Varsha Singh
Passionate about social issues, especially children and women’s rights, rising inequity and human rights, Varsha Singh, a Post-Graduate in English (Hons) from Calcutta University and Mass Communications from St Xavier’s Calcutta, gravitated naturally to journalism in 2013. Varsha has made her passions the subject matter of her work and she has been writing regularly about these issues, besides business, tourism, culture and politics. Of late, Varsha has been pursuing another passion, multimedia journalism making videos reports on social issues and current affairs, looking at them with a different lens. Outside of her work, Varsha is equally passionate about cinema, music, travel and tea. Indeed, she is the inhouse film and music encyclopedia and a full-time chai-o-holic.
Interview with Rajneesh Kumar, General Manager, Courtyard by Marriott Aravali Resort
July 23, 2022
Positioning itself as a unique leisure hotel, set in lush-green surroundings of the Aravalli hills, about 30 km from New Delhi, Courtyard by Marriott is the latest property of the global group in north India. General Manager Rajneesh Kumar tells MIG TV that he is counting on the ...
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Interview with K Mehboob Ali Khan, secretary, Ladakh Tourism
June 25, 2022
For over two years, since international travel was banned, the union territory of Ladakh had turned its focus on domestic tourists. Now, as foreign tourists begin to trickle back in, Ladakh is once again focusing on its key market — Europe. In an interview with Media India ...
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Interview with G N Itoo Director, Kashmir Tourism
April 1, 2022
With resumption of regular international flights to India, various states in India have begun targetting foreign tourists after a long break of two years. Along with the old favourites like Kerala, Rajasthan or Karnataka, Kashmir is also positioning itself as a prime destination ...
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India to face brunt of climate change, warns IPCC report
March 1, 2022
Yet another report on climate change and global warming has warned that world is firmly on its way to a catastrophic situation within the next three decades in absence of any serious action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to mitigate the impact of climate crisis on the most v...
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Delhi’s wrestlers aspire for Paris Olympics
January 5, 2022
Wrestling or Kushti as it is known in India is one of the oldest traditional sports in the country. Medal-winning performances by some Indian wrestlers in World Championships and the Olympic Games have spurred many others to set their sights high and are working towards replicati...
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Farmers Protest: A year of struggles, losses and wins
December 25, 2021
On a wintry Saturday afternoon, as the Sun begins its descent on the horizon, the tension that had been ever-present at the Singhu Border, the site of farmers’ protest in New Delhi for over a year, seems to have disappeared. Instead, there is an air of relaxed humour and banter...
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Indian government turns blind eye to rising inequality
December 21, 2021
The World Inequality Report 2022 released last month by the World Inequality Lab portrays a dismal picture of the world as inequality has continued to rise stridently across most parts of the world, with an increasing share of global wealth being captured by fewer people every ye...
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Tears and cheers as farmers bid farewell
December 18, 2021
Mixed emotions dominate the mood at various sites on Delhi’s borders where thousands of farmers and their supporters have protested for almost 13 months. The happiness and cheer is clearly all around as farmers begin packing up to go back home at long last after their union...
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Pushkar Mela 2021 misses its soul
December 7, 2021
Held every year in the month of November, the Pushkar Mela had become synonymous with Rajasthan, at least for thousands of foreign tourists who used to plan their trips to India to coincide with the fair that had become ubiquitous to Rajasthan. Last year, the fair was cancelled d...
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Pushkar Fair 2021: A carnival of cattle
November 22, 2021
India’s biggest fair for trading camels and other animals finally took place at Pushkar, about 300 km southwest of Jaipur, after a halt of two years. Though traditionally, Pushkar has more foreign tourists than animals and Indian tourists combined, however, this year the Pushka...
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Unique cycle rally to rebuild bridges with Bangladesh
November 1, 2021
As Bangladesh celebrates the 50th anniversary of its independence, and its unique friendship with India, which helped the country obtain the independence, it would have been normal to expect a series of news reports about the celebrations marking the Indo-Bangladesh friendship an...
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Fervour & fun returns with Durga Puja in Kolkata
October 15, 2021
For decades, indeed centuries, Durga Puja has dominated the calendar of a Bengali household, with vacations, family reunions and a myriad of social interactions lined up before and during these 10 days. Homes are renovated, gifts exchanged, and even more sweets made and ate than ...
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