{"id":8761,"date":"2022-06-10T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/?p=8761"},"modified":"2022-06-10T19:46:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T19:46:53","slug":"professor-alka-kurian-interviews-barkha-dutt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/professor-alka-kurian-interviews-barkha-dutt\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate Teaching Professor Alka Kurian interviews Barkha Dutt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Article first published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias-news\/may-2022\/barkha-dutt-interview\">UW Bothell website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>IAS faculty member\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/faculty-and-staff\/alka-kurian\">Alka Kurian<\/a>\u00a0interviewed Barkha Dutt at an\u00a0event hosted by\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/tasveer.org\/\" href=\"https:\/\/tasveer.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tasveer<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0May 27, 2022.\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barkha_Dutt\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barkha_Dutt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barkha Dutt\u00a0<\/a>is one of India&#8217;s best-known and award-winning broadcast journalists with over 20 years of experience. She is a columnist with the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0<em>Hindustan Times<\/em>\u00a0and is the founder-editor of Mojo Story, an independent digital platform.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the\u00a0interview was on Dutt&#8217;s book\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/art-and-culture\/book-review-barkha-dutts-to-hell-and-back-exhumes-the-bodies-of-those-whose-stories-were-waiting-to-be-told-10531631.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/art-and-culture\/book-review-barkha-dutts-to-hell-and-back-exhumes-the-bodies-of-those-whose-stories-were-waiting-to-be-told-10531631.html\"><em>To Hell and Back: Humans of Covid<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em>which charts her experience traveling 30,000 kilometers across the length and breadth of India to offer the human story of Covid. In this moving interview, Dutt talked about chronicling, among others the\u00a0great march of working-class migrants, the breakdown of the Indian public health system, the loneliness of elderly people, and the loss of her father to Covid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TasveerOrgUS\/videos\/1226481381428662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View a recording of the interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article first published on UW Bothell website.\u00a0 IAS faculty member\u00a0Alka Kurian\u00a0interviewed Barkha Dutt at an\u00a0event hosted by\u00a0Tasveer\u00a0on\u00a0May 27, 2022.\u00a0Barkha Dutt\u00a0is one of India&#8217;s best-known and award-winning broadcast journalists with over 20 years of experience. She is a columnist with the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0and the\u00a0Hindustan Times\u00a0and is the founder-editor of Mojo Story, an independent digital platform. 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