Barkha Dutt

Modi's masterstroke has always been to blur the battlelines and construct an artificial enemy one that plays into primal instincts of pride…

— Barkha Dutt

Hindi news is much more determinedly populist and lowbrow than the English channels.

— Barkha Dutt

Politics is Darwinian. Individuals will prioritise their future first.

— Barkha Dutt

The army's original job description was to protect borders, but a demanding country depends on it for everything else too, from rebuilding…

— Barkha Dutt

Covid-19-affected patients cannot be orphaned.

— Barkha Dutt

Even atheists and agnostics - and I'm an agnostic - can respond with respect to the cultural infiltration of religion into our…

— Barkha Dutt

In a country like ours where the poor barely have the right to live, a legally recognised right to die would push…

— Barkha Dutt

The fact is that a ghastly class prejudice defines our response to the Indian Diaspora.

— Barkha Dutt

A hidden camera must never become a lazy substitute for the rigours of old-style reporting.

— Barkha Dutt

It's never said out aloud, or in so many words, but for many urban, upper caste Indians, 'the backwards' are precisely that…

— Barkha Dutt

National security is that old rabbit that's pulled out of the hat every time politicians run out of other tricks to keep…

— Barkha Dutt

A message you abhor has to be trumped with a more powerful one.

— Barkha Dutt

Most of us will agree that my former medium, television news, has been reduced to tawdry entertainment.

— Barkha Dutt

My father, a former Air India official, but essentially an inventor at heart - a man who loved to sometimes break machines…

— Barkha Dutt

The freedom of expression cannot be defined selectively.

— Barkha Dutt

Textbook journalism everywhere in the world has always frowned upon the sting as a tool of reporting.

— Barkha Dutt

No matter what you think of him otherwise, there are no two ways about it - Narayana Murthy is inextricably linked to…

— Barkha Dutt

The Christianity of the St Stephen's College I remember was atmospheric (how we loved the chapel, the choir and the Cross), cultural…

— Barkha Dutt

Most of us in the media are, by and large, sentimental about our national identity, but comfortable enough in our skins as…

— Barkha Dutt

Politicians know that as public opinion learns to assert itself more aggressively, a government that goes against a presidential opinion can find…

— Barkha Dutt

The hysterical competitiveness in the media bazaar has subverted the traditional hierarchy of news.

— Barkha Dutt

If the airline industry were to evolve a common fitness standard for both male and female employees, that would not just be…

— Barkha Dutt

This Right vs Left fault line has been drawn through all of our nations. In India too, your political choice has come…

— Barkha Dutt

In many professional spaces, women are fighting twice as hard as men to get to the same place and get the same…

— Barkha Dutt

The BJP promised that the end of Article 370 was going to be the close of business-as-usual in Kashmir. But if anything…

— Barkha Dutt