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Barkha Dutt Dedicates Asian TV Award To Trolls In A Fashion We Call WINNING!

bySusri Sahu
8th December 2016
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Barkha Dutt, whether you like it or not, is a lady of opinion. As a journalist of the contemporary times, she is never shy of voicing her questions. However, with the booming social media, she has also found herself in the red book of online trolls and haters.

Not once, not twice but innumerable are the occasions when the hoi polloi didn’t wait to denounce her the as ‘pseudo secularist’, they love to hate!

But, the tables have turned. Or so Barkha, says. After winning the Best News Programme in the Asian Television Award for her show, ‘The Buck Stops Here’ for the coverage of Pathankot terror attacks, the columnist took to Facebook and dedicated the award to her trolls in the quirkiest fashion, we call WINNING! Read the post here.

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The trophy came home ! Images from the Asian Television Award for my show Buck Stops Here which was recognised as the Best News Programme in Singapore for the work my team and I did while ground reporting on the Pathankot terror attacks. It remains extremely satisfying that our most high-profile international awards have been not for jibber-jabber but for old fashioned Journalism and reporting from tough conflict zones and areas of tension. Especially satisfying because these days when I am on travels to the border and the line of control or when i cover terror strikes like Pathankot there are so many inane attempts at smear campaigns online -an effort to intimidate really- and I can take many things but will NEVER accept any attempt at intimidation, bullying and silencing-which is what a lot of the Twitter crap is insidiously about. I dedicated this one to my trolls haha!!
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So thanks ATA Singapore for this with special mentions to Ruby Dhingra Zaffar Iqbal Sudhi Ranjan Sen who were there with me on the ground reporting and also to my fantastic camera crew-Manoj, Manu Nair Manjunath Gangadaraiah and of course to Juhi Tyagi Yamini Joshi Shorbani Bhattacharya Noman Siddiqui Apta Ramesh Neha Kukreja Sethi Prafulla Mishra who always hold it all together so magically and Rohit Wellington who received the award for us all.

 

In the words of Michelle Obama, ‘when they go low, we go high!’

You can read the entire post here.

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