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Special Anniversary Edition, 2020 | ISBN: 9353884209
This was the first ethnography of gay life in contemporary India. It talked about the early age of the internet in the country and the creation of online-offline gay communities from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. The anniversary edition has chapters from leading global scholars about the continuing importance of the book, as well as an updated preface from the author. It has an interview as an afterword that talks about the path ahead for queer rights in India in the context of the recent Supreme Court judgement decriminalizing homosexuality.
1st Edition, 2008 | ISBN: 978-0761936480 | Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and Belonging in Contemporary India
Through a multi-sited ethnography in an online-offline community, Parmesh Shahani examines how Internet technologies, the media industry, audiences and broader socio-historical contexts shape gay identity in contemporary urban India. He realizes that the identity of a gay man in the community is negotiated on the stability of the idea of Indianness. For readers worldwide focused on India, Gay Bombay will serve as a memorable journey through various transitions in urban India.
Parmesh is Vice President at Godrej Industries Ltd. and the founder of the award-winning Godrej India Culture Lab (indiaculturelab.org). He is a passionate advocate for LGBTQ inclusion in corporate India and has guided many of the country’s leading companies on their inclusion journeys. He is a member of the FICCI task force on diversity and inclusion and a Khoj International Artists’ Association board member.
Parmesh holds an MS in Comparative Media Studies from MIT. He has been a TED Senior Fellow, a Yale World Fellow, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. His Twitter handle is @parmeshs, his Instagram handle is @parmeshshahani, and you can also find him on LinkedIn, and FB, and learn more about him on his website www.parmesh.net.
