I am angry but how do we fix our broken system?” Bahar wrote on Twitter sharing a photo of her father.
She is now an anchor for Tiranga TV and hosts the primetime show Democracy Live. She was with the news channel NDTV for 21 years before she quit in 2017. His father was affectionately called (Soon Singh) because of his initials.
Both siblings, Barkha and myself are raised by their mother, a leading journalist. He has an elder sister Barkha Dutt Leading Journalist.
In 2016, she was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour, by the Government of India. We didn’t get an ambulance with oxygen so his condition worsened on the way to the hospital. She shot to fame when she reported on the Kargil War of 1999, and for her interview with Captain Vikram Batra. Bahar Dutt is the second child of AIR India officer SP Dutt and Hindustan Times journalist Prabha Dutt. Barkha Dutt (born November 19, 1966) is an Indian television journalist and presenter ex employed by the English news channel NDTV 24×7. “This is my father, he can fix anything in the house. She is the author of This Unquiet Land: Stories from India’s Fault Lines. Through her YouTube news channel MoJo, Barkha Dutt has been covering the second wave of Covid-19 and the impact of the infection on the diurnal lives of people.īarkha Dutt’s sister Bahar Dutt had also expressed her anguish last week saying that their father was suffering from breathing problems because of Covid-19. Barkha Dutt is an award-winning TV journalist and anchor with more than two decades of reporting experience. My best tribute to him is to redouble my commitment to report COVID on the ground & give voice to those who don’t have one /i0rVEhLRrO- barkha dutt April 27, 2021 I’d like to remember Speedy as the handsome man, eccentric scientist, doting father who gave my sister and I wings, than to think of him strapped to pipes. My best tribute to him is to redouble my commitment to report Covid on the ground & give voice to those who don’t have one.” I’d like to remember Speedy as the handsome man, eccentric scientist, doting father who gave my sister and I wings, than to think of him strapped to pipes. Barkha Dutt is an Indian television journalist, author and owner of YouTube news channel MoJo Story.23 She is an opinion columnist with The Hindustan Times4 and The Washington Post.5 Dutt was part of NDTV's team for 21 years, until she left the channel in January 2017. Referring to her father fondly as ‘Speedy’, Barkha wrote, “My father loved to invent things, make trains, planes and of course, his grandchildren. He never broke a promise he made to us /ZUDwoa1LDa- barkha dutt April 27, 2021īarkha also thanked the frontline workers who helped her family during this crisis, saying, “My father’s last words to me were: “I’m choking, treat me”- to all the doctors at Medanta, nurses, ward staff, security guards, ambulance drivers, my gratitude for trying so hard.” When I took him to hospital, against his will, I promised I would bring him home in two days. The kindest, loveliest man I have every known, my father Speedy, lost the COVID battle and died this morning.