Barkha Dutt

Some Lesser Known Facts About Barkha Dutt

• Barkha Dutt is a renowned Indian Journalist. She came into the limelight after she reported about the Kargil War of 1999. After the Kargil War, she became a household name in India and her popularity started growing. She hosted a talk show We The People on NDTV for 16 years. She worked in NDTV for 21 years before she left in 2017 and joined Tiranga TV.

• Her father, S. P. Dutt, was an Air India official and her mother, Prabha Dutt, was a well-known journalist with the Hindustan Times.

• Her younger sister, Bahar Dutt, is also a journalist with the CNN IBN.

  

• She joined NDTV in 1994, right after completing her college at the age of 21.

• She became popular after reporting the 1999 Kargil War including an interview with Captain Vikram Batra.

• For her coverage of the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami, she was honoured with Padma Shri (India’s 4th highest civilian honour) by the Manmohan Singh Government in 2008.

• In February 2015, she was moved to the role of Consulting Editor of NDTV.

• In December 2015, she launched her book, This Unquiet Land: Stories from India’s Fault Lines. Many significant personalities of India attended the launch such as P. Chidambaram, Kangana Ranaut, Shekhar Gupta and many more.

  

• On 15 January 2017, Barkha announced on Twitter that she was leaving NDTV after 21 years. She also wrote that it was time for her to explore new possibilities.

• In January 2019, she joined Tirangaa TV; which is owned by Harvest TV and backed and promoted by Kapil Sibal. She hosts a primetime show, Democracy Live.