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A brief overview of India's rapidly growing mobile scenario through a look at some of its companies, practices and research.
In addition, Ctrl+Alt+Del, India's first made for mobile film, will receive its Canadian Premiere as part of the Mobile Nation keynote presentation.
Un bref aperçu de la croissance rapide de l'environnement mobile de l'Inde grâce à l'observation de certaines de ses sociétés, de ses pratiques et de sa recherche. 
Parmesh Shahani is heading a new ideas incubation lab in Bombay, India, for Mahindra & Mahindra, one of India's largest business conglomerates, with a significant presence in key sectors of the Indian economy. He also serves as the India-based Research Affiliate for the Convergence Culture Consortium (C3) at MIT in Cambridge, USA, which he helped co-found in 2005. Mr. Shahani holds a Masters degree in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and two Bachelors degrees from the University of Mumbai. His previous work experiences include founding and managing India's first internet youth portal, Freshlimesoda.com, business development for Sony Entertainment Television, writing for Elle magazine and the Times of India newspaper, helping make a low-budget feature film and teaching as a visiting faculty member at a Bombay college. Mr. Shahani is the author of the forthcoming book Disco Jalebi: An Ethnography of Gay Bombay (Sage Publications, New Delhi, expected in Fall 2007) and his academic interests include glo-balization, media convergence, identity formation, online communities, fashion, youth culture, lifestyle, branding, South Asian pop culture and Bollywood cinema. He can be reached at parmesh@mit.edu |
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