New Delhi to her father, S.P.Dutt, an official in Air India and Prabha Dutt who was a well-known journalist with the Hindustan TimesBarkha studied in Modern School, New Delhi and graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi with a degree in English literature. She received a Master's in Mass Communications from Jamia Millia Islamia Mass Communication Research Center, New Delhi. She started her journalistic career with NDTV and later rose to head the English news wing of the organization. She also got a master's in journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, New York assisted by a Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation scholarship. Kargil War and Mumbai Attacks
Her rise in popular Indian awareness is primarily attributed to her coverage of the Kargil War and her continued association with news primarily pertaining to the sensitive issues of Kashmir politics. She is hailed as the “Indian Christiane Amanpour”. Her reporting of the Kargil conflict in 1999, including an interview with Captain Vikram Batra, brought her to prominence in India. Indian Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta insinuated that she may have compromised the security of the troops by giving away troop locations. Barkha disagreed, claiming that the then Chief of Indian Army, Gen VP Malik, indicated otherwise in his personal memoirs. She has since covered conflicts in Kashmir, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. Newswatch, a media watchdog, observed that her style of reporting was full of theatrics and had the merit to reduce complex issues to sound bytes. She responded to such studies by remarking that the medium (of Television) lent itself to such shrillness. Amita Malik, a prominent film and television critic, described her to be intrusive into the private lives of people with a long list of trite questions. Sevanti Ninan, a media critic, thought of her as being a representative of the popular malaise afflicting the news media. Barkha, according to many publications, was the journalist who came in for the most criticism for sensationalist coverage after the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks. Vanity Fair Magazine carried a report citing that her broadcasts were used by terrorist handlers in Pakistan to relay orders back to those in Mumbai. Some awards she has won:
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| Receiving Padma Shree form the President of India |
Global Leader of Tomorrow Award from the World Economic Forum, 2001
Commonwealth Broadcasters Award, 2002
Broadcast Journalist of the Year by the Indian Express, 2005
Padma Shri Award (Journalism), 2008
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