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.
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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World Day Against Child Labour: Pandemic paralyses battle to end child labour
June 12, 2021
Thirteen-year-old Muskaan is a very shy and soft-spoken girl. So soft-spoken that one would be tempted incessantly to ask her to repeat herself. But Muskaan, who lives with her parents and 5 other siblings in a slum near Malviya Nagar in New Delhi, is emphatic that chil...
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Interview with Dr.Samir Parikh, Fortis Healthcare
May 31, 2021
The pandemic has led to a spike in number of people seeking assistance in terms of mental health. Several helplines that have been set up to provide counselling have been flooded with calls. Dr Samir Parikh, Consultant Psychiatrist at Fortis Healthcare says mental health problems...
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First hand account of post Covid-19 complications
May 27, 2021
Being infected even once by Covid-19 can be a terrible experience for most people who may take months to fully recover. However, there have been a few cases of the virus hitting the same person twice within a few months. Henna K Seethi, a student at Jamia Millia Islamia in New De...
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Snehalaya dedicates hospital to Covid-19 patients
May 25, 2021
The rocky terrain hides it very well. As you drive on a dust-path that is used as a road, you are unlikely to spot it at all until it appears all of a sudden, as the path curves around the last bend and it dips suddenly. In the normal times, Anam Prem was a rare […]
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Mental Health Awareness Month: Overcoming anxiety with GoodLives
May 21, 2021
Months of lockdowns following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic have rapidly soured from being prolonged paid holidays to especially stressful and challenging period for millions around the world, including here in India. To lend a helping hand to people suffering from stress...
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