Our lives have moved online, and I am curious about how technology impacts people in expected and unexpected ways.

I am a tech reporter from India with a decade of experience writing about how technology impacts our lives. I regularly write for WIRED, TIME, Slate, MIT Technology Review, Al Jazeera, Rest of World and Coda Story. Previously I worked with top Indian business dailies Economic Times and Mint.

Most recently I was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow 2024-25 at Columbia University in New York. In 2024, I won the Freelance Journalist of the Year Award by One World Media and Outstanding Business Reporting award by South Asian Journalists Association. In 2023, I was longlisted for International Journalist of the Year Award by One World Media for my series of stories on how technology is impacting Indian gig workers. In 2022, I was an inaugural AI Accountability Fellow with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

I was also a guest faculty at Asian College of Journalism in India for the Business Feature writing course.

To get in touch, you can email me at varshabansal[dot]work[at]gmail.com