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Soumyadipta Banerjee, who has previously worked with The Times of India, Web18 (CNN-IBN group), DNA, and The Telegraph, recently shared the video with scathing observations. But, many social media users have begun to share the content of that interview to attack Barkha. Kareena had interviewed Barkha in 2020, not long after the veteran journalist had travelled across India by road to capture the misery caused by the prolonged period of a nationwide lockdown. The veteran journalist had gone on to add, “I think what Arnab has done masquerading as journalism has brought enormous shame and embarrassment to all of us in the profession. It is about bringing journalism down to a level where it is unrecognisable.” Goswami has been doing has brought enormous shame to the journalism that I believe in…. Replying to Kareena’s question, Barkha had said, “I think what Mr. Through the stories she narrates, she makes it clear what went wrong and who are to blame.Kareena had asked Barkha why journalists were too harsh on celebrities. “The pandemic made memory a beast,” writes Barkha. Everybody’s grief is personal but the nation was going through a collective trauma. Countless others were suffering like her. Her helplessness in not being able to save her father made her the story she had been reporting.

In April, 2021, Barkha received a phone call she always dreaded - her father, S.P. She writes about her meetings with the pregnant Mann Kumari who walked 150 km from Haryana to Madhya Pradesh with her children and husband and gave birth to her baby by the side of a tarred road with the help of other women when no hospital, doctor or shelter was in sight on the highway the 70-year-old Leelawati who was forced to beg at Bandra station because she was thrown out by her son whom she had nursed back to health in Mumbai Jyoti, only 15 years old, who cycled her father 1,200 km from Delhi to Darbhanga. Stark and lucid in her writing, Barkha tells us about the Hindu gravedigger at a Muslim burial ground a Muslim volunteer performing the last rites for Hindus women in a housing society in Surat who cooked extra meals to feed migrant workers a Mumbai nurse who found it easier to battle terrorists than COVID children who watched their mother die on the cold floor of a hospital when they were unable to get a bed for her young resident doctors on long shifts and their mental meltdown about gurdwaras that ran oxygen langars when hospitals closed their doors. The widespread despondency and anger took Barkha on a journey of 30,000 km across 14 States to connect with ordinary citizens touched by COVID and also record the acts of compassion when there was paranoia all around.

The virus was playing out on people’s fragility. The police said he had had a heart attack.

“Come and get me, if you can” - his last words haunt her because by the time the family could get permission to travel during curfew, he had given up on life. When he was 80 km short of reaching home, he called his sister complaining about uneasiness. Mandal’s was one of the many lockdown deaths that made the ensuing days traumatic.įearing that hunger would kill him before the virus did, Ranveer, a food delivery agent in Delhi, started walking home 310 km away in Morena district, Madhya Pradesh, on March 27, 2020. That was a sign of the spectre of starvation but the official closure report said his suicide was triggered by mental health problems. The previous day he had pawned his mobile phone and given his wife ₹2,000 to buy and stock food and grocery for their four children. In April 2020, the 30-year-old painter used his wife’s dupatta to take his life. The humanitarian crisis among the most-marginalised sections overshadowed the medical emergency when she met Mukesh Mandal’s family living cheek-by-jowl at a migrant workers’ colony on the outskirts of Delhi.