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.
Air pollution needs smart responses, not gimmicks
September 3, 2021
On September 1, the Energy Policy Institute of the University of Chicago published a study saying that up to 40 pc of Indians, or close to 550 million people, could see their life expectancy drop by as many as nine years due to air pollution levels. The study said that large part...
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9 months into protest, farmers remain committed to cause
August 26, 2021
On November 26, 2020, when the first tractor, a green Massey Fergusson driven by Jalandhar-based farmer Gurdeep Singh, leading thousands of other tractors and farm vehicles from various states in north India, breached multiple police barricades and finally arrived at its destinat...
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Treat us like humans, Afghan refugees tell UNHCR India
August 25, 2021
Carrying placards like “We want Answers” and “We Want Justice” and shouting slogans against UNHCR, hundreds of Afghan refugees, including several women and children, have begun an indefinite protest outside the office of the United Nations High Commi...
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Taliban takeover worries Afghan refugees in India
August 20, 2021
Streets in both, Lajpat Nagar as well as adjoining Bhogal area, bear tell-tale signs of a sizeable Afghani community. There are numerous hair saloons or beauty parlours, travel agents, real estate brokers, pharmacies and restaurants catering almost exclusively ...
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Koli Taal: Mystery of Missing Rooster
August 6, 2021
Abhilash Shetty, a young filmmaker from Karnataka, gains international recognition with his debut project — a Kannada feature film, Koli Taal that is making news on international film festival circuits. The film, set in a real-life rural background of the village where Shet...
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Covid-19 leaves trail of orphaned children & helpless widows
July 28, 2021
A recent report by British medical journal, The Lancet, said that the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in an estimated 1.5 million children facing the loss of a parent or a caregiver, either a grandparent or other older relative in their home, including over a million who lost one ...
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Danish Siddiqui, the man who dared to capture reality
July 16, 2021
A roof-top shot of the burning pyres during a mass cremation of victims who perished in the catastrophic second wave of Covid-19, at the Seemapuri crematorium or the image of a Muslim man with his head in his knees in an attempt to protect himself during the Delhi riots in Februa...
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Workers at rough end of lockdowns: Survey
July 4, 2021
A recent report by Stranded Workers Action Network (SWAN) says that the second wave has hit the country’s informal sector workers much harder than the last year, even though nationwide lockdown had not been imposed, unlike in 2020. “Images of hungry and tired migrant workers ...
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National Doctors’ Day 2021: We are not Gods, say doctors
July 1, 2021
Violence against doctors and other healthcare personnel has grown alarmingly since the Covid-19 pandemic hit India as patients’ families or friends often resorted to physically assaulting these professionals on suspicion that their relative was not given proper care. Accord...
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Government wants to abolish poor instead of poverty, say residents of Khori village
June 25, 2021
On June 25, 2015, the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Urban (PMAY-U), a flagship mission of Government of India, was launched by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA). Exactly years later, on June 25, 2021, the residents of Khori gaon, a village on the sout...
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SC order puts 10,000 families in Faridabad at risk
June 21, 2021
Colin Gonsalves, head of HRLN, a law firm that fights for right to housing for the poor, expressed disappointment over the latest order of Supreme Court which refused to grant any relief to the over 10,000 families that have lived for decades in Khori village near Surajkund in Fa...
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World Refugee Day 2021: Rohingyas’ struggle for survival in India
June 20, 2021
In 2005, 10-year-old Ali Johar, along with his parents, had to flee from their village in Rakhine, a Muslim-majority state on the western coast of Myanmar, as Buddhist hardliners, backed by the Myanmar Army, created havoc across the entire province. The Johars found ...
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