Parmesh Shahani is curently based in Mumbai where he works on
innovation and culture at Godrej Industries. He is also affiliated
with the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium, a think tank that explores how
corporations can understand and profit from the changing media
landscape. In the past, he has founded Freshlimesoda.com, India’s
first online youth expression community, and worked across the Indian
media and corporate landscapes at organizations like Elle, the Times
of India group, Sony Entertainment Television and Mahindra. His first
book – Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary
India (New Delhi, London, Los Angeles, Singapore: Sage Publications)
was released in 2008.
innovation and culture at Godrej Industries. He is also affiliated
with the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium, a think tank that explores how
corporations can understand and profit from the changing media
landscape. In the past, he has founded Freshlimesoda.com, India’s
first online youth expression community, and worked across the Indian
media and corporate landscapes at organizations like Elle, the Times
of India group, Sony Entertainment Television and Mahindra. His first
book – Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary
India (New Delhi, London, Los Angeles, Singapore: Sage Publications)
was released in 2008.
Parmesh is a TED Fellow who participated the TED India conference in
Mysore in 2009 and co-organized TEDxMumbai and TEDx Delhi in 2010. He
often presents on different aspects of creative and corporate India at forums such as
Next Media (Banff, Canada), XMedia Lab (Auckland, New Zealand) and the
Prague Bollywood Film Festival and at institutions like the Berghs
School of Communication (Stockholm, Sweden).
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