We do not have to be trapped in the simple-minded binaries of the western world. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
For many Indians, their future as global players is linked to the American dream. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
The sanctimony that a section of the media wears like a second skin comes undone so fast when the scrutiny is on… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
The truth is that every news channel is a variant of the other and the difference is one of degree. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
A hidden camera must never become a lazy substitute for the rigours of old-style reporting. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
To call the coronavirus a great equaliser turned out to be the greatest falsification of our time. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
I am not a pundit or a psephologist and thus not in the business of calling elections. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
For the BJP, the conversion of Bengal's cultural Hindu into a political Hindu is a long-standing project. — Barkha Dutt Communication Copy Share Image
People care when service is sluggish and comes from an arrogance and complacency that often besets those who know they can never… — Barkha Dutt Arrogance Copy Share Image
The crests and troughs in Covid-19 cases and the spikes and falls of daily infographics by which we now measure the wellness… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
Most of us marvel at the ingenuity and imaginativeness of sting operations, defend their right to exist and will argue that if… — Barkha Dutt Ingenuity Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Politics, by definition, is risk averse. Perhaps that's why America was so awestruck when Barack Obama ended the Black vs White debate… — Barkha Dutt America Copy Share Image
In countries like the U.S., the courts have upheld the right to burn the national flag as a mark of protest or… — Barkha Dutt Boundaries Copy Share Image
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 Choir Copy Share Image
Whether it's Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana or Odisha, we have seen similar patterns - hostile local politics transform into conciliation of some… — Barkha Dutt Democracy Copy Share Image
The real challenge to upholding India's freedoms is how patchy and individual-driven it is when it comes to the judiciary. The system… — Barkha Dutt Constitution Copy Share Image
The fact is that a ghastly class prejudice defines our response to the Indian Diaspora. — Barkha Dutt Class Copy Share Image
We must first be able to look honestly at fundamentalism in our own backyard, if we are to have any hope of… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
We like to say we would never want anyone we care about to suffer. But is it because it's we who cannot… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
The hysterical competitiveness in the media bazaar has subverted the traditional hierarchy of news. — Barkha Dutt Competitiveness Copy Share Image
Politics is Darwinian. Individuals will prioritise their future first. — Barkha Dutt Darwinian Copy Share Image
India's middle-class knows better than most how hard and lonely the struggle of an ordinary man can be. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
In many ways, Ahmed Patel was the mind of Sonia Gandhi. Nearly everything we know about her publicly was constructed or revealed… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
As women, many of us have internalised our lives as a prolonged version of boot camp, a sort of Darwinian call to… — Barkha Dutt Boot camp Copy Share Image
If the airline industry were to evolve a common fitness standard for both male and female employees, that would not just be… — Barkha Dutt Airline industry Copy Share Image
India cannot pretend anymore that none of its citizens fancy membership to the Global Jehad club. We need to examine where our… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
Much has already been said about the indisputable integrity of men such as AB Bardhan and Prakash Karat. So, why is it… — Barkha Dutt Character Copy Share Image
For the Modi government, the calls for a 'Naya Kashmir' has paradoxically led them right back to old established political parties after… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
Politicians know that as public opinion learns to assert itself more aggressively, a government that goes against a presidential opinion can find… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
For a man once called the Indian Obama by the historian and public intellectual Ramachandra Guha, the diminishing of Bihar chief minister… — Barkha Dutt Dramatic Copy Share Image
Neither scientific laboratories nor excavation expeditions can unravel the human need to believe in a greater truth, a truth strangely made all… — Barkha Dutt Adventure Copy Share Image
In 2020 we saw the poorest Indian citizen suffer as migrant workers, in the hundreds of thousands, fled the cities on foot,… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
When passion turns to paralysis, when our bodies stop listening to our brains, when a fatal disease sucks our insides out, will… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
The rise of Right-wing populism globally has divided not just countries, but families. It has broken relationships and torn apart friendships. It… — Barkha Dutt Family Copy Share Image
The BJP brand of Hindutva was originally rooted in middle-class disenchantment with secular hypocrisies; Modi's version is defined simply by hard-edged hatred. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What we take away from our school and college years is especially personal and rarely transferable to someone standing outside that circle… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
Parts of India treat Rushdie like he's a rock star; we especially like boasting about him to our Western friends and acquaintances.… — Barkha Dutt Friends Copy Share Image
Grief, like Covid-19, mutates and escapes the inoculation of both time and the reassurance of loving friends. It is less sledgehammer and… — Barkha Dutt Grief Copy Share Image
