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After Decades, Barkha Dutt Talks About Being Sexually Abused

Journalist Barkha Dutt opens up about what it’s like to be sexually abused as a child in her upcoming book. 

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After all these years, senior TV journalist Barkha Dutt has spoken for the first time about being sexually abused as a child. In her upcoming book This Unquiet Land - Stories from India’s Fault Lines, Dutt opens up about her perpetrator, a distant older relative, and that she wasn’t even ten years old when it first happened.

NDTV published some powerful excerpts from the book which are being reproduced here as is.

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Journalist Barkha Dutt opens up about what it’s like to be sexually abused as a child in her upcoming book. 
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Journalist Barkha Dutt opens up about what it’s like to be sexually abused as a child in her upcoming book. 
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Barkha talks about her fears as a child after being abused and how she was initially afraid of relationships, even after getting into college. 

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Journalist Barkha Dutt opens up about what it’s like to be sexually abused as a child in her upcoming book. 
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She consulted her teachers and even considered legal action but everyone explained to her, as nicely as they could she says, that the process would only take too long and that she must move on. 

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Here’s the full excerpt published by NDTV.

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