Starmark organized a book signing session with Barkha Dutt, an award-winning journalist, and author. She signed copies of her newest book, To Hell And Back.

When the lockdown was announced in March 2020, renowned journalist Barkha Dutt embarked on an extraordinary series of road trips to document the pandemic’s human story, which she continues to do even now as we grapple with the virus’s latest incarnation. Her reporting, which took her from Delhi to Kerala on trucks and trains, to hospitals and slums, villages and cities, is the most in-depth and comprehensive account of how the crisis has affected India throughout the three waves.

She tells the story of India’s pandemic through the eyes of the people she interviewed—migrant workers and politicians, businessmen and bureaucrats, doctors and nurses, factory workers and farmers, teachers and students, husbands and wives, parents and children—in this book. And it is through these accounts that she paints a startling picture of not only our plague years, but also the nature of our country, with its deep-seated inequalities based on class, caste, and gender.

To Hell and Back is an outstanding work by one of the foremost journalists, working at the pinnacle of her powers. It is moving, gripping, and vivid.

The book has been published by Juggernaut.

The book is sold in all Starmark outlets.

Priyanka Dutta