Varsha Bansal's profile photo

Varsha Bansal

New York

Freelance Journalist and Writer at Freelance

Independent journalist. Writes on tech & society. Currently a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at @columbia. Bylines: @TIME, @wired, @techreview, @AJEnglish, @restofworld

Featured in: Favicon indiatimes.com (+1) Favicon time.com Favicon wired.com (+1) Favicon yahoo.com (+3) Favicon aljazeera.com Favicon slate.com Favicon flipboard.com Favicon livemint.com Favicon technologyreview.com Favicon rappler.com

Articles

  • How a Secret BJP War Room Mobilized Female Voters to Win the Indian Elections

    Jul 30, 2024 | technewstube.com | Nilesh Christopher |Varsha Bansal

    Tech News Tube is a real time news feed of the latest technology news headlines.Follow all of the top tech sites in one place, on the web or your mobile device.

  • How a Secret BJP War Room Mobilized Female Voters to Win the Indian Elections

    Jul 30, 2024 | wired.com | Nilesh Christopher |Varsha Bansal

    In April, an unassuming old building in New Delhi’s furniture market housed roughly 30 youngsters. Some were hunched over their laptops crunching data on Excel or analyzing a heat map, while others huddled to discuss strategy. These were engineering graduates, economists, political scientists, and others. There were office chairs, desks, and a couple of white boards. The entire setup could easily have passed as a startup office, but it wasn’t. This was an election war room.

  • The rise and fall of Koo, India’s once-thriving Twitter alternative

    Jun 10, 2024 | restofworld.org | Varsha Bansal

    When Mukul joined Indian microblogging startup KooiKooKoo is an Indian microblogging and social networking service founded in 2020.READ MORE in early 2023, he was eager to work with the roughly 300-member team building India’s answer to X (previously Twitter). He was hired to work on different features on the app, including revamping parts of the homepage. Mukul hoped his career would skyrocket along with the company’s growth. Just a month after he joined, the company began laying off workers.

  • Varsha Bansal

    Jun 10, 2024 | restofworld.org | Varsha Bansal

    Why are Indian startup founders fleeing to Dubai? “We are going back to the internet-boom era, where most of the tech founders or anybody who thought they could create a good product moved out.”

  • Epic Games | Flipboard

    May 30, 2024 | flipboard.com | Varsha Bansal

    NowIf things go as planned, the medicine could be available to consumers by 2030. I remember being a kid and seeing my grandmother without her dentures for the first time. It was a harrowing experience. Now my dad has dentures so, genetically speaking, I’m several decades out from needing some myself. …

Contact details

Emails

[email protected]

Socials & Sites

Try JournoFinder For Free

Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.

Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →

X (formerly Twitter)

Followers
6K
Tweets
3K
DMs Open
Yes
Varsha Bansal
Varsha Bansal @VarshaaBansal
12 Nov 24

RT @pulitzercenter: "Bansal's meticulously researched piece offers a rare glimpse into the lives of gig workers in India." Congratulations…

Varsha Bansal
Varsha Bansal @VarshaaBansal
19 Oct 24

RT @columbiajourn: Award-winners included Andrew Deck of @NiemanLab; @VarshaaBansal, 2025 Knight-Bagehot Fellow; @Raksha_Kumar, '11 M.S., o…

Varsha Bansal
Varsha Bansal @VarshaaBansal
16 Oct 24

So honoured to receive @sajahq award for outstanding business reporting in South Asia. Wouldn’t have been possible without the support of all the editors and the @pulitzercenter! https://t.co/qkmLWCKRYr