Barkha Dutt
Indian television journalist and author · India · Journalists · Born 1971 · age 54
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Something wrong?She reported live from the frontlines of the 1999 Kargil war between India and Pakistan, turning combat journalism into prime-time television and herself into one of India's most recognized - and polarizing - news faces.
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, In a changing India, gender finally does not exist only on the margins of public and political attention.
When I was in my 20s, I covered the Kargil war from the frontline. I have grown up as the daughter of India’s first woman war correspondent.
If you’d asked me what it is like to be a woman in this profession 20-30 years ago, I would have said that gender doesn’t matter. But today, gender does matter.
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Barkha Dutt spent 21 years at NDTV, where her career-defining moment came during the 1999 Kargil Conflict - her war reporting made her a household name overnight. The prominence brought national honors, including the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award, and a long run as one of Indian television's most watched anchors. It also brought scrutiny: she was among the journalists caught in the 2010 Radia tapes controversy, a scandal involving leaked phone conversations between a corporate lobbyist and media figures. She left NDTV in January 2017 after more than two decades and now runs MoJo Story, her own digital news operation.
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