In the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections, an English news channel named Harvest TV was launched with senior Congress leader, Kapil Sibal as one of its promoters. Later, Harvest TV was renamed as Tiranga TV, after the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) allowed Sibal’s channel to use the new name and logo without the colours, saffron and green. The channel boasted of some erstwhile big names including Barkha Dutt and Karan Thapar. When the news of the mass layoff of employees at the Tiranga TV first came to light, many people on social media questioned Barkha Dutt for her silence on the issue. At that time, Barkha Dutt had tersely replied that she was not involved in the management of the company. However, today Barkha Dutt broke her silence and took on Kapil Sibal and his wife for the mass layoffs in a long Twitter thread.
Dutt’s two and a half-decade career has met with controversy, glory, fame, criticism and publicity. So far there has been a very clear ideological divide between the supporters of Barkha Dutt and her critics. She openly took a leftist ideological position in the public sphere and peddled twisted narratives to demean and defame the right-wing. Barkha is known for inadvertently giving away crucial information to Pakistan on how India was planning to attack Tiger Hill during the Kargil War. Not only that, Barkha Dutt and her colleagues across the media were slammed for unethical reporting during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. She was also criticised for her biased coverage on 2002 Gujarat riots. She is also well known for peddling anti-India narratives on Kashmir and basically made her career by peddling anti-Modi agenda post 2002. Barkha Dutt also created controversy when she chose to romanticize slain Hizbul terrorist Burhan Wani by calling him “son of school headmaster”. She was even lauded by global terrorist Hafiz Saeed for doing ‘good work in Kashmir’. Barkha Dutt started her career with NDTV. Her family is deeply entrenched in Lutyen’s Delhi like other prominent figures associated with the leftist media house. She was educated from St. Stephen’s College with a degree in English literature and did her Master’s in Mass Communication from Jamia Millia Islamia’s Mass Communication Research Centre. In the 21 years career with NDTV, she hosted the daily prime-time show The Buck Stops Here and talk-show We The People. She became a role model for the left-liberal journalistic community and was actively supported by the UPA government. Barkha Dutt along with Rajdeep Sardesai and Vinod Dua was awarded Padma Shri by the Congress UPA government in 2008. Interestingly, these three journalists are well-known supporters of Congress party and well-established members of Lutyen’s gang. Her family and relatives were in top managerial positions in PSUs and bureaucracy since independence. Barkha Dutt openly took a pro-Congress line despite the fact that as a journalist and a moderator she was expected to be neutral. It is in public knowledge that Barkha Dutt is close to Congress party leadership and her name had also appeared in the Radia Tapes controversy. “Dutt’s role in the Radia Tapes did not seem to point to an individual act but an institutional malaise,” said Hartosh Singh Bal, the then editor of Open Magazine which brought the tapes in public. But once the Congress government was ousted from power after 2014, her association with NDTV management started deteriorating. She was close to Congress and bad electoral performance of the party did not go well with the career of Barkha Dutt. In 2016, she changed her role at NDTV to Consulting Editor. She collaborated with veteran journalist and former editor in chief of Indian Express to launch web-based portal ThePrint. However, her association with Shekhar Gupta did not go very well as initially she was listed as co-founder on the website then later her name was removed. Later she was again listed as co-founder and was removed again. When finally the ThePrint was launched she hosted a show named NewskaJuice which was later shut down after a few episodes. In 2017, she permanently resigned from NDTV and later joined Washington Post as contributing columnist in January 2017. “Delighted to be a Contributing Columnist for @WashingtonPost .Look forward to working with the very Best,” tweeted Dutt.
In July 2017, she had a Twitter spat with former colleague Nidhi Razdan over ‘MoJo’. “Ndtv finance woes apart isn’t it wrong to appropriate someone’s brand name & new form of journalism as yours ? Thoughts in this thread,” she tweeted in a series on Tweets. On this Razdan replied, “’Mojo’ widely used term for Mobile Journalism world over for some years, NDTV India launched show called ‘Mojo’ on Dec 19, 2016.”
After her association with ThePrint failed to take off, she joined Kapil Sibal’s Tiranga TV. After the fallout of Kapil Sibal, her association with Congress party and the left-liberal cabal is expected to decimate. Given the fact, right-wing media has very well stated for Barkha Dutt and her ideological positions, she will not get a place there. So, now the only thing Barkha Dutt is left with is Contributing Editor with Washington Post. In her two and a half decade long career, Dutt must have never been so alone. A journalist who was an idol for the people looking for a career in the media industry when the Congress party was in power is now left with no permanent job after five years.
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Akhilesh Yadav Better For Chief Minister Than Me: Sheila Dikshit To NDTV India News | Reported by Barkha Dutt, Written by Suparna Singh | Wednesday January 4, 2017Sheila Dikshit, the 78-year-old picked as the Congress' presumptive Chief Minister for Uttar Pradesh, told NDTV today that Akhilesh Yadav, as "a young person" would be more suitable to head the government if her party allies with him, a prospect seen as work-in-progress in the changing political landscape of India's most populous state.
Akhilesh Yadav On 'Uncle' Amar Singh And 'Bua' Mayawati: 10 Points India News | Edited by Raija Susan Panicker | Friday December 2, 2016A relaxed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav drew laughter often from his audience today as he made multiple digs at "Uncle" Amar Singh and more than a few at "Bua (Aunt)" Mayawati, asserting that his Samajwadi Party is set to make a comeback in Uttar Pradesh where elections will be held in a few months from now. But he said, "I can't say ...
On Notes Ban, Firm Warning From West Bengal To Centre: GST Now At Risk India News | Barkha Dutt | Wednesday November 30, 2016The biggest tax reform in decades - the national Goods and Services Tax or GST - has been thoroughly jeopardized by the centre's abrupt demonetization drive, said Amit Mitra today. As the Finance Minister of West Bengal, Mr Mitra is on the GST Council, which is drafting the rate and scope of the tax.
'Does Mr Cyrus Mistry Think Tata Board Is Insane?' Ratan Tata's Lawyer India News | Reported by Barkha Dutt | Wednesday October 26, 2016Cyrus Mistry's removal was based on a combination of "economic, moral, propriety" factors, said Ratan Tata's lawyer, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, to NDTV after he spent two hours with his client, who has controversially returned as the Chairman of the Tata Group.
Ratan Tata Is Not Fighting For Piece Of Land, Says Adviser Harish Salve India News | Reported by Barkha Dutt, Written by Suparna Singh | Tuesday October 25, 2016Cyrus Mistry's surprise removal as Chairman of the Tata Group was rooted in a mismatch of values between him and Ratan Tata, his 78-year-old predecessor, according to Harish Salve, a long-time legal adviser to the $100 billion group.
India News | Written by Barkha Dutt, Edited by Suparna Singh | Tuesday October 25, 2016 A day after Cyrus Mistry was dumped by India's largest conglomerate as its top boss, sources close to Ratan Tata, who has been brought back as Chairman, accused Mr Mistry of wanting to "sell the family jewels" or the group's steel interests in the UK, and wanting to "throw Ratan Tata under the bus" in the bitter break-up with DoCoMo, which has won ...
Pak TV Images Claiming Indian Casualties Are 'Morphed, Fake': Army Sources India News | Reported by Barkha Dutt | Saturday October 1, 2016The special op forces who crossed the Line of Control for surgical strikes on Wednesday night returned "with not one scratch," top army forces have told NDTV, denying Pakstani media reports that eight soldiers were killed in the raids in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and one was captured alive. Only one soldier has "minor injuries" from stepping on a m...
Surgical Strikes Were Filmed, Troops 'Went Deep, Returned Before Sunrise' India News | Reported by Barkha Dutt, Written by Suparna Singh | Friday September 30, 2016The surgical strikes in Pakistan territory last night were carried out by India to address the "mass anger" among people after the terror attack at an army base in Uri earlier this month, said ministers who were present at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's review of security this morning.
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