Varsha Torgalkar (India) covers climate change, public health, and rural economy. She has written for many LA Times, Al Jazeera among many news websites.

Varsha Torgalkar is an award-winning journalist based in India. She covers rural economy, climate justice, just transition, public health, communal and caste violence, agriculture, intersection of technology and society travel and so on.

She has written for Al Jazeera, LA Times, Washington Post, The Wire, Firstpost, Rest of World among many reputed national and international news publications.

Varsha has received RedInk award given by Mumbai Press Club in 2021, Press Institute of India-ICRC award in 2020 and Laadli-UNFPA award in 2020 and 2023. She has received grants by Journalismfund Europe, Earth Journalism Network, Thomson Reuters Foundation, National Foundation of India and UNICEF.

She is a trekker and has scaled Everest Base Camp, Annapurna Circuit and Goacha La in Himalayas.

Varsha Torgalkar

Basic information

Name
Varsha Torgalkar
Title
Journalist
Expertise
climate change, public health, and rural economy
Country
India
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The logistics black hole: 'legally' exploited in Italy, threatened in India

LADNUN / PADUA — This investigation documents that at least 100 Indians paid up to €20,000 to reach northern Italy, living in overcrowded old houses, and being exploited as warehouse workers by cooperatives serving large retailers.

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The Human Cost of G4S' Watch

  • Security
  • Technology

LJUBLJANA - What is the cost of security companies, such as G4S? One way of calculating the harm is counting the dead and the injured. 

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The suicide epidemic in the profitable Indian microfinance market

  • Agriculture
  • Finance

MUMBAI - This story focuses on the suicide epidemic of Indian farmers related to over-indebtedness. For the first time the names of the lenders and their donors involved in the farmers' suicides due to overindebeteness are uncovered.

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