Sarika Bansal is a freelance journalist and a graduate student at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She writes a blog on Forbes.com on private sector solutions to global health. Her writing has also been published in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Huffington Post, The National, and Hindustan Times. She has previously worked in management consulting with McKinsey & Company and in microfinance business development in India. She holds an undergraduate degree in Disease and Public Policy (self-designed) from Harvard College.
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Great site Great writing and an interesting mix of topics. A chance wanderer to your site, got in to reading quite a bit. Being a mumbaikar at heart, a finance engineer by what was once a vocation and now riding in to the sunset, I find the choices of topics great.
Good luck to your pen.
Cheers
Bala
great sarika,
you are brave and you will achive the sky of writing
Dear Sarika,
I don’t blog or comment on blogs, so hope this can remain personal.
Can I ask your advice?
I am a Bangkok-based journalist (my website: http://www.sochaczewski.com ) and often write about environment. Two of my books: Soul of the Tiger, and Sultan and the Mermaid Queen. In the Indian context I’ve searched for Hanuman’s mountain in Uttaranchal, written about a conservation effort in Vrindavan, the Chipko movement, and the French in Pondicherry.
I also have a curiosity/affection for Ganesha.
A few years ago I attended the Ganesha Chaturthi in Mumbai, and in September I hope to attend the event in Pune.
I appreciate your article about the environmental impact of the Ganesh Chaturthi, also the concept of linking to Tilak.
Do you have any suggestions for people I might contact in Pune to learn more about the environmental impact? I’d be grateful for your advice.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Paul
PS: And I appreciate your affinity with places with strange names. I’m intrigued by places with evocative names: Timbuktu, Okavango, Salvador de Bahia, Sumatra, Malacca, Makassar, Ayudhya, and so on.
I saw your piece today on Global Handwashing Day and wanted to know if you would be interested in talking to someone at OneWorld Health (OWH, http://www.oneworldhealth.org) — they are a non-profit drug developer of medicines for infectious diseases in the developing world. I can send you more information if you would like it. This is OWH’s 10th anniversary — when they started they were the first non-profit pharma company and it has been an exciting time.
OWH’s headquarters are in San Francisco but they also have offices in India, where they do a lot of work on Kala-azar eradication. Another initiative they are working on is a semi-synthetic version of artemisinin and an innovative new treatment for diarrheal disease.
Please let me know & thanks for your great site,
Alyson
Dear Sarika,
I read your few blogs, i found them to be very interesting and informative. You are an excellent writer and journalist. Good job. You are doing great work. Keep it up! I liked especially those articles focusing on the health care and pharmaceuticals industry.