In a country like ours where the poor barely have the right to live, a legally recognised right to die would push… — Barkha Dutt Country Copy Share Image
We can barely deal with men who set their own rules; to ask us to accept a woman who is individualistic, passionate,… — Barkha Dutt Arrogant Copy Share Image
Most of us in the media are, by and large, sentimental about our national identity, but comfortable enough in our skins as… — Barkha Dutt Government Copy Share Image
Every time that zealots clash with the zany and Religion and Freedom take opposite positions across the trenches, the issue becomes larger… — Barkha Dutt Freedom Copy Share Image
For decades, the Left has occupied a special place in the minds of educated Indians - outside of the two states (Bengal… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
Hinduism especially - in the absence of codified rituals or a book of rules to circumscribe it - has always functioned as… — Barkha Dutt Absence 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
