Arunima Mishra

Print & Digital Media Journalist

New Delhi, Dubai

Business and Feature journalist with 10 years of experience. Currently editor of Dstrip.ae, a Dubai-based entertainment portal Worked for India's leading publications such as Times of India, Financial Express, Business Standard, Business Today and ITP Publishing in Dubai Film Research Fellow at National Film Archive of India Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, I& B Ministry, India

Arunima Mishra

Print & Digital Media Journalist

New Delhi, Dubai

Tribals in Orissa's Niyamgiri hills reject Vedanta's bauxite mining project in a landmark referendum.
On August 13, two days before India celebrated its 67th Independence Day, a tiny village deep inside the forests of Orissa tasted the fruits of freedom. Khambesi, the village of 105 Dongria Kondh tribals, isn't easily accessible. The beautiful hamlet in Rayagada district isn't connected by road or rail networks.
Business Today
Popcorn and Politics
In the world’s largest democracy, it’s no surprise that politics often appears as a subject in films, but do we have enough of the heat and dust associated with it on screen? Is Bollywood fascinated enough with politics? This year, even if Anurag Kashyap’s politically-charged Gulaal was released just as campaigning began for Elections 09, no other “political” films are releasing in April and May.
Financial Express
Bollywood's crooning stars
With acting still being the mainstay, actors are taking to singing for their movies. Hyderabad Timesexplores the trend and gets reactions from moviegoers. In the days of yore, actors had no choice but to double up as singers for their movies. Soon professional playback singing became the norm. But like all else that comes a full circle, stars have once again taken to singing for themselves.
Times of India
Top companies are going beyond B-schools to recruit graduates from leading colleges.
They are barely 20. They have yet to graduate from Delhi's prestigious Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC). Yet, according to SRCC's placement cell, nine of its students have been hired by global banking major Deutsche Bank with an attractive annual pay package of Rs 15 lakh. According to job portal Naukri's latest Hiring Outlook, there is buoyancy in hiring activity for freshers and entry-level employees in 2014, with IT and pharma hirers leading the way.
Business Today
The changing face of villainy
Bollywood's quintessential bad guy is undergoing a metamorphosis. Hyderabad Times traces the trend. Think of Bollywood villains and it's hard not to visualise Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan) and Mugambo (Amrish Puri). But those days seem to be history. Today's Bollywood villain is a more subtle character, and conventional heroes and heroines are vying to pick up the best of negative roles for obvious reasons.
Times of India
Local Call
Indian handset brands have taken on their multinational rivals. Can they survive in the long run? The unthinkable has happened. In less than two years, a clutch of Indian brands like Micromax, Spice, Karbonn, Zen and Lava have snatched 14 per cent of the mobile handset market from multinational corporations.
Business Standard
Million-Donor Movies
More and more independent regional filmmakers are looking at crowdfunding to make movies. For Amrit Amlan Pattanaik, cinema meant just a medium of entertainment and discussion. But that was only until he became a film investor. The Hyderabad-based lecturer in mass communication had been impressed with independent, or indie, filmmaker Srinivas Sunderrajan's first feature, The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project.
Business Today
OUT OF STEP ...
Post renovation, Ravindra Bharathi isn’t spruced up enough to appeal to the art aficionados in the city. Hyderabad Times does a reality check. From soul-stirring concerts by world-renowned artists like Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia to an arangetam of budding artistes, Ravindra Bharathi has always been the most preferred venue.
Times of India
The makeover job, a classic tale
They can be real spoilsports. Classic movies are veritable treasures. But they are also immensely vulnerable—they catch dust easily, get scratched with slight mishandling, and fade and warp over time. Indeed, many Indian movies produced in the 1930s and 1940s have been lost due to poor storage conditions and neglect.
Financial Express
Blood to ink
Chetan Bhagat’s 2 States, or Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. For most bookstores, those are first preference for their show windows. Compared to the situation after 9/11, when a plethora of books on the subject dominated US bookstores, there has been remarkably little on 26/11. Ranjana Sengupta, Editorial Director, Penguin Books India, which is releasing Confronting Terrorism tomorrow, reasons that the issue first needs to be resolved.
Financial Express
Watch out for Ghari express
Ghari has outshined several multinational brands to become the second largest-selling detergent in the country. Here’s how starts at Sonargaon in Bangladesh, cuts across Kolkata, Varanasi, Delhi, Amritsar, Lahore and Peshawar before it completes its 2,500-km journey at Landi Kotal in north-west Pakistan.
Business Standard
Young rebels
A chucks his job to make a film on the Chittagong uprising. Arunima Mishra speaks to its cast and crew. In the 1930s, teenagers, boys as well as girls, rose against the British in Chittagong under their teacher, Surjya Sen or Masterda. The incident was lost in history for over 75 years. Then, last year, Ashutosh Gowariker made based on the book Do & Die by Manini Chatterjee.
Business Standard

About

Arunima Mishra

Sub-editing

Reporting

Journalism

Proof-reading

New media

Film Appreciation

Writing

Creative Writing

Editing

Blogging

Event reporting

Social Media

Online journalism

Multimedia Storytelling

Newspapers

Magazines

Long-from narrative

Freelance

Storytelling

Photography

Public Relation

Events

Movie Marketing

Areas of expertise:

Reporting & Editing
➲ Delivered periodically for the Business Today print edition, news pieces for BT online in the form of stories, charts, video interviews, photo slide shows (along with a photographer in conceptualising and captioning)
➲ Wrote long-form business features and analyses on subjects such as Media and Entertainment, Human
Resource & Management Education, FastMoving Consumer Goods companies, Dairy products, F&B sector, besides special features for the Business Today print magazine as well as Business Today online.
➲ Done a TV feature and videos for online
➲ Sharp and clear understanding of how smallsize, indigenous companies have performed better than large multinationals in a competitive market place
➲ Engage with various sources of information to add value to the news reports and features on cinema and
music
➲ Reviewing ATL and BTL campaigns (print,television commercials, digital, radio, outofhome) of companies
across sectors
➲ Conducting Q&As with CEOs, global heads, advertising professionals, management gurus, Bschool
professors, filmmakers, film producers, music directors, lyricists, singers, script writers, theatre artists etc
➲ Covering business conferences (global and national) of multinationals and Indian companies, film festivals,
❑ Selected participant of the 40t h Film Appreciation course jointly conducted by Film and Television
Institute of India and National Film Archive of India, the Ministry of I&B, India

❑ Worked with the number 1 Indian business magazine, Business Today (New Delhi), and 3 national
dailies Business Standard (New Delhi), Financial Express (New Delhi) and Times of India (Hyderabad)
❑ At present, consulting the Konark Film Festival, Odisha, as a Festival Associate and working on a few
freelance writing and editing assignments
❑ Winner of the 12th Business Standard Seema Nazareth Award for Excellence in Print Journalist for 2010 for my reports in the areas of advertising and marketing

❑ Following key industry insiders from the fields of social affairs, cinema, music, theatre, literature, social
media, ecommerce, advertising, marketing etc; tracking trends by following news of national relevance,
published in various publications, websites and social media portal music soirees, theatre festivals and panel discussions alike
Editorial cooordination
➲ Researched for special issues like Luxury, Most Powerful Women, Best CEOs, Coolest Startups, Best Companies to Work For, Best Bschool, to name a few, at Business Today.
➲ Managed the editorial content of the monthly magazine and the quarterly journal that involves ideating, conceptualising cover visuals, commissioning columns to industry experts on the respective topics at Business Standard
➲ Was incharge of the special package of the special Bschool issue (Indian Management), conducting photo shoot