Debarshi Dasgupta
India Correspondent
Debarshi is The Straits Times’ India Correspondent based in New Delhi. He has been writing for the publication since 2018 and has worked as a reporter in India for close to two decades. Some of the issues he has covered extensively include the country’s marginalised languages and cultures, ethnic affairs and the environment, as well as science and technology. His work won him the National Foundation for India’s National Media Award in 2014 and the Laadli Media Award in 2012. Debarshi holds a postgraduate degree in political science from Sciences Po in Paris. He enjoys learning new languages.
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