1. Sixty hours of live television at the best of times is impossibly difficult. But when it
involves an ongoing and precarious terrorist operation and a potential danger to the lives
of hundreds of people, it throws up challenges of the kind that none of us have ever dealt
with before but people like barkha dutt faced this challenge exceptionally well.
Barkha Dutt, the best-known face of NDTV, has attained iconic status as a reporter. A
role model for the young, her appeal cuts across all age groups. Barkha has pushed the
limits of intrepid news reporting far beyond the conventional.
Barkha Dutt is a television journalist. 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 Times. Barkha credits her journalism skills to her mother, Prabha, a
pioneer among women journalists in India. Prabha Dutt died in 1984, when she was in
her prime, due to a brain haemorrhage. Barkha's younger sister Bahar Dutt is also a T.V.
journalist working for CNN IBN.
Her frontline reporting of the Kargil conflict in 1999 raised her to prominence in India.
She has reported on many conflicts, ranging from Kashmir to Pakistan, Afghanistan and
Iraq. Currently, she is Group Editor-English News, NDTV, a leading Indian television
network, and the host of "We the People", a weekly discussion show on current events.
Barkha also writes a weekly column for The Hindustan Times called "Third Eye” and
Khaleej Times.
Some awards she has won: 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 andiIn
2010 she was one of the journalists taped in the 2G lobbying Radia tapes controversy.