His ambition, she writes, was driven more by personal goals than ideological ones.Īlthough she writes about being targeted for “everything that has been wrong about the media coverage of a major incident or event,” the 300-page book does not dwell on whether there might be inherent faults in the way media works that might make people angry.ĭutt also writes about the subject that everyone in the news business is thinking about. President Obama seemed to puncture his arguments attacking the country’s elitisim.
But his growing cult-making phenomenon, and controversial episodes such as the monogrammed pinstriped suit seen in a meeting with U.S. He replied that he “had no intention” of giving her an interview and that “talking was just fine”. She describes Modi’s prime ministership as altering the Indian political narrative that talked about “merit and anti-elitism”. During “small talk” with the PM at a wedding in Chennai, she joked about how she thought he didn’t wish to talk to her. “He was like a man looking for the exactitudes of mathematics in the mysteries of poetry,” she writes.ĭutt draws a more complex picture of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who she says doesn’t like her and would not give her an interview. In contrast to Gandhi being described as “not-too-bright (in far less charitable terms)” on Delhi’s grapevine, Dutt paints a portrait of a well-read man whose “clinical, statistical approach” may be misplaced in a profession that was more about “instinct and human connections”. When Priyanka Vadra invited Dutt to meet Rahul Gandhi to talk about broadcasting an interview with him for NDTV, the journalist “got the distinct impression that he was more persuaded than willing when it came to being interviewed.” (Ex-NDTV reporter and current Times Now Newshour host Arnab Goswami got the interview in the end.)
The book offers insights into the personalities of India’s politicians as well.
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It is also a discussion on the impact of TV news on this narrative, like covering the 1999 Kargil war or the Gujarat riots in 2002 or the rise of combative politics made for studio broadcast and the emergence of “middle-class” activism and politics such as Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption movement and Arvind Kejriwal’s entry into politics. The book is a diary of her reporting years, supplemented by analyses of events that have shaped the social and political narrative of the country. In a rare revelation from her personal life, Dutt writes about the sexual abuse that she suffered as a child and experiencing violence in a relationship with a batch mate while studying at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University. government got former President Bill Clinton “actively involved” in finding a way to end the conflict. These revelations were made by the late Brajesh Mishra, who worked as then-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s principal secretary and national security adviser. Another scoop in the book: the Indian side didn’t rule out a nuclear war or crossing line of control to end the conflict. (For interview with Barkha Dutt, click here)ĭutt’s career breakthrough came because of her coverage of the India-Pakistan Kargil war of 1999. The meeting, Dutt writes, could have led to Modi openly reaching out to Sharif through a phone call two months later, characterized as an “innocuous good-luck call for the World Cup.” Indian industrialist Sajjan Jindal facilitated the meeting in his hotel room. Her biggest scoop: a “secret” meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif at the SAARC summit in Kathmandu.
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