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Nikhil Chinapa joins DotMe as advisor, backing startup’s global ambitions
MUMBAI: Nikhil Chinapa, the media personality who helped build India’s electronic music scene from scratch, has thrown his weight behind DotMe, a Mumbai creator-tech platform gunning for global reach.
Chinapa, co-founder of Submerge and the curator behind festivals including Sunburn and VH1 Supersonic, stumbled across DotMe as a user before deciding to come aboard. Terms remain under wraps, but the deal marks a coup for the startup, which has quietly attracted over 100,000 monthly users with its link-in-bio tools.
The platform lets creators corral their digital lives into one slick hub: content sharing, product sales, community management and analytics, all in a single interface. Now DotMe is building a business-to-business suite for agencies and brands to wrangle creators, campaigns and data through one dashboard.
“DotMe represents what the new India stands for: products built with ambition, clarity, and the ability to scale globally,” said Chinapa, now strategic advisor. “I’m excited to join the journey and contribute to taking Indian innovation to the world”.
The timing is ripe. The global creator economy is forecast to balloon from $127.65bn in 2023 to $528.39bn by 2030, growing at 22.5 per cent annually.
India’s digital content creation market alone should hit $4.40bn by decade’s end. Indian creators already sway over $350bn in consumer spending each year, a figure that underscores how content and commerce are colliding.
DotMe raised $150,000 in March at a $1.25m valuation, led by Mirza Baig, former co-founder of Jimmy’s Cocktails. Co-founder Harsh Vijaykumar said Chinapa’s arrival “pushes us to innovate even faster”.
Whether DotMe can elbow past established players like Linktree remains an open question. But with Chinapa’s cultural clout and India’s booming creator class, the platform has picked its moment to make noise.
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Why Peaky Blinders is one of television’s biggest hits that still deserves more attention
Six seasons, multiple awards and the release of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man bring the Shelby saga back into the spotlight
In the crowded universe of streaming content, only a handful of shows manage to leave a lasting cultural footprint. Peaky Blinders is overwhelmingly considered one of the biggest global hits of the past decade. Yet many viewers still haven’t fully explored the dark, gripping world of the Shelby family.
Originally produced for the UK’s BBC and later finding a massive global audience through Netflix, the series quietly grew from a British period drama into a worldwide streaming phenomenon.
Created by Steven Knight, the show follows the rise of the Shelby crime family in post-First World War Birmingham. What begins as a gritty street-gang story gradually expands into a sweeping narrative about ambition, politics, power and survival.
At the centre of the saga is Thomas Shelby, portrayed with extraordinary depth by Cillian Murphy. The casting of Murphy is widely regarded as perfect for the role. With piercing eyes, restrained dialogue and an almost hypnotic screen presence, he transforms Shelby into one of the most unforgettable characters in modern screen storytelling.
Murphy’s brilliance lies in his restraint. He rarely shouts or performs theatrically. Instead, a quiet stare, a calculated pause or a subtle shift in expression conveys the emotional storms within the character. Beneath the ruthless gang leader is a war veteran carrying trauma, guilt and loneliness. Murphy captures this complexity with remarkable precision, making Thomas Shelby both terrifying and deeply human.
Beyond its central performance, Peaky Blinders stands out for its unfiltered portrayal of reality. The show does not romanticise crime. Instead, it exposes the harsh social conditions of early 20th-century Britain, from poverty and class struggle to political extremism and the psychological scars left by war.
The series also presents powerful female characters who hold their own within the Shelby empire. Polly Gray, played by Helen McCrory, is the strategic backbone of the family and one of the most formidable figures in the story. Women in the series shape decisions, influence power structures and challenge the rigid social norms of the time.
Across six seasons, the narrative grows dramatically in scale. What begins in the smoky streets of Birmingham evolves into a story involving political conspiracies, fascism and international criminal networks.
The series has also earned significant critical acclaim. It won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Drama Series in 2018 and multiple National Television Awards for Best Drama, cementing its reputation as one of Britain’s most celebrated modern shows.
Another defining feature of the series is its iconic music. The show’s opening theme, Red Right Hand by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, became instantly recognisable and widely associated with the Shelby universe. Combined with a powerful soundtrack featuring artists such as Arctic Monkeys and Radiohead, the music helped shape the show’s dark, stylish identity and became hugely popular among fans.
And the Shelby story is not over yet.
In fact, its legacy is unfolding right now. The long-awaited feature-length continuation, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, was released on March 6, 2026, bringing the Shelby universe from streaming screens to cinemas and giving fans a new chapter in the saga.
For viewers who have not yet stepped into this world, the timing could not be better.
Six gripping seasons are ready to binge on Netflix. A new film has just arrived in theatres. And at the heart of it all stands one of the most magnetic performances in modern drama by Cillian Murphy.
So if Peaky Blinders has been sitting on your watchlist for years, this weekend is your moment.
So, by order of the Peaky fookin’ Blinders, consider this your cue to finally step into the ruthless world of Thomas Shelby. Pour yourself a drink, clear your schedule and press the play button. Because when the Peaky Blinders give an order, you listen.
