Bahar Dutt Explained

Bahar Dutt
Birth Date:c. 1975
Birth Place:New Delhi, Delhi, India[1]
Education:University of Delhi
University of Kent
Occupation:Television journalist and environmental editor
Employer:CNN-IBN Live
Known For:environmental journalism
Spouse:Vijay Bedi[2]
Children:1
Father:SP Dutt
Mother:Prabha Dutt
Relatives:Barkha Dutt (sister)

Bahar Dutt (born 20 June 1975)[3] is an Indian television journalist and environmental editor and columnist for CNN-IBN.[4]

Early life

Bahar Dutt is the daughter of SP Dutt and Prabha Dutt, who was among India's first female journalists and influenced Bahar's career path.[1] Bahar Dutt is the sister of well-known journalist Barkha Dutt.[5]

Bahar is the only Indian environmental journalist to have won Green Oscar for her reporting on environment issues in India.[6] [7]

Dutt is a wildlife conservationist by training. She first earned a degree in social work from University of Delhi. Dutt then pursued wildlife conservation at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology from the University of Kent and earned her MSc degree.[8]

Career

Before turning to journalism, Dutt worked on her own conservation projects.[9] She spent seven years with the Bahelias, or snake charmers, across Haryana and Rajasthan in northern India. India's Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 made wild animals public property, which made the snake charmers' practice of catching snakes and training them illegal.[10] Dutt worked with them to combine their knowledge of snakes and musical abilities into public performances and education without the use of snakes. In that project she merged wildlife conservation and heritage preservation. Her work with the snake charmers was featured in media.[11]

She was hired in 2005 to be an environmental journalist by Rajdeep Sardesai. For CNN-IBN she is the Environment Editor, she has done undercover investigations, news reports. Her reportage has influenced policy and led to the stoppage of many illegal projects coming up on wetlands and forests

Notable works of journalism

In 2006, she directed Last Dance of the Sarus. This was an award-winning investigative news piece about the drainage of wetlands in eastern India that are the habitat of almost a third of the world's sarus cranes. The drainage project was for the proposed development of an airport.[12] [13] [14]

Bahar recently released her book, Green Wars. The book draws on Dutt's experience as a conservationist to look at how the tension between a modernising economy and saving the planet can be resolved.[15]

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Meet Bahar Dutt . Sanctuary Asia . February 2009 . 18 June 2013 . 4 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032402/http://www.sanctuaryasia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1456:meet-bahar-.. . dead .
  2. https://www.hindustantimes.com/more-lifestyle/we-bought-a-farm-the-story-of-one-delhi-couple-s-adventures-with-the-simple-life/story-wRjWF4mEVjD8YlYXW6siPO.html We bought a farm: The story of one Delhi couple's adventures with the simple life
  3. First #FathersDay without my dad first birthday without my father. #COVID19 has scarred so many of us in so many ways . bahardutt . 1406483550547812354 . 2022-04-15 . en.
  4. Web site: Bahar Dutt's Blog - Beasts in my Belfry: IBNlive.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20090129152014/http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/author/258/bahardutt.html . dead . 29 January 2009 . Ibnlive.in.com . 2 May 2013.
  5. News: Prabha Dutt fellowship goes to Express journalist . Express India . 30 November 2007 . 18 June 2013 . https://archive.today/20130620021630/http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/latest-news/Prabha-Dutt-fellowship-goes-to-Express-journalist/245028/ . dead . 20 June 2013 .
  6. Web site: Bahar Dutt and CNN-IBN . 9 May 2019 . 9 May 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190509130052/https://www.sanctuaryasia.com/people/earth-heroes/9356-bahar-dutt-and-cnn-ibn.html . dead .
  7. Web site: Pragyan 16 - Bahar Dutt .
  8. News: Proyashi . Barua . In the wild . 30 November 2009 . 18 June 2013 . https://archive.today/20130620023513/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-11-30/education/28112170_1_snake-charmers-conservation-drive-wildlife. dead. . 20 June 2013.
  9. News: A Different Charm: Bahar Dutt comes to rescue of Delhi snake charmers . India Today. 1 January 2007 . 18 June 2013 .
  10. News: Charm offensive . Nature . 18 June 2013 .
  11. Web site: Indian snake-charmers . Australian Broadcasting Corp. . Science Show . 29 August 2009 . 18 June 2013 .
  12. News: TV 18 shines at the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards 2006 . Indian Television . 17 July 2007 . 18 June 2013 .
  13. News: India bags two Pandas at Bristol wildlife film fest . The Indian Express. 19 October 2006 . 18 June 2013 .
  14. News: Narayani . Ganesh . Green oscars: 2 Indian films win top prizes . 20 October 2006 . 18 June 2013 . https://archive.today/20130411034410/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2006-10-20/rest-of-world/27808074_1_sarus-indian-entries-film. dead. . 11 April 2013.
  15. Web site: HarperCollins Publishers India Ltd . 6 June 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140607002724/http://harpercollins.co.in/BookDetail.asp?Book_Code=4682 . 7 June 2014 . dead.
  16. News: Assam youth bags Forum of Environment Journalist award . The Hindu. 18 September 2007 . 18 June 2013 . https://archive.today/20130620021558/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200709181040.htm . dead . 20 June 2013 .
  17. News: Bahar Dutt conferred with RBS Wildlife Awards . ibnlive . 31 January 2009 . 18 June 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140814190017/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bahar-dutt-conferred-with-rbs-wildlife-awards/84115-3.html. dead. 14 August 2014.
  18. News: Young achievers get this year's Sanskriti Awards . Hindustan Times. 20 November 2009 . 18 June 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131023095804/http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/newdelhi/young-achievers-get-this-year-s-sanskriti-awards/article1-478573.aspx . 23 October 2013.

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