Varsha Bansal

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Urban Company Lured Women Into the Gig Economy—Then Pushed Them Out

In 2020, Nazia was working at a data entry office in Hyderabad, but dreamed of being a beautician. Then, on YouTube, she saw a video about Urban Company, a platform similar to...

Gig Workers Are Being Stabbed, Stoned, and Abused in India

One night at around 2 am this past January, Uber driver Priyanka Devi was on her way to pick up a passenger in the Kashmiri Gate area in Delhi. While she waited...

SVB’s Collapse Is Causing Chaos in India’s Tech Sector

“In case of India, the number of Indian startups is definitely very high compared to other nations, except for US, but the capital would not be as much,” says Smriti Tomar,...

India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet

Akash Banerjee isn’t sure whether he’s allowed to talk about the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question on his YouTube channel. The documentary examines Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role in deadly...

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