My name is Bansari, and I’m an independent journalist and researcher based in India. Prior to freelancing, I was the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Editor for Reuters’ Global Markets Forum.
For more than six years I have reported on business, economic policy, gender and immigration for domestic and international news media outlets such as The Boston Globe, The Diplomat, Huffington Post, The Conversation, World Politics Review, to name just a few.
I have also worked in economic and policy research for nearly three years and published a paper for the MassBenchmarks Journal, a publication of UMass and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. An aspiring polyglot, I’m fluent in English, Hindi, and Gujarati, can hold a decent conversation in Spanish and I am still working on mastering the script for Urdu.
For tips, hot takes, and duas, you can reach me securely at bansarikamdar@protonmail.com.
Reporting Highlights ⇢
The Diplomat
Hosna Jalil listens during a ceremony at the Interior Ministry, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 5, 2018. Credit: AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini
A feature on Hosna Jalil, one of Afghanistan’s highest-ranking female policymakers, discussing her fight against harassment, discrimination, and death threats, weeks before the fall of Kabul.
Reuters
Credit: Saudi Tadawul Group
Wrote more than 500 stories for Reuters News, such as this one which was the top read article on how investors pulled record sums from Saudi Arabia as tensions rose in the Middle East.
The Boston Globe
Jophiel Ramirez, left, distributes boxes of food outside La Colaborativa in Chelsea. Credit: Globe Staff/Craig F. Walker
A long read on how the COVID-19 pandemic hit communities of colour the hardest in Massachusetts and a proposal for guaranteed minimum income.
Huffington Post
Credit: Getty Images/Virojt Changyencham
First to break the story on how tech layoffs and more stringent immigration rules were a double whammy for H1B worker in the United States during COVID-19.
Reuters
The Bombay Stock Exchange building in Mumbai, India. Credit: BSE
Helped build Reuters’ file on exchange traded funds, such as this story on India ETF flows hitting a record in 2023 and how most foreign investors were optimistic inflows will continue in the election year.
The Conversation
Photo by CIAT – NP Himachal Pradesh/Wikimedia
Published a research-based story on how women grow as much as 80% of India’s food – but laws often overlook their struggles.
Selected Stories
Economy & Politics
- As trade war escalates, economists bet on China resilience (Reuters)
- Why a guaranteed minimum income makes sense for the state’s hardest hit communities (The Boston Globe)
- Bhutan’s Health Minister on navigating the pandemic (The Diplomat)
- India, UAE sign pact on trans-continental trade corridor (Reuters)
- What to make of India’s absence from the second Belt and Road Forum? (The Diplomat)
- ECB likely to cut rates in September, former central banker says (Reuters)
Gender Policy
- In South Asia, women will bear the brunt of Trump’s tariffs (World Politics Review)
- My good fight’: being a woman in Afghanistan’s politics (The Diplomat)
- Women grow as much as 80% of India’s food – but its new farm laws overlook their struggles (The Conversation)
- For these South Asian women in the US, lockdown has led to increased domestic violence (Huffington Post)
- Addressing gendered burdens in India during COVID-19 (Ms. Magazine)
Business & Financial Markets
- India’s Adani vs Hindenburg Research: What you need to know (Reuters)
- Investors pump over $600 mln into defense funds as geopolitical tensions rise (Reuters)
- India beats Asian rivals in Middle East private capital deals since 2020 (Reuters)
- Investors exit clean energy funds as higher interest rates bite (Reuters)
- Public investors with $4.3 trln are down on China but in on net zero (Reuters)
- India ETF flows hit record in 2023, analysts see momentum persisting in election year (Reuters)
- Labor-focused Fed to continue rate cuts, Morgan Stanley’s CIO says (Reuters)
- Sahm rule creator sees 50-bps Fed rate cut on labor market worries (Reuters)
- Investors pull record sums from Saudi in Middle East fund flight (Reuters)
- US bankruptcy wave may stretch into 2024, but pace could slow (Reuters)
- ‘Magnificent 7’ bets drive hedge fund crowding to record high -Goldman Sachs (Reuters)
Along with this, also wrote the Reuters flagship daily market reports for more than three years spanning United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Migration & Diaspora
- Indian H-1B visa holders in US face layoffs as coronavirus topples economy (Huffington Post)
- India’s refugee policy: from strategic ambiguity to exclusion? (The Diplomat)
- Students back in home countries struggle to keep up with classes at US colleges (Huffington Post)
- Playing the ‘Indian Card’: Harris, Gabbard and US elections (The Quint)
- Are Indian-American women slowly realizing their political potential in the US? (CNN-News18)
- Absentee ballots and need for re-enfranchising India’s migrant workers (The Diplomat)
Technology
- Crypto’s charms leave some investors in Davos cold (Reuters)
- Cryptoverse: Remember when bitcoin was ‘anonymous’? (Reuters)
- Apple inches closer to $3 trillion market cap (Reuters)
- Facebook’s troubled history in South Asia (The Diplomat)
- Meme stock Bed Bath & Beyond soars after investor Ryan Cohen’s latest filing (Reuters)
- Newly minted meme stock darling AMTD slides after eye-popping surge (Reuters)
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