The Fourteenth Edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest
Wednesday, October 25th to Sunday, October 29th 2023

Online : 25 - 26 Oct
On ground : 27 - 29 Oct

Parmesh Shahani

Author, India

Parmesh Shahani is an inclusion consultant and award winning author. He was Vice-President at Godrej Industries Ltd and head of the Godrej India Culture Lab, which he founded and ran between 2011-2021. He is the author of Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India and Queeristan: LGBTQ Inclusion in the Indian Workplace. The latter won the CK Prahalad Prize for Best Business Book of 2021 and the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity for 2021. Parmesh holds an MS in Comparative Media Studies from MIT. He holds several international fellowships. He is a board member of KHOJ International Artists’ Association, and Breakthrough.

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Sex Acts

  • 13th November
  • 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Updating India’s laws on sexuality
Madhavi Menon, Parmesh Shahani
Chair: Bishakha Datta

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