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It's Lindsay Smith Rogers.

Recently, I sat down with renowned journalist Barkadette in our studio

for an expansive conversation about her work being a voice for those on the margins of society.

Dutt has been described as the Indian Anderson Cooper, and she spent her career reporting from

conflict zones and talking about gender equity and violence against women.

In the last few years, she expanded her beat and traveled around India during COVID,

talking with people about their pandemic experiences.

You can find a link in the show notes to the YouTube video of our conversation.

Let's listen.

Barkadud is one of India's best-known broadcast journalists and authors.

She's the founder and editor of Mojo Story, a digital platform, a columnist with the Washington Post and the Hindustan Times.

You've been nominated for an Emmy.

You've been recognized by the World Economic Forum, and you've been honored with the Padmarshi, India's fourth highest civilian honor.

She's also the author of two books to Hellen Back, Humans of COVID, and This Unquiet Land,

Stories from India's Fault Lines.

Thank you so much for being on public health on call.

And just before we started recording, I was like, there are so many things that we could talk about here because your career is just so expansive and you have done so much, but we were able to find a

through line. So what we're going to do is talk about your work. You are a war correspondent,

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