VARSHA BANSAL
Independent Journalist
A bit about me
Hello. I am an independent journalist based in Bangalore, India.
Our lives have moved online, and I am curious about how technology impacts people in expected and unexpected ways. My stories are usually at the intersection of technology and people, culture, human rights and business.
I am a regular contributor with WIRED magazine. Apart from that my work has appeared in TIME, Slate, MIT Technology Review, Al Jazeera, Caravan, Vogue Business, Rest of World and Coda Story. Previously I worked with Economic Times and Mint.
My reporting on the Indian government's imposition of technology on women healthcare workers was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
I hold a Master's degree in Journalism from Georgetown University. Lived in Washington, D.C. for three years and worked at Kiplinger magazine.
Recently published
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Local shopowners fighting back tech giants through ONDC — TIME
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India's new super app has a privacy problem — WIRED
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How 10 min grocery delivery is pressurising delivery workers — Al Jazeera
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How healthcare workers in India fought a surveillance regime and won — Coda Story
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The struggle to bring an endangered language into Unicode — Rest of World
other work
2021
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How missed calls became Covid-19 lifeline in rural India — Slate
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Robo-chefs making their way into Indian cloud kitchens — Rest of World
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WhatsApp fight with India has global implications — WIRED
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India's vaccine booking system CoWin gives troubles — WIRED UK
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Covid exacerbated the issue of child marriage in India — Caravan
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The challenges of counting Covid-19 deaths in India — Slate
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How Indians are turning to Twitter for Covid-19 aid — MIT Technology Review
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Why Stripe invested in Pakistan's startup Safepay — Rest of World
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India bets a glitchy software to vaccinate 300 million people — MIT Technology Review
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How one-tap digital loan apps pushed Indians to take their own lives — WIRED UK
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India's biometric system Aadhaar proves exclusionary to pregnant women in Indian — Coda Story
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A local police unit in India's fight to curb the spread of child sexual abuse content online — Rest of World
2020
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Indian techies race to build the next TikTok after the ban — Rest of World
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Hyderabad wants to keep an eye on all its citizens — Mint
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How Hyderabad in India transformed from being a tech hub to a city with excessive surveillance — Coda Story
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Kashmiri entrepreneurs managed with slow internet for over a year — The Juggernaut
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How Indian creators became collateral damage with a TikTok ban — WIRED UK
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Zoom weddings become the norm India during Covid-19 — Rest of World
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One country, two internets — Rest of World
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How video apps became a megaphone for Indian society — Rest of World
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