I met her and after a few words of advice from me, she was told to proceed to an underground room and rest for the night. We soon discovered that the young lady was giving a live commentary on the attack on Tiger Hill sitting right next to brigade traffic check post in Drass. On finishing, I looked at Col SVE David, Deputy Cdr of 56 Mtn Bde, who was also present, and asked him to find out if Barkha Dutt of NDTV, then Star Plus/News Channel, was anywhere in the vicinity or amongst the media witnessing the artillery fire on Tiger Hill. When the call got connected, all in the ops room could make out that something serious was being discussed between us.
The Corps Cdr had wanted to speak to me urgently. At Tiger Hill it was snowing.Īt about 2120 hours, the exchange operator gave a ring in the ops room asking for me. It has started raining lightly by the time I reached the ops room of HQ 192 Mtn Bde, and as the night progressed, the rain fell heavily and all our thoughts were for the men going in for the attack. The sight of the artillery rounds falling on the objective made an awesome scene which remains etched in my memory till date. Here is the relevant part from the book (emphasis added):
#Barkha dutt book tv#
A paragraph from this book is revealing, and the same was pointed out by a Twitter user Nikhil Sharma to Barkha Dutt, to support his claim that Barkha’s TV journalism has been O sure.Will ask him if I get the chance why he did so when his subordinate publicly in his book mentions this. This source is a book titled “ Kargil: Turning the Tide” written by Lt Gen Mohinder Puri. However, there is another source, which can’t be just rejected by Barkha as made up claims by “trolls”, which shows that Barkha Dut’s reporting during the Kargil war irresponsible at least on one occasion. One has to double check the citations (sources) when reading up a Wikipedia entry. Wikipedia can’t be treated as a primary source, though it is a wonderful repository of secondary sources. Kunte referred to this accusation based on a Wikipedia entry, which honestly was unfair to Barkha. However, Barkha Dutt insists that the blog was defamatory in nature, especially because it contained a reference to the Kargil war, where Barkha is accused to have caused casualties on the Indian side as she gave away military locations in her broadcast.
The blog post basically argued that the live telecast and live commentary by the media and the journalists, especially by Barkha Dutt, during the counter terror operations was completely irresponsible as it only seemed to help the terrorists and their handlers.Īround 3.5 years after Kunte was bullied into tendering an apology, the Supreme Court of India made similar scathing comments about media’s role and reporting during the Mumbai terror attacks. The apology and the original blog post content are available at this page released by the WikiLeaks. Subsequently, Kunte received a legal notice, and he proceeded to delete the blog post and issue an apology to Barkha Dutt and NDTV. In his post, Kunte criticised the media, especially controversial journalist Barkha Dutt, who was then with NDTV. “Shoddy Journalism” was the title of a blog post written by a blogger named Chyetanya Kunte during the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008. And when you talk about “shoddy journalism”, you think of Barkha Dutt. The unfortunate incident has once again thrown up the issue of shoddy journalism vs safety of security forces for debate. An army jawan has died after a journalist decided to conduct a “ sting operation” that allegedly compromised his identity.
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