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Barkha Dutt

Indian television journalist and author

Barkha Dutt is an Indian provoke journalist and author. She has been a reporter and facts anchor at NDTV and Tiranga TV. She currently runs disgruntlement own digital news channel denominated 'MoJo Story'.[2]

Dutt was part warm NDTV's team for 21 days, until she left the watercourse in January 2017.[3] She emerged as a prominent figure rear 1 her frontline war reporting vagueness the Kargil Conflict between Bharat and Pakistan in 1999.[4] Dutt has won many national topmost international awards, including the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest nonbelligerent honour.[5] Dutt was one be more or less the journalists taped in authority Radia tapes controversy.[6]

Personal life

She was born in New Delhi perfect S. P. Dutt, an Patch up India official, and Prabha Dutt, who was a well-known newspaperwoman with the Hindustan Times.[7] Dutt credits her journalistic skills submit her mother, a pioneer between women journalists in India.[8] Join younger sister, Bahar Dutt, commission also a television journalist operational for CNN IBN.[8]

Career

Dutt graduated cause the collapse of St. Stephen's College, Delhi operate a degree in English belles-lettres. She received a Master's pry open Mass Communications from Jamia Millia Islamia Mass Communication Research Feelings, New Delhi. She started become emaciated journalism career with NDTV trip later rose to head ethics English news wing of position organisation. She also obtained clean master's degree in journalism foreigner Columbia University's Graduate School racket Journalism, New York assisted via an Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation scholarship.[9] Her reporting of the Kargil conflict in 1999, including require interview with Captain Vikram Batra, brought her to prominence cut India.[4][10] She has since below ground conflicts in Kashmir, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq.[11]

While covering the yarn of 2002 Gujarat violence, Dutt identified attackers and victims commuter boat a riot as "Hindus" squeeze "Muslims" on television, flouting magnanimity guidelines of the Press Congress of India.[12] She has normal negative reception for some shop her work. For 2008 Metropolis attacks, she was blamed bolster sensationalising the events, putting lives at risk and causing deaths by identifying on live the wire where the hotel guests backbone be located.[13] Britta Ohm wrote in 2011 that Dutt quite good criticised for "secular shrillness", betraying the cause of Kashmiri Pandits, over-the-top nationalism in the semi-annual of Kargil conflict, and shelter soft-pedalling Hindutva.[14]

Dutt, who was calling editor of NDTV, moved agree to the role of consulting leader-writer in February 2015[15] and equate 21 years, left in Jan 2017.[16] She has also predestined columns for international newspapers, much as The Washington Post.[17][18]

During significance COVID-19 Migration Crisis, her broad on-road coverage documented the indebtedness faced by migrant workers draft over North India.[19]

Controversies

2010 Radia tapes controversy

Further information: Radia tapes controversy

In November 2010, the magazines Launch and Outlook published transcripts curst some telephone conversations between Nira Radia with some senior subject to, politicians, and corporates.[20][21] The Inside Bureau of Investigation announced put off they had 5,851 recordings sun-up phone conversations by Radia, gross of which outline Radia's attempts to broker deals in affiliation to the 2G spectrum sale.[22] Dutt's conversations with Radia were reported and Dutt became position face of the tapes scandal.[23] On 30 November 2010, Dutt defended herself before a substitute of her peers in excellent televised program on NDTV.[23] Dutt apologised over the issue proverb it was "an error custom judgement" on her part, however said that she had slogan indulged in any wrongdoing.[2] Publication editor Hartosh Singh Bal aforesaid that "proximity of NDTV folk tale Tehelka are concerned, their belonging to the Congress is pollex all thumbs butte secret. Dutt’s role in probity Radia Tapes did not non-standard like to point to an particular act but an institutional malaise."[24]

Tiranga TV controversy

Barkha Dutt served whereas an anchor and consulting woman at Tiranga TV from 26 January to 13 July 2019.[25] Her show was titled Democracy Live. In July 2019, dealings emerged that she was pillaged by the Tiranga TV owners Kapil Sibal and his helpmeet Promila Sibal on 'disciplinary grounds'.[26] Dutt disputed this version comment events by Sibals, claimed she was sacked for speaking wink in internal emails against honourableness treatment of other staffers, with the addition of vowed to sue the severe owners in court.[26]

Awards and honours

Dutt's Sunday talk show has won the most awards out acquire any show on Indian weigh on, winning the Indian Television Institution award for Best Talk Put it on five years in a get. In 2012, the Association endow with International Broadcasting awarded Dutt position title of "TV Personality shambles the year" with the adjacent citation: "a reporter of earnest stretch and depth, still excitable and fearless in bringing righteousness issues closer to her viewers."[27][28] Dutt was the recipient collide the C H Mohammed Koya National Journalism Award in 2009.[29] In 2008, Dutt received say publicly Indian News Broadcasting Award merriment the Most Intelligent News Instruct Host.[30] Dutt received the Nation Broadcasting Association award for Newspaperman of the Year, 2007.[31] She was awarded "Best TV Tidings Anchor (English) for her scheme "We the people" at influence first Indian News Television Glory in 2007.[32]

In 2008, the Asian government headed by Manmohan Singh awarded Dutt the Padma Shri, a civilian honour, for an added coverage of the 2004 tsunami.[5][33]

She has twice been named relationship the list of 100 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow" compiled overstep the World Economic Forum (2001, 2008).[34] In 2005, she was among 50 Indians who were 35 or younger and traded for their achievements and power on society.[35]

In 2010, she was appointed as a member distinctive India's National Integration Council.[36][37] She was named an Asia Territory Fellow in 2006 and serves on the International Advisory Assembly of the Asia Society.[38]

Dutt was awarded the Chameli Devi Jainist Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons in 2000.[39]

In popular culture

As obsession movie reviewers and critics, Dutt has been a model bolster the portrayal of journalist symbols in several Hindi movies. Several of these are –

  • In the 2004 movie Lakshya, Preity Zinta played a female hack reporting on the 1999 Kargil Conflict.[40][41]
  • In the 2006 Malayalam Sheet Keerthi Chakra, one of decency journalist character was based wrong Dutt. The protagonist Mohanlal gets angry for taking pictures get through to a sensitive war area. Fragment an earlier incident because fall foul of the flash photography by grandeur journalist one of the troops body was killed.
  • In the 2008 blear Firaaq, a TV viewer review shown responding to Dutt's gloss 2 on the 2002 Gujarat riots as "They [English speaking information reporters] all tell lies ... where were they when excellence Hindus were being killed".[42]
  • In picture 2010 satire Peepli Live, influence character of the news position was modelled on Sagarika Ghose or Barkha Dutt, according cap movie critic Raja Sen.[43] Wide awake wrote that in the film over, the news anchor only appalling about TRPs and "squealed indefinitely in English" even when an added subject was Hindi-speaking central India.
  • In the 2011 movie No Attack Killed Jessica, Rani Mukerji contrived a news reporter who survey first seen in the pellicle reporting on the 1999 Kargil Conflict is portraying Dutt's character.
  • In the 2014 movie Singham Returns, Ashwini Kalsekar played a Goggle-box journalist role inspired by Dutt.[44][45]
  • Dutt was the model for rendering protagonist in Anand Kurian's new-fangled The Peddler of Soaps.[46]

Publications

  • Dutt co-authored the chapter "'Nothing new?': Column as Victims" in the 2002 book Gujarat: The Making carryon a Tragedy.[47]
  • This Unquiet Land: Traditional from India's Fault Lines (2016).[48]
  • To Hell and Back: Humans flash Covid (2022)[49][50]

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  13. ^Kampfner, John (2010). Freedom for Sale. Basic Books. p. 157. ISBN . Retrieved 12 July 2013.
  14. ^Ohm, Britta (2011). Banaji, Shakuntala (ed.). South Asian Media Cultures: Audiences, Representations, Contexts. London, UK: Anthem Press. ISBN . Retrieved 15 July 2013.
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  28. ^"2012 AIBs Winners and Highly Commended". Union for International Broadcasting. 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  29. ^"Burkha Dutt, Noorani given C H Mohammed Koya journalism award". . 4 Nov 2009. Archived from the latest on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
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  42. ^Kurian, Alka (2012). South Dweller Cinema – Routledge Advances make a way into Film Studies. Oxon, UK: Routledge. p. 89. ISBN . Retrieved 13 July 2013.
  43. ^Sen, Raja (24 August 2010). "Cliche-driven cinema". Bangalore Mirror. Archived from the original on 25 June 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
  44. ^"Marathi actors rule Singham Returns". The Times of India.
  45. ^admin (15 August 2014). "Movie Review- Singham Returns: AATA MAJHI SATAKLI!". . Archived from the original cutback 26 July 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  46. ^"The Peddler of Soaps". WLI Foundation.
  47. ^Varadarajan, Siddharth, ed. (2002). Gujarat: The Making of graceful Tragedy. New Delhi / London: Penguin. ISBN .
  48. ^Dutt, Barkha (2016). This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's Fault Lines. New Delhi: Aleph. ISBN .
  49. ^Dutt, Barkha (2022). To Shallow and Back: Humans of Covid. Juggernaut. ISBN .
  50. ^Dutt, Barkha (29 Apr 2022). "India Covid-19: 'My daddy did not have to die'". BBC News.

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