What technologies are affecting your intimacy?
Geeta Patel
9 May 2017
Our Feminist Adda ‘What’s Sex Got To Do With It?’ panelist Geeta Patel writes about her book Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance in this blog.
Continue ReadingOnline Adda - #DigitalFeminism with Bishakha Datta and Paromita Vohra
Team Culture Lab
3 May 2017
We held a #DigitalFeminism twitter chat with Bishakha Datta of Point of View and Paromita Vohra of Agents of Ishq. Powerful observations were made on how the internet is changing feminism - from forming solidarity among women from across the world to developing innovative ways to fight online harassment. We compiled these tweets using Storify.
Continue ReadingThree ways to navigate the content trap
Team Culture Lab
18 April 2017
Businesses are looking at two things in today’s digital world: how to get and how to create a market for one’s product or service. At the Godrej India Culture Lab, master business strategist Bharat Anand shed light on how using siand not fall prey to The Content Trap, also the title of a book he’s authored.
In February 2017, the Godrej India Culture Lab hosted a special lecture by Bharat Anand which provided a new perspective on one of the key questions society faces: how to thrive instead of being destroyed by digital transformation.
Continue ReadingAn evening with the Make Love Not Porn founder
Team Culture Lab
11 April 2017
We hosted a star studded salon with the founder of Make Love Not Porn, Cindy Gallop at our Lab. Here are some insights from the evening!
Continue ReadingSeven things you didn't know about Nasir Husain
Akshay Manwani
3 April 2017
At our Filmy Funda, our speaker Akshay Manwani spoke about his book Music, Masti, Modernity: The Cinema of Nasir Husain. Here's some trivia about the autuer who played an important role in shaping commercial Hindi cinema as it exists today.
Continue ReadingKochi Biennale diaries
Team Culture Lab
6 February 2017
The Godrej India Culture Lab team spent a wonderful three days at the Kochi Biennale 2016. Three of us were experiencing it for the first time. This blog is a little travelogue of our experience.
Continue ReadingLab Head Parmesh Shahani selected as Senior TED fellow
Team Culture Lab
10 January 2017
We are excited to share that our Culture Lab head Parmesh Shahani has been announced as a TED Senior Fellow. Parmesh joins an illustrious group of inspiring individuals from around the world – 414 from 87 countries to be precise!
Continue ReadingPrivate Matters - an event report
Team Culture Lab
3 January 2017
For nearly six years, the Godrej India Culture Lab has been a keen observer of the cultural happenings in the country and what it means to be modern in India. One of its areas of focus has been the changing attitude towards homosexuality and transgender issues in India. Since 2011, the space has hosted numerous discussions and performances centred on the theme. You can check out a few of them here. On December 15, 2016, it turned its attention towards yet another pressing issue.
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