We get a lot of emails. Some of them are pitches. Some of them are fully written articles sent without any context. Some are just a single line asking, “Do you accept guest posts?” — which, fair enough, is why this page exists.
So here is everything you need to know about writing for Nav Bharat Journal.
Why Write For Us
Nav Bharat Journal is an emerging digital publication with a real Indian readership — people who want to stay in touch with the news, are interested in business and technology, consume entertainment content and read stories that do not always get through to the bigger platforms. If you have something to say to that audience, we’d like to hear from you.
We do not want filler content to fill pages. We’re hoping for contributions that truly offer something — a perspective, an analysis, an experience, or a story a reader reads to the end and says, “Oh, okay, I didn’t know that” or “That is exactly how I feel about this.” That’s the standard we hold ourselves and our team to, and it is the same standard we hold people who contribute to Nav Bharat Journal.
Writing for Nav Bharat Journal also means your work sits alongside our regular coverage — properly edited, properly published, and reaching readers who are genuinely engaged with the topics we cover.
What We Are Looking For
We welcome submissions on all kinds of topics. If you think your piece is in one of the categories below, we want to see it:
- News and current affairs — your take on something happening right now, grounded in facts and offering a perspective that goes beyond surface impressions.
- Business and startups—stories from within the Indian entrepreneurship ecosystem, analyses of market trends; founder stories, and lessons from building something from nothing.
- Technology — what is changing, what it means for India specifically, and where things are heading. We are less interested in spec breakdowns and more interested in actual impact.
- Digital marketing and SEO — practical, experience-based insights. Our readers in this space are often practitioners themselves, so the writing needs to hold up to that.
- Education and career — anything relevant to students, professionals, and the rapidly shifting landscape of how Indians learn and work today.
- Lifestyle — real, grounded content rooted in Indian life. Not aspirational fluff borrowed from a Western publication.
- Entertainment — Bollywood, OTT, music, culture. Opinion and analysis welcome, not just recaps.
- Influencer and creator stories — the people building audiences, the platforms they use, the reality behind what the creator economy looks like in India right now.
- Opinion and editorial — if you have a strong, well-argued point of view on something relevant to our readers, we will consider it. We publish opinions we do not always personally agree with — that is the point of an opinion section.
Before You Submit — Please Read This Carefully
We have a few non-negotiable requirements and it saves everyone time if you know them upfront.
Your article must be original. It should not have been published anywhere else before — not on another website, not on your own blog, not on LinkedIn. We check. If we find that it has been published elsewhere, we will remove it and will not work with that contributor again.
Minimum length is 800 words. Shorter pieces rarely give a topic the space it needs. If your draft is sitting at 600 words, it probably needs another section, not just padding.
Structure your piece properly. Use headings. Break up long blocks of text. Write so that a reader on a phone can follow along without losing the thread — and most of our readers are on phones.
As a general principle, state your sources if you are quoting facts, data or statistics. A number with no source is just a number. We’re going to ask for the source anyway during editing so cut out some back-and-forth and put it in from the get-go.
We do not allow promotional material. If your article is a straightforward advertisement, disguised as editorial content, for your product, service or brand, we will not publish it. If you are looking for sponsored content, that is an entirely different domain.
Submissions are subject to edits for clarity, length, structure and style. We won’t change the substance of what you’ve written without checking with you, but light editing is common and expected.
How to Submit
Send your completed article to: (contact@navbharatjournal.com)
Use this subject line: Guest Post Submission – Nav Bharat Journal
Include a short note about yourself — who you are, what you do, and why you wrote this particular piece. You do not need to send a formal bio, just a few lines so our team has some context.
Our editorial team reviews every submission personally. You will hear back within three to five working days. If your piece is not the right fit, we will let you know — we do not just leave submissions sitting without a response.
One More Thing
We appreciate writers who have actually read Nav Bharat Journal before submitting. It sounds like an obvious thing to say, but you would be surprised how many pitches arrive that have clearly never looked at the publication they are pitching to. Spend ten minutes on the site. Get a feel for the tone, the topics, and the kind of reader we are writing for. It genuinely makes a difference to whether your piece lands.
We are looking forward to reading what you send.