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Mohammed Rayaan

Journalist. Writer. Newsletter Creator. 29.Chennai & New Delhi. Alum: Young India Fellow at Ashoka University and EJCP Fellow at Craig Newmark J School-City University of New York. Ex-The Hindu BusinessLine, DT Next, NewsToday and Talk Media.

Feb 17, 2026

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12 min read

Is Speaking Out Loud Grammar's Last Defense?

My mother taught me to speak out loud when writing. 15 years later, AI taught me the same lesson—differently.

Feb 9, 2026

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13 min read

How To Write Curations That Outlast AI

Yes, hacks/ tips can teach you but what you really need is taste... and that takes time, questions, and a lot of reading.

Feb 5, 2026

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9 min read

The 2026 Manifesto: Think, Read, Write—Or Get Left Behind

Brain rot and AI slop have killed our ability to think. The Fiction Emailer offers a solution: speculative journalism and fiction frameworks that help you think clearer, read sharper, write better

Jan 19, 2026

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2 min read

2026: The Year in Writing

🪙Scroll Gold: Three Quick Reads For Writers & Creators To Ace The Next Few Months

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Jan 12, 2026

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3 min read

2026: Books Hitting The Shelves This Year

🪙Scroll Gold: Curated Upcoming Fiction & Non-fiction Worthy Of Your Time

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Jan 6, 2026

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5 min read

When Small Is The Focused Big

Curated Stories of Writers Building Niche Local Publications

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Dec 28, 2025

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4 min read

A not so ‘Merry Christmas’ in India + Curation of Best 2025 Books

🪙Scroll Gold: The State of MAGA-USA, Jeffrey Epstein, TikTok & More

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Dec 21, 2025

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3 min read

Messy Messi Tour & Indian Football + Epstein's Wealth Empire + LitRPG Author & His Crazy Fans

🪙Scroll Gold—Your weekly antidote to info overload. Articles, books, insights that actually mattered—handpicked and ready to read.

Dec 19, 2025

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4 min read

The Newsletter That Reads 1,000 Articles Daily So You Don't Have To

💌Happy Inbox Series—Weekly Newsletter picks that'll make you actually want to check your email

Dec 16, 2025

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10 min read

What Will Happen If Our World Flips Like Apple TV's Pluribus?

When an alien virus turns humans into a non-violent hivemind in the sci-fi series (by 'Breaking Bad' creator), it feels dystopian. But real-world evidence from Costa Rica, 7th Century Arabia, and neuroscience tells a different story: perhaps we don't need struggle, we just need safety?

Dec 13, 2025

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5 min read

The Harvard-Backed Newsletter Decoding Journalism's Future

💌Happy Inbox Series—Weekly Newsletter picks that'll make you actually want to check your email

Dec 11, 2025

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4 min read

Dark Feature on Bleak Tech Future & Indian Football, Musk's Cheap Net + Leftist Crime Books

🪙Scroll Gold—Your weekly antidote to info overload. Articles, books, insights that actually mattered—handpicked and ready to read.

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Dec 7, 2025

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4 min read

How Simon Owen's Media Newsletter Decodes Publishing & Money

💌Happy Inbox Series—Weekly Newsletter picks that'll make you actually want to check your email

Dec 6, 2025

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2 min read

Netflix Eats Hollywood, The Typewriter Doctor + Sanchar Saathi App Breakup

🪙Scroll Gold—Your weekly antidote to info overload. Articles, books, insights that actually mattered—handpicked and ready to read.

Nov 30, 2025

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9 min read

How Stranger Things Got Made: Writing is like Pulling Teeth, and that's Normal

The Duffer Brothers' Masterclass reveals the unglamorous truth of crafting a fictional world: discipline creates conditions for creativity.

Nov 22, 2025

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7 min read

This Movie Made Me Understand How Deepfakes Could Start Nuclear War

Kathryn Bigelow's A House of Dynamite shows what Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War book only described: the suffocating terror of making life-or-death decisions when you can't verify anything. And we're living in that world right now.

Sep 7, 2025

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4 min read

How I'm Using Imaginative Worlds to Make Sense of the News

Welcome to Fiction Emailer: a newsletter that aims to make sense of our chaotic world through the lens of ‘Speculative Journalism & Fiction’. By rayaan_writer.

A newsletter that aims to make sense of our chaotic world through the lens of ‘Speculative Journalism & Fiction’

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