Your perspective belongs here

How it works

1. Create your account once (email and password, or Google), then fill in your contributor profile.
2. Write in the editor with live preview, or upload a Markdown (.md) file you wrote elsewhere. Your work saves as a draft.
3. Submit for review. An editor reads it, usually within 5 working days, and either publishes it or sends it back with notes.
4. It goes live on the homepage, its topic page and your profile.

What we publish

• Perspective: your opinion, 800–1,500 words
• Editorial: in-depth analysis with data, 1,500–3,000 words
• Explainer: makes a complex topic simple, 600–1,200 words
• Interview: a Q&A with someone worth hearing from
• Podcast: an episode on Spotify or YouTube, with show notes

Topics: Education, Innovation & Startups, Employment & Skills, Robotics & AI, Agriculture & Rural, Governance & Policy, Culture & Society.

Writing in Markdown

Markdown is plain text with a few symbols for formatting: ## Heading, **bold**, *italic*, - list item, [link text](https://…) and ![image description](https://…). The editor has buttons for all of these, so you don't need to memorise them.

If you write in a file, start it with this header so the details fill in automatically when you upload it:

---
title: Why every district needs a maker lab
summary: One or two sentences that make people want to read on.
topic: robotics-ai
format: perspective
language: en
---

Open with a story, a number or a question.

## Your first point

Short paragraphs. Link to your sources, like [this](https://example.com).

## Your second point

- Lists are fine
- **Bold** for emphasis

*Close with what you want readers to think or do.*

Hosting a podcast episode

Record your conversation (Riverside, Zoom or StreamYard all work), publish it on Spotify for Creators or YouTube, then create a new piece with the format Podcast and paste the episode link. The player is embedded automatically. Use the body for show notes: who's talking, key points and links.

Our standards

• Original work only. Tell us if you used AI tools, and how.
• Back up claims with sources.
• Non-partisan and respectful: critique ideas and policies, not people.
• Only use images you have the right to use, and credit them.
• You keep the copyright to your work and give The Telanganite permission to publish it.