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She rose to become the first woman chief reporter of the Hindustan Times, but the badge came with an initial rejection- she was told that the paper did not hire women in mainstream reporting roles. Growing up as a journalist’s daughter-at a time when women in the media were expected to write about flower shows and fashion-I watched my mother, Prabha Dutt, wrestle every single day of her working life with gender-driven preconceptions.Įven getting hired had been difficult. Around the dining table, politics was a staple diet, right up there with the obligatory portions of yucky daily greens. At the age of five, my parents would make me identify little-known world leaders on the covers of Time magazine. Government ordered an investigation by Intelligence Bureau and Central Board of Direct Taxes into the leakage of tapes.This extract from This Unquiet Land by Barkha Dutt has been published with permission from Aleph Book Company. On Ratan Tata moved Supreme Court to stop the publication of tapes of his conversations with Nira Radia. What is the punishment for breach of privacy? Right to privacy is part of Right to life and liberty. Do people in Income Tax Department have nothing better to do than record private conversations, listen to them and distribute them? They have nothing to do with appointment of ministers, budget proposals and so on. It is said 5,831 conversations were recorded, most of them private. Who leaked the tapes? It is possible that many sections of media knew about the tapes and kept quiet. Why is Nira Radia questioned by Enforcement Directorate? What is her crime? Why were the tapes handed over to CBI and Enforcement Directorate? If there was no evidence of tax evasion why tapping did not stop?

What was the purpose? Who authorised tapping? Income Tax Department tapped Nira Radia conversations. Nira Radia tapes can become significant like Watergate tapes which forced Richard Nixon out. He said the voice of the person who spoke to Nira Radia was of N. The day he was to speak he was told Venkaiah Naidu will speak. He said he was to talk on budget proposals as BJP’s lead speaker and had prepared for a week. In a party meeting he had spoken against that proposal. Arun Shourie confirmed a conversation about him. Arun Shourie would have spoken against a proposal that favoured Mukesh Ambani. In one conversation someone tells Nira Radia he has arranged Arun Shourie to be replaced by Venkaiah Naidu to speak on budget proposals. Vir Sanghvi had a question mark over him when a taped conversation published in Hindustan Times was said to be fake. That is good but what about continued focus on corruption in Commonwealth Games?īarkha Dutt’s reputation is in tatters. On Nidhi Razdan said we will continue to focus on Yeddyurappa. When any channel or newspaper is selective in exposing corruption it becomes partisan. If he lobbied for a corrupt minister to be in the cabinet and that becomes public knowledge that does not make India a banana republic. Some weeks back Ratan Tata made a statement that he had refused to pay 15 crore rupees as bribe to get his airline cleared. When industrialists lobby for someone to be minister and succeed that leaves a question mark on the behaviour of prime minister. Journalists usually do not report misdeeds of their own.

NIRA RADIA BARKHA DUTT TV

The TV news channels I watch had not reported about the content of tapes. Ram said BBC and Financial Times would have fired journalists for such misconduct. Outlook and Open had published them.ĭuring discussion the role of Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi was questioned. Telephonic conversations of Nira Radia, a lobbyist, with various journalists, industrialists and others had become public. The discussion was about Nira Radia tapes. I heard the names of Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi. I switched channels and came across CNN-IBN. So I switched to NDTV 24×7 hoping to see Left, Right and Centre. I switched to Star World to watch Lie to me. I did not understand what he meant.Īt 10.00 p.m. Shekhar Gupta interviews Ratan Tata who repeatedly uses the phrase banana republic. on NDTV 24×7 there was a clip of Walk the Talk. I did not know who were the journalists or lobbyists.

The article had a sentence “Tapes of conversations between journalists and various lobbyists have been put online and some publications have carried stories on these conversations.” On I read “Beware the single brush” by Pratap Bhanu Mehta in The Indian Express.

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