Bahar Dutt

Bahar Dutt (born 20 June 1975) is an Indian television journalist and environmental editor and columnist for CNN-IBN.

Early life Bahar Dutt is the daughter of SP Dutt and Prabha Dutt, who was among India's first female journalists and influenced Bahar's career path.

Bahar is the only Indian environmental journalist to have won Green Oscar for her reporting on environment issues in India.

Dutt is a wildlife conservationist by training.

Career Before turning to journalism, Dutt worked on her own conservation projects. She spent seven years with the Bahelias, or snake charmers, across Haryana and Rajasthan in northern India. Dutt worked with them to combine their knowledge of snakes and musical abilities into public performances and education without the use of snakes.

She was hired in 2005 to be an environmental journalist by Rajdeep Sardesai.

Bahar recently released her book, Green Wars. The book draws on Dutt's experience as a conservationist to look at how the tension between a modernising economy and saving the planet can be resolved.

Awards 2006 Ramnath Goenka Award for excellence in environmental reporting for Last Dance of the Sarus 2009 Sanctuary-RBS Wildlife Awards. Dutt was awarded the Wings award for raising the stature of environmental journalism. 2009 Sanskriti award