![]() She's also the author of two books, The Unquiet Land, Stories from India's Fault Lines, and just last year, of To Hell and Back, Humans of COVID, based again on her reporting of the pandemic that was ravaging India, claiming many victims including her father, Edda Dutt. More recently, she's changed roles again as the founder editor of the digital platform Mojo's Story. During the latter, she exclusively interviewed a range of global personalities, including Sonya Gandhi, Imran Khan, Hillary Clinton, Salman Rushdie, and perhaps most importantly, given his birthday was yesterday, Shah Rukh Khan. She was first known for her ground reporting from across India and the world, including the Cargill conflict between India and Pakistan in 1999, to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, to most recently, and perhaps many of you are familiar with her coverage of the unfolding of the COVID-19 pandemic in India.īut in addition to this ground reporting, she also became a household name as the host of the weekly award-winning talk show We the People, as well as the daily primetime show, The Buck Stops Here on New Deli Television. ![]() She's been chosen as an Asia Society, Asia 21 Fellow, as well as Amita and Bikram Gandhi fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute.Īnd beyond her many accolades, and I could list many more, her career has been noteworthy, in particular for the number of roles she has played. She's been recognized twice as global leader for tomorrow by the World Economic Forum and has been honored with the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honor and also nominated for an Emmy. She has had a decorated career as a journalist, as the winner of over 40 national and international Awards. ![]() Stephens College in Delhi and Columbia University in New York. She's one of India's best known broadcast journalists with over 20 years of experience in the field. Our guest today, Barkha Dutt needs no introduction, but I will endeavor to give one anyway. Thank you all for coming and I'm going to try and keep this quick. I'm Tariq Thachil, I'm the Director of the Center Advanced Study of India (CASI), who is hosting this event.
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