Barkha Dutt is consulting editor, NDTV, and founding member, Ideas Collective. She tweets as @BDUTT.
Articles by Barkha Dutt
Judging the judges
All human beings ? even those we admire and respect ? must be held accountable, writes Barkha Dutt.
Updated on Nov 25, 2006 03:10 AM IST
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Warning: Handle with care
Is the death sentence commensurate with Afzal's level of involvement in the crime? asks Barkha Dutt.
Published on Nov 11, 2006 03:15 AM IST
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Warning: Handle with care
A dangerous polarisation has been thrown up by the Afzal debate: Kashmir is speaking an entirely different language on the case from the rest of India, Barkha Dutt comments.
Updated on Nov 11, 2006 01:03 AM IST
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Ram and Manusmriti
Ram Jethmalani's decision to defend Manu Sharma ? a craven killer who has crouched behind political patronage ? is just too hard to understand, writes Barkha Dutt.
Updated on Nov 04, 2006 03:52 AM IST
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Ram and Manusmriti
Ram Jethmalani's decision to defend Manu Sharma ? a craven killer who has crouched behind political patronage ? is just too hard to understand, writes Barkha Dutt.
Updated on Nov 04, 2006 12:39 AM IST
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Behind the veil
We believe women have travelled a long way because we are able to flaunt our sexuality, writes Barkha Dutt.
Published on Oct 28, 2006 03:26 AM IST
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Mind your language
To foist a single language on a country that speaks thousands of dialects is undemocratic, writes Barkha Dutt.
Published on Oct 07, 2006 04:08 AM IST
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Mind your language
Our brand of English is, at the very least, perfectly functional. It is our competitive edge in the global wrestling ground. We have to stop being embarrassed about it, writes Barkha Dutt.
Published on Oct 07, 2006 12:26 AM IST
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Don?t leap before we shoot
The bizarre story from Andhra Pradesh unfold on your television screens this week was not just the story of a 35-year-old man?s dramatic fall from a tall building; it was television?s fall from grace, Barkha Dutt.
Published on Sep 30, 2006 02:56 AM IST
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Don?t leap before we shoot
The bizarre story from Andhra Pradesh unfold on your television screens this week was not just the story of a 35-year-old man?s dramatic fall from a tall building; it was television?s fall from grace, writes Barkha Dutt.
Published on Sep 30, 2006 12:40 AM IST
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Walk the line
Both leaders seem much more willing to allow each other the space to perform politically in public, and talk business in private, writes Barkha Dutt.
Updated on Sep 23, 2006 06:01 AM IST
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Walk the line
Both leaders seem much more willing to allow each other the space to perform politically in public, and talk business in private, writes Barkha Dutt.
Published on Sep 23, 2006 03:36 AM IST
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Deserving end
What sets Mattoo case apart, is that prosecutors are pursuing the case against one of their own ilk, writes Barkha Dutt.
Published on Sep 09, 2006 03:56 AM IST
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The battle for life
I have to confess that if the court chooses death for the man who robbed the Mattoo family of all their happiness, I would not be sorry, writes Barkha Dutt.
Updated on Sep 09, 2006 02:42 AM IST
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Song sung blue
Should Vande Mataram's singing be made compulsory? Absolutely not. We all know that the song has become a plaything for our politicians, writes Barkha Dutt.
Published on Aug 26, 2006 03:48 AM IST
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Song sung blue
Should its singing be made compulsory? Absolutely not. We all know that the song has become a plaything for our politicians.
Published on Aug 26, 2006 02:46 AM IST
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Chiffon dreams RIP
"I can't believe you liked that film." Have you also had to hear that after watching Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, asks Barkha Dutt.
Published on Aug 19, 2006 03:45 AM IST
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Natwar: flip, flop, slip
A curious combination of contradiction and cowardice and of hypocrisy and hubris has pushed Natwar Singh into a hole so deep that no one can pull him out, writes Barkha Dutt.
Published on Aug 12, 2006 03:36 AM IST
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Invisible borders
Like you, I can barely follow the elaborate twists and turns of the Bombay investigations. But if the cops are to be believed, an ominous new face of terror is slowly taking shape, writes Barkha Dutt.
Published on Jul 29, 2006 12:24 AM IST
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Invisible borders
Like you, I can barely follow the elaborate twists and turns of the Bombay investigations. But if the cops are to be believed, an ominous new face of terror is slowly taking shape, writes Barkha Dutt.
Published on Jul 29, 2006 12:24 AM IST
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Out with your inner voice
Both the Prime Minister and the Congress President need to step out of the cordon thrown around them by their minders and mediators. And most of all, we?d like to know those who govern us, better, writes Barkha Dutt.
Published on Jul 22, 2006 01:49 AM IST
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Train to Pakistan
The long arm of terror can reach out to grab any one of us, and we will have to change the way we live to outsmart the opponent, writes Barkha Dutt.
Published on Jul 15, 2006 12:07 AM IST
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Remote control
If you think that the draft Bill is technical mumbo-jumbo that only big media barons and self-important journalists need to be worried about, junk that thought, writes Barkha Dutt.
Published on Jul 08, 2006 12:03 AM IST
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Scent of a Woman
Temple is less rooted in bias and relatively more enlightened than many others. But does one sort of progressiveness obliterate another kind of prejudice? Asks Barkha Dutt.
Published on Jul 01, 2006 12:08 AM IST
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The English divide
A new breed of Indians, who no longer look towards the West for self-affirmation, is making its presence felt, writes Barkha Dutt.
Published on Jun 24, 2006 12:05 AM IST
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It's not a family soap
Why are we so surprised that Rahul snorted cocaine and thought he would get away with it, asks Barkha Dutt.
Published on Jun 10, 2006 03:29 AM IST
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It's not a family soap
One month ago, he was the picture of pathos; a brave young man broken and bewildered by his father?s murder. Now suddenly, our grief has transformed dramatically into a self-satisfied gloat.
Published on Jun 10, 2006 01:17 AM IST
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Running to a better life
Let's not shackle Budhia's future and imprison him in the bureaucracy of procedure and propriety, writes Barkha Dutt.
Updated on May 10, 2006 05:38 PM IST
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Running to a better life
Third eye: Let?s not shackle Budhia?s future with misplaced notions of ?doing good?, writes Barkha Dutt.
Updated on May 10, 2006 12:38 AM IST
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Admission impossible
The romance of rebellion can blur ideology. I was 18 when I marched down the streets of Delhi against Mandal, wide-eyed at the war cries of young men, all IAS aspirants.
Published on Apr 10, 2006 11:59 PM IST
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