India is the 3rd largest startup ecosystem. 37 unicorns. Billions in value. Yet no Indian brand in the global top 100.
That’s the gap Gayatri Yadav is focused on closing. What comes next is worth watching.
#india #startups #sequoia #brandbuilding
The story tells me what format it wants to be in.”
For Eva Moon, creating isn’t a choice it’s something you survive, not control.
Stories don’t follow rules they force their way out.
#creativity #storytelling #writing
“No one will believe it even though they all know I can’t lie.”
Eva Moon’s Pinocchio retelling asks what it means to live in a body you didn’t begin in and to measure life from creation, not origin.
Old stories, same questions.
#pinocchio #storytelling #books #truefiction
Seven books. One every year.
Debut novelist Vicky McGrath isn’t just telling a story she’s building a world.
Most people wait to “make it” before thinking big. She planned all seven from the start. That’s not just ambition. That’s strategy.
#AuthorLife #DebutNovel #BookSeries #WritingCommunity
Boys won't read books about girls. So she changed the character. Simple research, real solution. Vicky McGrath started with her daughter and her best friend as inspiration, then let the data reshape the story without losing the heart of it. #childrenbooks #graphicnovel #authorlife #storytelling
Lockdown gave a lot of people anxiety. It gave Vicky McGrath a book series. She was running an in-person business, her daughter was home from school, and everyone was just... stuck. So she did what writers do — the characters started showing up uninvited, and she had the good sense to let them in.
Vicky McGrath didn't find her publisher through a query letter or a cold pitch. She found them through her own personal development journey — which led her to author Peggy McCall, whose sister runs Hasmark Publishing. Follow for stories about ambition, creativity, and the unexpected ways things.
"If you're not restless, you're not creative." Marshall Fine has been juggling novels, plays, screenplays, biographies, and documentaries for decades — most of it while holding down a full-time job. The hard drive full of unproduced scripts isn't failure. Full conversation on the podcast now.
Journalism gives you a license to ask nosy questions. That's literally the job description. Marshall Fine spent six hours with Howard Stern for a Playboy interview — somehow that's both completely on-brand and deeply impressive. 6 hours. Most people can't sit with their own thoughts for 6 minutes.
"Rage with intention." Four words that reframe everything.
A ghost learns what a furnace already knows: fury without purpose just burns the house down.
John McDermott's debut novel is the kind of writing that makes you stop and read the sentence again.
Full interview — link in bio.
"We'll have to prove them wrong." Mary Anning said it in the early 1800s. Michele Hollow is still telling the story because it still needs to be told. Fossils millions of years old. The oldest story in the book: someone does the work, someone else gets the credit.
#maryanning #historicalfiction
This reminds me of my honeymoon. 30+ years ago in Bali. Croissants, Eddie Henderson and Toraja coffee. Share with a pal who thinks the horn section is the best part of the band.
#jazz #sfjazz #honeymoon @milesdavis @johncoltrane #eddiehenderson @lennywhitemusic
She moved to Mumbai. Left her dream kit in California. The beach house is on page one. Inner peace is on page three. She seems fine.
www.aceofblades.org
#AceOfBlades #AuthorLife #MumbaiDiaries #ImmigrantLife #Reenita_storyteller
The follow-up nobody asked for. The godmen don’t work alone.
Juggernaut did a great story on this the year the Netflix documentary was released.
#rajneesh #immigrantwomen #power #deepakchopra #godmen
OSCARS 2026: A South Asian short, a Bay Area story, a woman erased by history. Last night felt personal. Like they were made for one film that wasn’t even in the running. REVOLUTION’S WIFE!
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I feed him.
I walk him.
I buy the treats.
But apparently I’m the intern.
Tell me the truth:
Who does your dog love more?
#dogreel #doglife #dogmomproblems #familyhumor #dogsofinstagram
“Who are you rooting for tonight? And whose story do you wish had a seat at that table?”
#Oscars2026 #WomenInFilm #Hamnet #RevolutionsWife #WomensHistoryMonth
Every culture tells this story. Someone leaves home.
Sometimes for adventure.
Sometimes for love.
Sometimes because staying is no longer possible.
But the story always begins the same way: one person stepping into the unknown.
It’s the oldest narrative humanity has. And it still works.
The East India Company just shut down. Again.
A Mumbai immigrant bought the company that colonized India. Then also went bankrupt. Redemption is complicated. But maybe don’t name your chocolate shop after a war crime.
#EastIndiaCompany #IndianHistory #ImmigrantAmbition #reenita_storyteller
She waited 108 years. We have until May. GoFundMe #linkinbio🔥🔥🔥🔥 bio. Come with us on this journey.
Wry stories about ambition, power, family dynamics. Follow @reenita_storyteller.
#RevolutionsWife #WomenInFilm #SouthAsianFilm #BadassWomen
The AMAZING cast and crew gave us everything else. Now we need Executive Producers who think a Peshawari woman working a revolutionary printing press in 1917 is worth finishing. You’re correct. It is. Link in bio.
#RevolutionsWife #ThatsAWrap #IndieFilm #ShortFilm #immigrantambition
108 years later she walks into the light.
We filmed Padmavati’s moment. The one where she steps into the light. On International Women’s Day.
Nobody planned that. It just landed that way.
Happy Women’s Day to all the Padmas out there.
Share this if you believe every woman deserves her moment.
REVOLUTION’S WIFE FILM SHOOT - DAY 2
Some stories find you. Some stories were always yours to tell.
Wry stories about ambition, power, family dynamics. Follow
@reenita_storyteller.
#RevolutionsWife #BehindTheScenes #IndieFilm #SouthAsianFilm #GhadarMovement
Americans think Holi is about colors.
It is.
But mostly it’s about family expressing love… aggressively.
If no one attacked you growing up, were you even raised Indian?
Immigrant childhood: affection, trauma, and chai.
Follow for stories about immigrant families
#reenita_storyteller
Truth, lies, and the power of imagination.
Lily Iona MacKenzie joins me on the True Fiction Project to discuss why she chooses to center her novels around women over 60 and how we "lie" in service of a deeper truth.
🔗 Link in bio to listen!
#FictionWriter #PodcastInterviews #reenita_storyteller
India just became the most important country in AI.
I covered tech as a journalist at Bloomberg and RTHK. When I saw every major AI CEO fly to Delhi last week, I didn’t see celebration. I saw a transaction. $270 billion doesn’t come with no strings. Now the question is who benefits. Watch this.
She moved to India. I asked if she'd been to a museum. She said "not yet." She's been there five months.
#reenita_storyteller #Mumbai #ReenitaHora #AuthorReel #momdaughter
She fled to Mumbai. The room told me everything.
#ReenitaHora #reenita_storyteller #Mumbai #authorlife #momdaughter
Military academies worldwide teach his campaigns as masterclasses in asymmetric warfare. Fort architecture, naval innovation, merit-based administration — centuries ahead of his time.
Start with: The Grand Rebel by Dennis Kincaid or Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India by James Laine. #Shivaji
Hearing someone read your first draft is its own kind of exposure.
Especially when the story comes from family, memory, and the long shadow of work that built a life before you could name it.
Grateful for readers who see the effort behind the inheritance.
#AceOfBlades #ImmigrantStories
