Unquiet land by barkha dutt biography

Indian television journalist and author

Barkha Dutt is an Indian television journalist and author. She has been a reporter and news anchor at NDTV and Tiranga TV. She currently runs her own digital news channel called 'MoJo Story'.^[2]

Dutt was part of NDTV's team for 21 years, until she left the channel in January 2017.^[3] She emerged as a prominent figure after her frontline war reporting on the Kargil Conflict between India and Pakistan in 1999.^[4] Dutt has won many national and international awards, including the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour.^[5] Dutt was one of the journalists taped in the Radia tapes controversy.^[6]

Personal life

She was born in New Delhi to S. P. Dutt, an Air India official, and Prabha Dutt, who was a well-known journalist with the Hindustan Times.^[7] Dutt credits her journalistic skills to her mother, a pioneer among women journalists in India.^{[8] Barkha dutt marriage!}