Barkha Dutt

Barkha Dutt is a journalist based in New Delhi, who is currently a columnist for the Washington Post and a contributing editor at The Week.

Confessions of a war reporter

A reporter recollects the untold stories of the 1999 Kargil War.

Mar 06, 2019

Latest Articles

How Southasia and Oman intertwined

In ‘Sovereigns of the Sea’, the histories of Omani sultans in the age of empire speak to the interconnectedness of Southasia, West Asia and East Africa

Crisis in India’s bread basket

How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity

Images of the two Punjabs, partitioned yet forever alike

A photographer’s journey through the Punjab in India and Pakistan shows a land and a people still tied together, despite Partition and the militarised border in between