Barkha Dutt

Indian Journalist

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India's only Emmy nominated reporter, Padmashri winner, and recipient of more than 50 national and international awards, including the Young Leader of Tomorrow from the World Economic Forum- is one of the key thought leaders of our time. 

After making a splash on the Indian media stage, where she has worked in television for almost 25 years, Barkha Dutt has now established her presence on the international stage. She is a columnist with the Washington Post. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/barkha-dutt/), one of the world's most influential papers and makes regular appearances on BBC, CNN and other international fora. 

Barkha Dutt's journalism experience scans a gamut of subjects and issues. She is one of the country's foremost conflict reporters who became a household name reporting from the front line during the Kargil war of 1999. Since then she has covered war and conflict from Kashmir, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Egypt. She has emerged as a foremost analyst on strategic affairs with a specialization in the India-Pakistan region, writing papers for think tanks like the Observer Research Foundation. (ORF). 

Barkha Dutt has also reported extensively on Indian politics, covering every national and assembly election since 1995. She has not limited her journalism to a television studio; instead, she has travelled the length and breadth of India giving her a unique on-ground perspective. 

Barkha Dutt is a role model for millions of Indian women and has inspired young girls in particular. She is bold, outspoken and fearless and has charted her own course. In keeping with the shifting trends of the media market, she has now turned entrepreneur, as the Founding Editor of Mojo and We The Women, a multi-media content and events company and forum.

We The Women is a multi-city festival curated by Barkha Dutt across the cities of India in partnership with Facebook and UN Women.   

Mojo is a video-first digital platform that is in its nascent stages of growth but looking to scale up massively in 2020. 

Barkha Dutt is also a columnist with the Hindustan Times, & The Week and a Contributing Editor with Vogue. 

She is a thought leader with diverse interests and one of the most followed journalists in the world on Twitter with a follower count of 7 million. 

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