English Tv Show We The People - Cast & Crew

The 12th President of India, Pratibha Patil, is an Indian politician who is the first and only woman president of the country. Born to Narayan Rao Patil, a government prosecutor, and Gangabai on 19th December 1934, Pratibha Patil grew up in Nadgaon village in Jalgaon, Maharashtra. She is the only girl child among her five other siblings. Having lost her mother early in life, Pratibha Patil was brought up in the care of her aunt. She completed her schooling at R.R. Vidyalaya in Jalgaon, and as per the wish of her mother, she pursued double graduation in Political Science and Economics. She received her Master’s degree from Moolji Jeetha College. Besides academics, Pratibha Patil also shined bright in sports by winning many medals in Table Tennis. After venturing into politics, she decided to pursue Law from Government Law College, Bombay.

A television journalist, Barkha Dutt works as a consulting editor in NDTV. She was born on 18 December 1971 in New Delhi. Her father, S. P. Dutt is an official in Air India, and her mother Prabha Dutt was a journalist working for the Hindustan Times. Barkha has a younger sister Bahar Dutt, who is also a journalist working for CNN IBN. With a Bachelor's degree in English literature, Barkha graduated from St. Stephen’s College in New Delhi. She later went on to finish her Master’s degree from the Jamia Millia Islamia Mass Communication Research Center in Mass Communications. She received another Master’s Degree in Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in New York.