: वर्षा भोसले) (born 1956) is an India

India

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n singer, journalist

Journalist

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 and writer based in Mumbai

Mumbai

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. She is the daughter of Indian playback singer

Playback singer

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, Asha Bhosle

Asha Bhosle

Asha Bhosle is an Indian singer. She is one of the best-known and most highly-regarded Hindi playback singers in India, although she has a wider repertoire. Bhosle's career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over a thousand Bollywood movies...

.

Career

Varsha has worked as a playback singer in Hindi and Marathi movies, and appeared in concerts with her mother.

Varsha studied Political Science

Political science

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 at Elphinstone College

Elphinstone College

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, which is affiliated with Bombay University in Mumbai.

She wrote columns for the Indian web portal

Web portal

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, Rediff, during 1997 - 2003; columns for The Sunday Observer during 1994 - 1998; and for Gentleman

Gentleman (magazine)

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 magazine in 1993. She also wrote a little for the Times of India.

Personal life

She currently lives in Mumbai with her mother.

On September 9, 2008, she was reported to have been hospitalized following an adverse reaction to medicines. A news agency suggested attempted suicide by her consuming an overdose of sleeping tablets.