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Barkha Dutt in news footage during the Kargil War. The background shows a BM-21 Grad MRL system mounting a rocket barrage at Tiger Hill, prior to the battle of Tiger Hill.
Barkha Dutt in news footage during the Kargil War. The background shows a BM-21 Grad MRL system mounting a rocket barrage at Tiger Hill, prior to the battle of Tiger Hill.

Barkha Dutt (born December 18, 1971) is a TV journalist of India . Barkha presently works for NDTV. Image File history File links Kargil_Pinaka. ... In film and video, footage is the raw, unedited material as it has been recorded by the camera, which usually must be edited to create a motion picture, video clip, television show or similar completed work. ... Combatants India Pakistan, Kashmiri secessionists, Islamic militants (Foreign Fighters) Strength 30,000 5,000 Casualties Indian Official Figures: 527 killed,[1][2][3] 1,363 wounded[4] 1 POW Pakistani Estimates: 357–4,000+ killed[5][6] (Pakistan troops) 665+ soldiers wounded[5] 8 POWs. ... BM-21 battery. ... BM-13 Katyusha RM-70 of the Polish Army A multiple rocket launcher is a type of unguided rocket artillery system, in use since the Second World War. ... This article is about vehicles powered by rocket engines. ... is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... NDTV (New Delhi Television Limited), founded in 1988, is Indias largest private television production house. ...

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Early life

Barkha was born to S.P. Dutt (called "Speedy" because of his initials) and Prabha Dutt (nee Behl).[1]Speedy was an official in Air-India and Prabha was a Chief of Bureau of the Hindustan Times for quite some time. Her childhood days were spent shuttling between New Delhi and New York.[2] Air India (formerly Air-India, Hindi: ) is the national flag carrier of India with a worldwide network of passenger and cargo services. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... “NY” redirects here. ...


Barkha credits her journalism skills to her mother, Prabha, a pioneer among women journalists in India. Prabha Dutt graduated from the Chandigarh School of Journalism with honours and did her inhouse training with the Hindustan Times, Delhi in 1964. Prabha Dutt died in 1984, when she was in her prime, due to a brain haemorrhage. At that time Barkha was just thirteen.[1] , Chandigarh   (Punjabi: , Hindi: , pronunciation: ) also called The City Beautiful , is a city in India that serves as the capital of two states: Punjab and Haryana. ...


Education

Barkha was educated at the Modern School, New Delhi. She then did her Bachelor's degree in English literature from St. Stephen's College, New Delhi. After this, she did her Master's degree in Mass Communication from Jamia Milia Islamia's Mass Communication Research Center New Delhi. The Modern School is one of the oldest schools in New Delhi, located on Barakhamba Road next to Connaught Place. ... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years. ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian, V.S... For other St. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Mass communication is the term used to describe the academic study of various means by which individuals and entities relay information to large segments of the population all at once through mass media. ... Jamia Milia Islamia is an Indian Central University located in New Delhi. ...


That was the time NDTV was just about starting and Barkha took up a job with the channel. "There was no looking back after that," she says.[1] She was a 1997 winner of the Inlaks Scholarship, which sends six Indians abroad annually for graduate work. Barkha took two years off from work and got a master's in journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, New York. Columbia University is a private research university in the United States and a member of the prestigious Ivy League. ... The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is the only journalism school in the Ivy League; it awards the Pulitzer Prize and duPont-Columbia Award; co-sponsors the National Magazine Award and publishes the Columbia Journalism Review. ...


Career as Reporter

Barkha's coverage of the 1999 Kargil Conflict while working for Star News gained much of her reach, though she confessed later that she did not perform her journalistic duty during her war reporting.[3] Barkha Dutt was also indirectly responsible for causing the death of several Indian soldiers who died when Pakistani soldiers opened fire on them. She had been warned by the Indian Army not to use her camera at night as that would expose their position to the Pakistani soldiers. Despite the great dangers to herself and those around her, she disobeyed those instructions for a few minutes of great video footage. As expected, Pakistani soldiers were able to locate the position of the Indian camp and opened fire on them, causing the death of several soldiers who died completely in vain. [4] The Kargil War was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan in late 1999 in Indian-controlled Kashmir. ...


For her war reporting skills, she is often compared with Christiane Amanpour of CNN, and like Amanpour, she is called 'war slut' in India.[5] Christiane Amanpour, CBE (born January 12, 1958) (in Persian: ) is the chief international correspondent for CNN. // Shortly after her birth in London, her British mother Patricia, and her father Mohammed, an Iranian airline executive, moved the family to Tehran. ... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ...


Apart Kargil, Barkha was also anchorperson of the 8 p.m. 60 Minutes and co-anchored "Newshour," an hour-long analysis and discussion program on Star News. Barkha Dutt joined NDTV later and today, she is the Managing Editor of the Channel. She stays in Safdarjung Enclave, the posh residential locality in New Delhi. She also hosts the talkshow, We The People on NDTV. Some of her writings can also be viewed in Outlook magazine's website. 1 July 2002 Cover Page Outlook is an Indian weekly English newsmagazine in publication since October 1995. ...


Her recent coverage of the Tsunami disaster from Nagapattinam won appreciation from viewers and media professionals alike[citation needed]. She is also on the editorial advisory board of cultural online magazine- Cerebration.


See also

NDTV 24x7 is a premier English language news channel in India that is owned by New Delhi Television Ltd. ... We the People logo We the People is the popular Television program in India and running over NDTV. Barkha Dutt hosts this program. ...

Notes

  • http://www.saja.org/dutt.html
  • http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040711/spectrum/main1.htm
  • http://living.oneindia.in/celebrity/barkha_dutt.html
  • http://www.thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web203101632Hoot80432%20PM1258&pn=1
  • http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040711/spectrum/main1.htm

References

  1. ^ a b c
  2. ^ She dares. Retrieved on 2007-03-20.
  3. ^ Confessions of a war reporter. Retrieved on 2007-03-20.
  4. ^ Barkha Dutt - a new controversy!. Retrieved on 2007-08-28.
  5. ^ Indian Christiane Amanpour. Retrieved on 2007-09-06.

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See also

  • List of news anchors in India

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External links

  • Profile at South Asian Journalists Association website
  • Profile at Asha Foundation website

  Results from FactBites:
 
ASHA Women : Barkha Dutt (257 words)
Barkha Dutt was born in India on 18th December 1971 and is one of India's foremost reporters.
In the summer of 1999, Barkha became one of the best-known journalists in the country because of her work during the Kargil War, India's first "televised conflict." Her daily reports from the front kept the nation enthralled, bringing the war home to every household.
Barkha was conferred a BA degree in English literature from St. Stephen's College, Delhi; a master's in mass communications from Jamia Milia Islamia's Mass Communications Research Center, Delhi; and a master's in journalism from Columbia University, New York.
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