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Telling Character Stories

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Interview with Devika Bhagat, film and television screenwriter, who firmly believes in letting her ‘characters and their world’ guide her.  

By Amrita Rajan
 
You may not be familiar with her name but you’re definitely acquainted with Devika Bhagat’s work. She co-wrote the critically acclaimed Manorama Six Feet Under starring indie darling Abhay Deol as well as the script for the Ranbir Kapoor starrer Bachna Ae Haseeno, remarkable for Bipasha Basu’s most honest work till date. 
 
She’s also the creative force behind Sony’s Mahi Way, an unusually enjoyable Indian television series that just concluded its first season, about one young woman’s struggle to find herself beyond her dress size.

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Making Every Word Count

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Meet Nirupama Subramanian, Political Correspondent with The Hindu, who has been for many Indians, an important source of information on happenings in Sri Lanka and Pakistan. 

By Aparna V. Singh
 
Nirupama has previously worked with other publications such as The Times of India, The Indian Express and India Today. In 2002, she went to Harvard on the Nieman Fellowship for Journalists, which allowed her to work on a book based on her Sri Lankan stint, Sri Lanka : Voices from a War Zone. She received the Prem Bhatia Award for Best Political Reporting in 2008 and the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Mediaperson, 2008-09.
 
Currently based out of Islamabad, Nirupama graciously made time from her busy schedule for this e-mail interview with Women’s Web. (This interview was originally conducted in November 2009). 

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