Barkha Dutt
Barkha 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.
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Career
Barkha Dutt's frontline reporting of the Kargil conflict in 1999 made her a household name. She had interviewed Capt. Vikram Batra during the Kargil conflict, and this interview was telecast after Capt.Batra was killed in Drass. It was an interview that shook the nation to an extent.
Since, then the focus of her work has been conflict reporting, covering areas ranging from Kashmir, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. Today as the Managing Editor of NDTV 24x7, India's premiere satellite television network, and the host of We the People, every week, she is one of the most influential journalists in the country. She also writes a weekly column for The Hindustan Times and The Khaleej Times.
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Awards
Her work has won her over twenty international and national awards including:
- the Global Leader of Tomorrow Award from the World Economic Forum in 2001;
- the Commonwealth Broadcasters Award, 2002;
- the Broadcast Journalist of the Year award from the Indian Express, in 2005;
- She has received the prestigious Padma Shri Award (Journalism), in 2008
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She has often been criticized of her bias against religion and religious ideas. Many allege that she is "pro-left", "left-liberal", "secular", "anti-religious" and specifically "anti-Hindu". She has openly declared many times that she is a feminist". In one of her shows, "We the people", she is quoted as saying "I am shamelessly a feminist". She was once called as a "feminist fundamentalist and extremist" by one of the guests, Rahul Easwar from Sabarimala Shrine. She replied by saying that she was happy to be labeled so.
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- 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
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