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Hafta letters: India-Pakistan, podcast ideas, team feedback, thoughts on patriotism

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Newslaundry · May 21, 2025

‘Looks like a man’: Rowling, Kangana, journos post anti-trans misinformation on Olympic boxer

It was 46 seconds of “strong blows” when Italian boxer Angela Carini abandoned her match against Algeria’s Imane Khelif in the women’s 66-kg round of 16 bout in the Paris Olympics on August 1. Carini did not shake Khelif’s hands after the defeat and remarked that she had “never faced…

Newslaundry · Aug 3, 2024

Hafta letters: Understanding Palestine, rise of fascism, reporting on Andhra Pradesh

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Newslaundry · Nov 4, 2023

I became the story I was reporting: Barkha Dutt on writing ‘To Hell and Back’ after losing her father to COVID

Acclaimed journalist Barkha Dutt won the AutHer Award 2023 in Best Non-fiction Category for her book ‘To Hell and Back: Humans of COVID’, recently.

The Times of India · Mar 30, 2023

Micro review: 'To Hell and Back: Humans of COVID' by Barkha Dutt

Well known journalist and author Barkha Dutt’s latest book ‘To Hell and Back: Humans of COVID’ chronicles the human story of the pandemic, which caused unprecedented devastation and claimed anywhere between 3 and 5 million Indian lives. Barkha Dutt won the AutHer Awards 2023 in Non-fiction category for this book.

The Times of India · Mar 24, 2023

‘Stop putting women’s writing in a box’

Why do you write about women? Shashi Deshpande, eminent novelist of contemporary Indian literature in English, has often faced this question from journalists and academics in her writing career. “Novel after novel, I hoped I would be read as a serious writer. Not as a woman writer writing about women,…

The Times of India · Mar 21, 2023

Barkha Dutt wins AutHer Award 2023 in Best Non-Fiction category

The AutHer Awards 2023 winners were announced at a gala ceremony in New Delhi on March 19, 2023. Eminent journalist Barkha Dutt won the AutHer Award 2023 in Best Non-Fiction category for her book 'To Hell and Back: Humans of COVID'.

The Times of India · Mar 20, 2023

AutHer Awards 2023 Shortlist announced

The AutHer Awards 2023 Shortlists for best women authors in Fiction, Non-Fiction, Children’s Literature, and Debut were announced today by a panel of eminent judges. The Times of India received a whopping 2000 plus entries submitted by both publishers and individual authors for the coveted award, the first of its…

The Times of India · Mar 15, 2023

Times Litfest 2023: Arun Shourie and Barkha Dutt on politics, bureaucracy, and freedom of the press

In a candid session with fire-brand journalist Barkha Dutt at the Times Literature Festival 2023, on his recently published biography, 'The Commissioner for Lost Causes', former Union Minister Arun Shourie made some cutting revelations about Indian politics and the state of democratic affairs in the country. "Politics currently is in…

The Times of India · Feb 28, 2023

Red Ink awards: Barkha Dutt and Siddharth Varadarajan among winners

Mojo Story founder-editor Barkha Dutt and the Wire’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan were among several journalists awarded at the Mumbai Press Club’s Red Ink awards ceremony on Friday. 

Newslaundry · Dec 17, 2022