Durga Sengupta

Bangalore

Journalist and Editor at Freelance

Journalist, freelance fact-checker, editor | Previously, South Asia Editor @restofworld, ex-deskie @thekenweb | Expect personal views, cat content, and memes

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Articles

Ka Kay Lum

Aug 31, 2024 | the-ken.com | Ka Kay Lum |Nadine Freischlad |Durga Sengupta

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India’s women gig workers fight for a better future

Jul 29, 2024 | restofworld.org | Durga Sengupta |Itika Sharma Punit

A year after women staged mass protests against the job conditions at India’s popular home services app, Urban Company, female gig workers face a tough present and a highly uncertain future.
EV Revolution

Mar 20, 2024 | restofworld.org | Michelle Anindya |Rafiq Malik |Durga Sengupta |Viola Zhou

Battery-pack builders chase maximum range, despite safety risks.
This mobility firm COO says EV bikes are not fit to ferry passengers

Feb 20, 2024 | restofworld.org | Durga Sengupta |Rafiq Malik

When Karachi-based Bykea launched in 2016, the bike-taxi model was a whole new concept for Pakistan. Today, the company has 60,000 drivers, with more than 1.7 million monthly active users on its app. Affordability has played a critical role in popularizing bike-taxis as a mode of transportation in the country, according to Rafiq Malik, Bykea’s chief operating officer. He said that while e-scooters are useful for making deliveries, they are not apt to ferry passengers.
It’s never goodbye in South Asia

Oct 17, 2023 | restofworld.org | Durga Sengupta

Today is the last edition of our South Asia newsletter, so we want to take a moment to thank all of you. Thank you for subscribing and reading us over the last two years. It has meant a lot to us.
Why a tiny Indian state defied the national government to defend refugees’ biometric data

Oct 3, 2023 | restofworld.org | Durga Sengupta
Bangladesh’s Cyber Security Act could still be as severe as past law

Sep 19, 2023 | restofworld.org | Durga Sengupta

Ahead of elections in January 2024, Bangladesh’s Parliament has passed the Cyber Security Act. It replaces a controversial law enacted in 2018, which allowed creators to be arrested for social media posts that were critical of the government or deemed to hurt religious sentiments.
Guess who’s getting the world’s first self-sovereign national digital ID?

Sep 5, 2023 | restofworld.org | Durga Sengupta

Bhutan — a small Himalayan nation with less than 800,000 people — has decided to roll out a national digital identity system for all its citizens.
Guess who’s getting the world’s first self-sovereign national digital ID?

Sep 5, 2023 | flipboard.com | Durga Sengupta

17 hours agoApple is investing millions of dollars per day into artificial intelligence, according to a new report from The Information. The company is reportedly working on multiple AI models across several teams. Apple’s unit that works on conversational AI is called “Foundational Models,” per The Information’s …
What fuels India’s leading waste commerce company

Sep 4, 2023 | restofworld.org | Durga Sengupta

Think of Recykal as an e-commerce company, but for waste. The end-to-end digital solutions provider connects waste collectors with recyclers. Founded in 2015, Recykal is a waste marketplace that aims to ease “a complex supply chain,” according to co-founder Anirudha Jalan. It claims to have helped recycle at least 200,000 metric tons of waste material that would have otherwise ended up in landfills. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.