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Date of birth

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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)Reply

Could you provide a reference? Then we could add it. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 10:56, 19 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

It is indeed. I have added it. Ya sh ! 12:02, 19 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Barkha's complaint about the Wikipedia

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At 1:04:50- 1:04:55 of this discussion [1], 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)Reply

There's Talk:Barkha Dutt/Archive 1#Barkha_Dutt_is_unmarried 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)Reply

Blogger mention

Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I'm removing this. The original discussion #Use of CIOL as source here shows clear consensus to remove. The more recent #Chaitanya Kunte mention 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)Reply

Criticism content

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Britta Ohm wrote in 2011 that Dutt has attracted "substantial criticism" over the past few years for her various aspects of her reporting.^[1] 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.^[2] Varadarajan wrote that it was improper on part of Barkha Dutt to recognise a politically mobilised mob as "Hindus".^[3]

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)Reply

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)Reply

References

^ Ohm, Britta (2011). Banaji, Shakuntala (ed.). South Asian Media Cultures: Audiences, Representations, Contexts. London, UK: Anthem Press. ISBN 9781843313205. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
^ Polgreen, Lydia (3 December 2010). "A Journalist in India Ends Up in the Headlines". New York Times. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
^ Sonwalkar, Prasun (2006). Cole, Benjamin (ed.). Conflict, Terrorism And the Media in Asia. Routledge. p. 89. ISBN 9780415351980. Retrieved 12 July 2013.

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RfC about lead

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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)Reply

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[ohm-1] Ohm, Britta (2011). Banaji, Shakuntala (ed.). South Asian Media Cultures: Audiences, Representations, Contexts. London, UK: Anthem Press. ISBN 9781843313205. Retrieved 15 July 2013.

[polgreen-2] Polgreen, Lydia (3 December 2010). "A Journalist in India Ends Up in the Headlines". New York Times. Retrieved 12 July 2013.

[cole-3] Sonwalkar, Prasun (2006). Cole, Benjamin (ed.). Conflict, Terrorism And the Media in Asia. Routledge. p. 89. ISBN 9780415351980. Retrieved 12 July 2013.

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