Speaker

Parmesh Shahani

Author

Parmesh Shahani is an author and curator. He presently heads the Godrej DEI Lab, a newly formed experimental ideas space, that aims to empower inclusion ecosystems both within and outside the Godrej group.

Prior to this, between 2011-2021, he founded and headed the Godrej India Culture Lab as a multi-year, inter-disciplinary project which examined the ever-changing nature of Indian society.

Parmesh’s first book Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India was released in 2008. His second book Queeristan: LGBTQ Inclusion in the Indian Workplace was released in 2020 and conferred with the CK Prahalad Prize for Best Business Book of 2021 and also with the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity for 2021.

Parmesh holds an MS in Comparative Media Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He is a TED Senior Fellow, a Yale World Fellow, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a board member of KHOJ International Artists’ Association, and Breakthrough.

Sessions

Day 2 - 7th October, Saturday @ The Niligir Library

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM

To Be or Not To Be: Gender & Identity

Apsara Reddy and Parmesh Shahani in conversation with Srilatha Batliwala.