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I& #39;ve never seen a person as desperate for white validation as Barkha Dutt. I don& #39;t believe she did the Kargil or 26/11 info leaks or the crematorium-hopping because it gave her some perverse joy. I believe she did it to receive a pat on the back from the Western media
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I don& #39;t know if she& #39;s been raised with the idea that the white person& #39;s opinion is the only one that matters, or if it& #39;s something she& #39;s learnt by watching her Western counterparts collect accolades for reporting on poverty porn and other general misery.
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Either way, when called out by people revulsed by the mental image of Ms. Dutt standing outside a crematorium, craning her neck trying to get a glimpse of the burning bodies, instead of admitting an error in judgement and backing off...
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...she doubles down and accuses them of trying to "sanitize the scale of the horror" Again, this insensitive behaviour is not displayed out a lack of empathy. It stems from the conviction that this is what those in the West, who will be judging her work, would expect of her.
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Ultimately, one can only feel sorry for someone who needs to constantly look for new lows of reportage to stoop to, just so that they can sleep better knowing they& #39;ve earned the approval of their white masters.
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