Bahar Dutt (born 20 June 1975)[3] is an Indian television journalist and environmental editor and columnist for CNN-IBN.
[5] Bahar is the only Indian environmental journalist to have won Green Oscar for her reporting on environment issues in India.
Her reportage has influenced policy and led to the stoppage of many illegal projects coming up on wetlands and forests In 2006, she directed Last Dance of the Sarus.
This was an award-winning investigative news piece about the drainage of wetlands in eastern India that are the habitat of almost a third of the world's sarus cranes.
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.