India's Changing Media Landscape

Saluja Global Fellows Program
Barkha Dutt lecture

Fall 2022 CASI Inaugural Saluja Global Fellow Lecture

Barkha Dutt
Journalist; Founding-Editor, Mojo Story
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Penn Van Pelt Library

About the inaugural SALUJA GLOBAL FELLOWS PROGRAM

The new Saluja Global Fellows Program has been made possible by the generous gift from Vishal Saluja ENG’89 W’89. CASI is excited to launch the program during the 2022–2023 academic year, coinciding with the Center’s 30th Anniversary. This new program enables CASI to invite eminent leaders and rising experts on contemporary India preferably from the fields of media, culture, law, and contemporary history to be in residence for one to two weeks at CASI.

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Barkha Dutt

Barkha Dutt

Barkha Dutt, one of India’s best-known journalists, is the Founding-Editor of Mojo Story, a multi-media digital platform. With 25 years of reporting experience, she has been the recipient of more than 50 national and international awards. Dutt is also a columnist with The Washington Post. Most recently, she won global acclaim for her ground reportage of the COVID-19 pandemic across India. A Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute at Oxford University and an Asia Society Fellow, Barkha Dutt is the author of two books: To Hell & Back, Humans of Covid and This Unquiet Land: Stories from India’s Fault Lines. Dutt studied at St. Stephens College, Delhi University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

The Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series is an endowed public program of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI). Launched in the 2007-08 academic year, and made possible through the generous support of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, the series brings renowned India specialists to the Penn community and serves as a critical forum for analyzing and understanding the complex economic, political, social, and cultural changes that the world’s largest democracy is experiencing, as well as the challenges that lie ahead.
The Saluja Global Fellows Program has been made possible by the generous gift from Vishal Saluja ENG’89 W’89. CASI was excited to launch the program during the 2022–23 academic year, coinciding with the Center’s 30th Anniversary. This new program enables CASI to invite eminent leaders and rising experts on contemporary India preferably from the fields of media, culture, law, and contemporary history to be in residence for one to two weeks at CASI.