Barkha Dutt

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Barkha Dutt (born December 18, 1971) is a Indian TV journalist with New Delhi Television (NDTV).

Biography

Early life

Barkha Dutt was born to S.P. Dutt (called "Speedy" because of his initials) and Mrs Prabha Dutt (nee Behl). [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040711/spectrum/main1.htm "The Tribune" Article] ] Dutt was an official in Air-India and Prabha was Chief of Bureau of the Hindustan Times for some time. Her childhood days were spent shuttling between New Delhi and New York. [cite web | title = She dares| url=http://living.oneindia.in/celebrity/barkha_dutt.html | accessdate=2007-03-20]

Barkha credits her journalism skills to her mother, Prabha, a pioneer among women journalists in India. Prabha Dutt graduated from the Chandigarh School of Journalism with honours and did her inhouse training with the Hindustan Times, Delhi in 1964. Prabha Dutt died in 1984, when she was in her prime, due to a brain haemorrhage. At that time Barkha was just thirteen.

Education

Dutt was educated at the Modern School, New Delhi. She then did her Bachelor's degree in English literature from St. Stephen's College, New Delhi. After this, she did her Master's degree in Mass Communication from Jamia Milia Islamia's Mass Communication Research Center New Delhi.

She was a 1997 winner of the Inlaks Scholarship, which sends six Indians abroad annually for graduate work. Barkha took two years off from work and got a master's in journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, New York.

Career

Barkha Dutt's frontline reporting of the Kargil conflict in 1999 rose her to prominence in India. She had interviewed Capt. Vikram Batra during the Kargil conflict.

Since then, Dutt has reported on a large number of conflicts, covering areas ranging from Kashmir, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Currently, she is the Managing Editor of NDTV 24x7, India's premiere satellite television network, and the host of "We the People", a discussion show covering current events.

She also writes a weekly column for The Hindustan Times and Khaleej Times.

Awards

Her work has won her over twenty international and national awards including:

*Global Leader of Tomorrow Award from the World Economic Forum, 2001;

*Commonwealth Broadcasters Award, 2002;

*Broadcast Journalist of the Year award from the Indian Express, 2005;

*Padma Shri Award (Journalism), 2008.

Criticisms

Dutt is accused of taking a liberal and communal stand on issues. Critics accuse her of being financed by Saudi financiers with an anti-India agenda. Widespread rumours claim she is married to a Kashmiri militant.

During the Kargil conflict, Indian Army sources repeatedly complained to her channel that she was giving away locations in her broadcasts, thus causing Indian casualties.

ee Also

*NDTV 24x7
*We the People (TV Program)
*http://www.saja.org/dutt.html
*http://living.oneindia.in/celebrity/barkha_dutt.html
*http://www.thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web203101632Hoot80432%20PM1258&pn=1
*http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040711/spectrum/main1.htm
*http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/videopod/default.aspx?id=14002

References

External links

* [http://www.saja.org/members/profiles/dutt.html Profile at South Asian Journalists Association website]
* [http://www.asha-foundation.org/women/women/barkha_dutt.php Profile at Asha Foundation website ]