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  • 4 weeks ago | htsyndication.com | Barkha Dutt

    Posted On: 2025-05-31 Posted By: Barkha Dutt National Politics HT Lucknow India, May 31 -- Not so long ago, Yogendra Yadav, otherwise a fierce critic of the Narendra Modi government, told me that among the things those opposing the BJP got wrong was how to respond on issues of national security.

  • 4 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Barkha Dutt

    Intellectualising what comes to most Indians intuitively, a simple emotional surge for flag, anthem and military, confines this section of the Left only to echo chambers. I was astonished to see the level of disconnect between those still trapped in textbook ideas and how most of the country thinks and feels.

  • 1 month ago | hindustantimes.com | Barkha Dutt

    Even as a war reporter who cut my teeth in journalism with frontline coverage of the Kargil conflict in 1999, the scenes I witnessed on the ground during Operation Sindoor were unprecedented, surreal, and harbingers of what modern warfare will look like. Travelling by road through Punjab and Jammu — the airports were shut — one had to adjust to driving blind through precautionary blackouts. If I looked up, I would often see balls of orange fire light up the thick, black sky.

  • 1 month ago | htsyndication.com | Barkha Dutt

    India, May 3 -- I was in the US on the day the Pahalgam terror attack took place. I don't usually watch television news, but frustrated at being thousands of miles away when this carnage was unfolding back home, in a region that has also been my reporting beat for three decades, I scoured the hotel TV channels and newspapers for some attention given to the cold-blooded execution of 26 tourists who had been targeted for their faith.

  • 1 month ago | hindustantimes.com | Barkha Dutt

    I was in the US on the day the Pahalgam terror attack took place. I don’t usually watch television news, but frustrated at being thousands of miles away when this carnage was unfolding back home, in a region that has also been my reporting beat for three decades, I scoured the hotel TV channels and newspapers for some attention given to the cold-blooded execution of 26 tourists who had been targeted for their faith.

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