Media
The work and activities of the Godrej India Culture Lab have drawn the attention of the media ever since our inception. Here is a selection of some of the coverage we’ve received. If you’re from the press and would like to visit our lab, attend some of our events, or would like specific images of certain events, please mail us on indiaculturelab@godrejinds.com
Business Today
Godrej Culture Lab is adding a dash of colour to offices with film screenings, pop up museums
The 121-year old Mumbai-based Godrej Group realised the need for a space in its headquarters that allows people to freely communicate and explore what it means to be modern and Indian. It was 2011 when they started Godrej Culture Lab as an attempt to create an alternative intellectual hub in Mu...1 March 2018
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Is Culture and Gender Equality in India Still a Far Cry?
With the idea to have a place that cross-pollinates conversations on contemporary India, the Godrej India Culture Lab invite experts from different silos at the culture lab - be it academia, business, creative industries like film, theatre, artists, policy or even activists - all of whom in the...28 February 2018
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Genderless fashion: Indian designers are changing the way we look at clothes
In January, at Queer Aesthetics Now!, a celebration of the LGBTQ community’s engagement with culture at the Godrej India Culture Lab in Mumbai, up-and-coming designers ventured answers via a garment installation each.27 February 2018
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Gender-Bending Fashion Defies Stereotypes At Mumbai Pride
Fashion has always been a community that embraces original ideas, regardless of gender. As part of a series of events to celebrate pride month, Godrej India Culture Lab (GICL) has organised Queer Aesthetics Now!18 January 2018
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AN UNDEFINED NARRATIVE
We join hands with Lakmé Fashion Week and Godrej India Culture Lab to spotlight India’s young designers who are blurring the boundaries of gender, and learn that they are questioning, recreating and producing an alternate vocabulary and imagery to make the industry more inclusive and diverse.13 January 2018
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THE TIME HAS COME FOR INDIA TO STOP MAKING CRIMINALS OF PEOPLE WHO LOVE EACH OTHER
In October 2017, India's Godrej Industries hosted the release of global corporate standards to support the business community in ending discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) people, at their Mumbai headquarters.10 January 2018
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LGBTQ Now: Why the Community Needs a Digital ‘Safe’ Space
To understand the progress and need for safe spaces for the LGBTQ community, a group of panellists, hailing from different Queer networks, assembled for an event at the Godrej India Culture Lab on Friday to discuss the myriad struggles, epiphanies, challenges and victories that mark the journey...10 January 2018
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A message of hope
January is an exciting month for Godrej India Culture Lab, as it’s part of QAM (Queer Azaadi Mumbai), and is hosting a couple of exciting events for Pride month. Through these events, India Culture Lab seeks to explore youth culture within the Indian LGBTQ movement. On January 12, they are stag...6 January 2018
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