Debarshi Dasgupta

India Bureau Chief

Debarshi is The Straits Times’ India Bureau Chief based in New Delhi. He has been writing for the publication since 2018 and has worked as a reporter in India for over two decades. Some of the issues he has covered extensively include the country’s domestic and foreign politics, 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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Rivers turn to conveyor belts of dead bodies with more washing up at Nepal’s shores

A team from the Nepali army on patrol along the bank of the Trishuli river in Chitwan district on Aug 31, looking for potential bodies that may have floated downstream.

‘1 per cent chance’: Siblings’ desperate search for missing Singaporean couple in Nepal disaster

Singaporean couple Sumit Rawla (left) and Shubakshi Rawla were last reported to be in or around Timure, a Nepali town close to the border with Tibet.

‘The river… was going to consume the entire world’: Nepal flood survivors recount harrowing experience

Bikash Tharu, 28, had a narrow escape on August 26 because he was late for work at a dam along the Bhotekoshi river.

Tour boss searches for missing brother and 54 pilgrims by air after Nepal floods

The widened channel of the Bhote Koshi River in the Rasuwa district of Nepal on Aug 27, after the flash flooding.

‘I had to turn my eyes away’: Search for loved ones missing in Nepal flood turns grim in Kathmandu

People waiting outside Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, one of the city’s two major public hospitals where the dead as well as injured are being brought, on Aug 28.

Matcha, with a twist of Assam: India enters the global matcha production line

Chota Tingrai’s tea bushes. The section on the right with additional shading produces tea leaves used to make matcha at this tea estate in India’s Assam state.

New wave of youth protests hits India – this time schoolchildren are demanding better facilities

Schoolchildren, representatives of the CJP and others outside the Government Higher Secondary School in Jodhavas in Rajasthan after their successful protest demanding better school infrastructure and additional teachers.

‘Our real friend. Our PM’: Modi’s BJP attempts to mend bridges with India’s youth

A policeman fires tear gas shells to disperse supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party during a protest demanding the resignation of India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

Are ‘dumb gym bros’ ruining the image of Mahindra Thar, one of India’s most popular SUVs?

A forensic team examines the spot at Mother Teresa Crescent Marg at Talkatora Parking, where a Thar met with an accident, in New Delhi, on Aug 10, 2025.

‘Fear of the regime has now gone’: How big a risk does ‘cockroach’ movement pose to India’s BJP?

Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) supporters wave national flags a day after the resignation of India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in Mumbai on July 26, 2026.