Sunday, February 14, 2010

Nusra Kalim writes on Barkha Dutt

BARKHA DUTT

Barkha Dutt, the famous T.V journalist and columnist was born on 18th December, 1971 in Delhi in a Punjabi family. Her father was an official in the Air India and her mother, Prabha Dutt was the chief of bureau of Hindustan Times.

Barkha Dutt did her schooling from Modern School, New Delhi and graduated from St.Stephen’s College, Delhi with English literature. She did her master’s from Jamia Millia Islamia,New Delhi and master’s in Mass Communication from Columbia University, New York. Her childhood days were spent in Delhi and New York.

She is currently group editor, English news at New Delhi television. She won many national and international awards including the Padama Shri, the forth highest civilian award. She writes a popular column for Hindustan Times called “Third Eye”.

As a journalist, Dutt began her carer at NDTV. Dutt did reporting for the Kargil conflict in 1999 including interview with Captain Vikram Batra, brought her prominence in India. Generally, when we think of Kargil war what comes to our mind is sacrifice, valor and courage of our soldiers but actually there was also one woman who literally brought the war front to our home with the help of media.

Barkha Dutt, won the Padmashri for her coverage of the 2004 Tsunami and Common Wealth Broadcasters award for journalist of the year. In the year 2008, she received the Indian News Broadcast Award for most intelligent news show host. She has been awarded the Global Leader of Tomorrow Award twice by World Economy Forum (2001,2008).

We are fortunate that our country has such a brilliant and dynamic journalist.