Barkha Dutt

November 25, 2013 01:28 pm | Updated 01:28 pm IST - chennai

Barkha Dutt is Group Editor with NDTV, India's premiere news and current affairs network. She first emerged as a household name with her frontline war reporting on the Kargil conflict between India and Pakistan in 1999, and has since reported from several conflict zones across the world, including Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.

She has won over forty national and international awards, including the Global Leader for Tomorrow award from the World Economic Forum, the Commonwealth Broadcasters' award for 'Journalist of the Year', the Asian Television Award for ‘Best Talk Show’ and the NT Award for 'Best TV News Anchor'.

She is the youngest journalist to receive the Padma Shri. She is also the first Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellow at Brown University. Barkha hosts the weekly award-winning talk-show, 'We the People' and the daily prime time show, 'The Buck Stops Here'. She is active on Twitter ( >@bdutt ), with over a million followers.

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