Vanakkam Chennai!

The Chennai Emailer is a weekly newsletter delivered to your email every Sunday.

A local journalism project that brings out original human-interest features & news compilation from Chennai.

The idea is to keep residents of this exciting city stay updated with useful local information.

By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get:

• ✍🏽Original features: Human-interest reportage from Chennai.

• 📰News wrap of the week: A compilation of the previous week’s top reports with relevant article links.

• 🌦️Weather reports, 🚌transport bulletins and 😷Covid data: Sourced straight from government websites and their verified social media channels.

• 🌐🎫What to do: Recommending interesting online and offline events taking place across the city from virtual webinars to podcasts to cultural exhibitions and many more.

Hello there!

Thanks for visiting The Chennai Emailer. It is run by me - Mohammed Rayaan😊✌🏽. I am a journalist/writer based in Chennai, India.

I'm delighted to announce that I won a scholarship from the Facebook Journalism Project to pursue the 100-days online Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism (City University of New York).❤️

As part of the course, I started this newsletter as my passion project to bring out the best of local journalism from this city that I call home.

A bit more about me:

I currently work as a Sub-Editor for The Hindu BusinessLine. I have worked as an entertainment and features writer for DT Next, an English daily newspaper. Previously, I was also associated with News Today, an English evening daily. 📰✍🏽

My bylines have appeared on LiveWire, Better India, and on The Opinioc, a publication in the Medium. You can also find my writings on ScrollStack. I have worked with start-ups and entrepreneurs and have created content for their businesses. 👨🏽‍💻

When I am not a journalist, I write stories of my own, read a lot of books or magazines and I watch TV. Visit my personal site www.rayaanwriter.com if you’d like to connect with me. For queries related to this newsletter, you can reach me at [email protected] | Cheers! 😊❤️