Barkha Dutt

Barkha Dutt is consulting editor, NDTV, and founding member, Ideas Collective. She tweets as @BDUTT.

Articles by Barkha Dutt

Why Centre must rethink disability tax on soldiers

In the 1942 Battle of Sittang, while leading his company against Japanese forces, Sam Manekshaw took nine bullets in his stomach and intestines. He was so grievously wounded that the surgeon hesitated to operate on him. (HT Archive)
Published on Feb 13, 2026 08:52 pm IST

In Sivakumar’s story, the best and worst of India

The normalisation of bribery for basic services is the staggering and inconvenient truth of this horrible incident. Nearly everyone has been in a Sivakumar-like situation or knows someone who has. (HT Archive)
Published on Oct 31, 2025 09:25 pm IST

Saving India-US relationship from Trump & beyond

US treasury secretary Scott Bessent accused India of “profiteering” from the purchase of Russian oil. But he has also conceded that the Trump administration was taking a 10% mark up on all weapons sold to the Europeans who in turn are selling them to Ukraine. (AFP)
Published on Aug 22, 2025 09:04 pm IST

Grief, grace, and gratitude – in a time of tragedy

While there may be questions about maintenance, surely there should be many sharp questions for Boeing, the manufacturer of the 787 Dreamliner that went down in Ahmedabad. (HT Photo)
Published on Jun 13, 2025 09:16 pm IST

After Operation Sindoor, tales of Western hypocrisy

India should become too powerful for anyone to even attempt to lecture it, and a better version of China because we are a democracy (lakshmi)
Published on May 16, 2025 08:08 pm IST

Kamra vs Kanal is about mob against citizen

Bullying is bullying, and mob violence is exactly that. (Hindustan Times)
Published on Apr 04, 2025 09:23 pm IST

Adolescence is a call for conversation, compassion

This series actually tells the story of men alongside women at a time when it has often felt impossible to do so. (Adolescence/Netflix)
Published on Mar 21, 2025 07:56 pm IST

The death knell for myth of American Exceptionalism

Trump’s upending of policy, both foreign and domestic, is, by turns, wildly entertaining and often unstable and dangerous (via REUTERS)
Published on Mar 01, 2025 07:39 am IST

Congress needs to focus on politics, not polemics

New Delhi, India - Jan. 16, 2025: Congress supporters seen as Sandeep Dikshit, Candidate of Congress Party from New Delhi Constituency for upcoming Vidhan Sabha Elections goes for filing his Nomination Papers in New Delhi in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, January 16, 2025. (Photo by Sanchit Khanna/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)
Updated on Jan 17, 2025 08:33 pm IST

On terrorism, the West is guilty of double standards

It has been galling to watch and read the commentary on the showdown between India and Canada and the rising friction between India and the United States (US) over the harbouring of pro-Khalistan terrorists and separatists within their jurisdictions. (Photo by Geoff Robins / AFP) (AFP)
Published on Oct 25, 2024 08:35 pm IST

Lessons from BJP’s hat-trick in Haryana

The RSS and the BJP are resetting their relationship and managing their frictions: Their common goals keep them on the same side of the fight. (ANI Photo/Amit Sharma) (Amit Sharma)
Published on Oct 11, 2024 09:14 pm IST

Why J&K polls feel nothing like those in the past

Ganderbal, Sept 25 (ANI): Voters wait in queues to cast their votes for the second phase of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, in Ganderbal on Wednesday. (ANI Photo) (Election Commission of India-X)
Updated on Sept 27, 2024 09:14 pm IST

Kolkata to Kerala, how not to respond to sexual abuse

Birbhum: People protest against the rape and murder of a Kolkata's trainee doctor, in Birbhum district, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (PTI Photo) (PTI)
Published on Aug 30, 2024 09:25 pm IST
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