Talk:Barkha Dutt

Date of birth
Her date of birth is Dec 18, 1971. Can someone please add that information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.182.159.31 (talk) 09:44, 19 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Could you provide a reference? Then we could add it. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 10:56, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * It is indeed. I have added it.  Ya  sh  !   12:02, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

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Barkha's complaint about the Wikipedia

 * At 1:04:50- 1:04:55 of this discussion, Barkha Dutt complains: "Wikipedia says I have three husbands. I've not met them yet." Is her complaint true? If so, can it be rectified? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fredericknoronha (talk • contribs) 00:00, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
 * There's Talk:Barkha Dutt/Archive 1 which refers to the Jaipur fest and to my knowledge, there continue to be repeated additions of one person as a spouse. Since long that all has been cleaned up and page temporarily protected. The article still has quite dubious content for criticism which I'm going to sniff through again but it was worse before. She might be exaggerating regarding the "three" part. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 09:24, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Blogger mention
I'm removing this. The original discussion here shows clear consensus to remove. The more recent where one editor added back, it's almost the same with blogs currently for sources, and two below average refs. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 09:37, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Criticism content
Britta Ohm wrote in 2011 that Dutt has attracted "substantial criticism" over the past few years for her various aspects of her reporting. Writing for the New York Times, Lydia Polgreen wrote that critics viewed Dutt and some other reporters as extremely "theatrical and melodramatic" in their coverage of the 2008 attacks. Varadarajan wrote that it was improper on part of Barkha Dutt to recognise a politically mobilised mob as "Hindus".

Moving this here from article for further inspection. Putting multiple quotes from these people at her bio page seems WP:UNDUE. I'm getting the feeling that the Mumbai attacks maybe more relevant to the individual article since they seem to criticise journalists' coverage of it in general rather than just her. I'll verify the sources to see what they say and see what is to be done. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 10:05, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Couldn't access Cole's book on my Google Book accounts but otherwise my suspicions were right. Polgreen's article give a well-balanced view on her and the Radia Tapes involvement while Ohm does so too regarding the 2002 Gujarat violence, these two quotes were cherry picked and gives the wrong idea, misrepresenting the sources. One can't help but think how badly the person who put this wanted to added just these two parts, that they didn't bother (intentionally?) to refer to the refs actually meant.
 * Ohm actually interestingly, calls Dutt a Hindutva supporter, which is really quite contradictory to what her detractors accuse her of. Ohm goes on to tell how Dutt covered the violence, which is really relevant and must be added here on further research.
 * Polgreen covers her early career success and goes on to say how she became the face of the Radia tapes despite featuring only in little of the tapes. Polgreen is generally supportive of her.
 * Both these sources can be used to improve the article, right now I've trimmed the criticism content to WP:DUE relevance (again). Expanding with them should help the gap that there's not much content telling how she is successful as a journalist. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 11:13, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

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RfC about lead
Should the following line from the lead be deleted?
 * Dutt was one of the journalists taped in the Radia tapes controversy.

Dutt's primary identity is a journalist and there is already a section about Radia tapes in the article. ChunnuBhai (talk) 07:06, 29 November 2020 (UTC)