Slamming her for theatrics, one Twitter user wrote, “You are such a drama when you can easily get a foldable laptop table for as little as 600 rs anywhere …” The repetitive use of wooden boxes as support for her laptop, attempts to fearmonger the public about the Coronavirus crisis through stories on deaths/ crematoriums and morgues and her ‘self-obsession’ did not miss the public eye. Netizens call out Barkha Dutt on social media While the situation on ground is indeed grim, people on social media have been calling out the dramatics by journalists who could have perhaps focused on the news instead of their brand building.
On the pavement outside Ghatkopar cremation ground where a man says to me: “First no room at hospital, now no room at the Shamshan Ghat.” Screengrab of the tweet by Barkha Dutt In her tweet, she said, “When you’re reporting a crisis you learn where you pause is where your ‘studio’ is. Her laptop was carefully placed over a wooden box while she sat on the ground. And yet again, she was at the epicentre of the story. Screengrab of the tweetĪ day prior to this, the Lutyens’ journalist had shared another story from Ghatkopar cremation ground. “Reporting from the Ramnath Ghela cremation site in Surat where the fire bridges in the iron furnaces have melted from too many cremations and clouds of smoke rise up above the ground to mark the imprint of the SecondWave,” she added. Far from making the story the epicentre, she tweeted her picture and claimed that the iron furnaces used for cremation have melted due to overuse. In another tweet on Saturday (April 17), Barkha Dutt shared her picture from the site of Ramnath Ghela cremation centre in Surat. No goodbye hug, no touch, just- “He’s mine” from afar.” Screengrab of the tweet by Barkha Dutt Barkha Dutt tweeted, “Among toughest moments I’ve reported ever, waiting with families at mortuary in Civil Hospital, Surat, as they’re instructed to identify bodies wheeled up a ramp, to be taken away then for COVID protocol funerals. On Sunday (April 18), she had shared images of family members of Coronavirus patients, who had died at the Civil Hospital in Surat. From a cremation ground in Surat, an overturned plastic bucket & a cardboard box is my ‘studio’.” Screengrab of the tweet by Barkha Dutt
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While posting such shocking visuals, Barkha Dutt wrote, “In these apocalyptic times, we learn how to survive, innovate & adapt so we can still report in the toughest situations. Wooden logs, used for cremation, could also be seen in the background of the image.
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It is not yet clear why Barkha, who could quite possibly afford portable desks, has resorted to upturned tin cans as desks. In what appears like bid to restore her dwindling reputation in journalistic circles and among her viewers, she has decided to up her ‘ground reporting’ in such challenging times.įrom camping outside civil hospitals to crematoriums, Barkha has been sharing her pictures where she sits on an upturned tin can and puts her laptop on upturned plastic dustbins to bring us ground report. Amidst the rising cases of Coronavirus in the country, Lutyens’ journalist Barkha Dutt has hit the streets.
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