The PM must step in
The debate on the farmers’ protests has gone well beyond discussing what is the best
By Barkha Dutt February 14, 2021Barkha Dutt is an Emmy-nominated reporter, an author and a columnist. One of India's finest journalists, Dutt is a Contributing Editor of THE WEEK.
The debate on the farmers’ protests has gone well beyond discussing what is the best
By Barkha Dutt February 14, 2021The vaccine wars have reached a tenuous truce, with both Serum Institute of India
By Barkha Dutt January 17, 2021Depending on which economist you speak to, you can be persuaded either way on the
By Barkha Dutt December 20, 2020Despite the shades of Pennsylvania in Patna—the late count, the allegation of
By Barkha Dutt November 22, 2020India’s television news is in meltdown. Channels are fighting among themselves. The
By Barkha Dutt October 25, 2020Migrant workers, forgotten during the lockdown, appear to be forgotten even in the
By Barkha Dutt September 27, 2020I was a child of television. Unlike many journalists who migrated from newspapers to
By Barkha Dutt August 30, 2020It would be a mistake to see the Rajasthan political crisis as a story bound by
By Barkha Dutt August 02, 2020For me, being on the ground in Ladakh this past week felt oddly personal. Twenty-one
By Barkha Dutt July 05, 2020As I write this I have just entered the state of Kerala after a 72-hour road odyssey
By Barkha Dutt June 07, 2020If there is one takeaway I have from the nearly 50 days I have now been on the road,
By Barkha Dutt May 10, 2020If the coronavirus pandemic were not enough of an existential challenge, it has been
By Barkha Dutt April 12, 2020Barring the work of a few good men who did their job bravely, the complicity of the
By Barkha Dutt March 07, 2020In two decades of being a journalist, I have never seen the kind of campaign we are
By Barkha Dutt February 08, 2020By now we have all seen the videos of the mob assault at Jawaharlal Nehru University
By Barkha Dutt January 11, 2020