Dutt is often described as a pioneer of journalism in India, but she points to her mother, Prabha Dutt, a journalist with the Hindustan Times as her mentor and inspiration. She said that young women ...

We were bereft. As daughters. And as citizens. Before my father died, we always valorised our mother, Prabha Dutt, who we lost when I was 13 years old to a brain haemorrhage. As India's first ...