End Quote by Barkha Dutt

If you leave out the magnetic stardom of sportsmen and actors, middle-class India today really has just two heroes - the army and the…

— Barkha Dutt

Women - whether in politics, media or business - can't have it both ways. We can't demand to be judged irrespective of our gender…

— Barkha Dutt

I don't care if a flight attendant is fat as long as she doesn't sneak back to the galley for a gossip when she…

— Barkha Dutt

In 2020 we saw the poorest Indian citizen suffer as migrant workers, in the hundreds of thousands, fled the cities on foot, sometimes barefoot,…

— Barkha Dutt

Wherever I go, people complain about what they see on television. Yet, if you are lapping this up because it's random entertainment or from…

— Barkha Dutt

What other, newer democracies find relatively easy - conducting an election, the counting of votes, the peaceful transition of power - seems to have…

— Barkha Dutt

Politics, by definition, is risk averse. Perhaps that's why America was so awestruck when Barack Obama ended the Black vs White debate by painting…

— Barkha Dutt

In many ways, Ahmed Patel was the mind of Sonia Gandhi. Nearly everything we know about her publicly was constructed or revealed with his…

— Barkha Dutt

India cannot pretend anymore that none of its citizens fancy membership to the Global Jehad club. We need to examine where our secularism has…

— Barkha Dutt

Yes, fear and repression may be permanent citizens in Narendra Modi's Gujarat.

— Barkha Dutt

Much has already been said about the indisputable integrity of men such as AB Bardhan and Prakash Karat. So, why is it that while…

— Barkha Dutt

The working conditions of Indian labourers in the Gulf countries are notoriously abusive.

— Barkha Dutt