Barkha Dutt (born December 18, 1971) is an Indian TV journalist and columnist. She is currently Group Editor, English News at New Delhi Television.
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 honour. She writes a popular column for The Hindustan Times, called "Third Eye."However, she has also come in for criticism that her...
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Barkha Dutt (born December 18, 1971) is an Indian TV journalist and columnist. She is currently Group Editor, English News at New Delhi Television.
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 honour. She writes a popular column for The Hindustan Times, called "Third Eye."However, she has also come in for criticism that her reporting is sensationalist and melodramatic.
Barkha Dutt was born in New Delhi in a Punjabi family. She studied at Modern School, New Delhi, 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 and a Master's in Journalism from Columbia University, New York.
She was one of the winners of the prestigious Inlaks Scholarship, which sends 6 Indians overseas to study every year.
As a journalist, Dutt began her career at NDTV when it was a TV...
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