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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicScreenwriting

Topic: Screenwriting

Male gaze has met its match. Women writers are rewriting Bollywood, Aarya to Rocky Aur Rani

A growing tribe of women screenwriters, through the female gaze, are creating nuanced characters that defy tropes and telling richer, more layered stories as a result.

This is what I’ve learned about Bollywood after more than 7 years as a screenwriter

You want to direct a feature film? Write something low-budget and build a fund-raising plan.

Scriptwriting is the hot new career. Engineers, doctors rush to Netflix, Amazon, Hotstar

From writing labs to classroom courses and competitions, the explosion of OTT platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Voot is the new big draw for creative minds.

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India must allow citizens to invest beyond its borders. It’s risk management, not luxury

The financialisation of Indian household savings is one of the most important economic shifts of the past decade. But financialisation without international diversification creates fragile balance sheets.

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.