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Gay Bombay Talk Flyer PDF
Gay Bombay Talk Flyer PDF
High Like a Disco Jalebi: Gay Bombay and Beyond a talk and reading
With
Parmesh
Shahani,
TED
and
MIT
Futures
of
Entertainment
Fellow,
and
author
of
Gay
Bombay:
Globalization,
Love
and
(Be)Longing
in
Contemporary
India
(2008)
Parmesh
is
not
your
usual
academic.
He
runs
a
newly
formed
corporate
funded
ideas
lab
that
examines
the
nature
of
modernity
in
contemporary
India.
He
also
has
a
parallel
life
in
which
he
travels
all
over
India
as
Editor
at
Large
for
Verve,
Indias
leading
fashion
and
lifestyle
magazine,
and
tops
lists
like
2010
CNN
list
of
Mumbais
coolest
queers.
In
his
talk
(accompanied
by
feature
and
documentary
film
clips),
Parmesh
will
reflect
on
the
changes
taking
place
on
the
ground
for
LBGT
people
in
India,
set
against
the
context
of
the
larger
national
changes
that
the
country
is
going
through.
Drawing
on
his
ethnographic
research
within
an
online-offline
gay
community
in
the
city
of
Bombay,
Parmesh
will
mull
over
questions
of
identity,
community
and
the
national
imagination.
He
will
also
read
excerpts
from
his
book.
Tuesday
Nov
8,
2011.
Time:
2-3.30
pm.
Rome
Hall
Room
771
(801
22nd
Street
NW).
Co-sponsored
by
the
GW
English
Department
and
the
Womens
Studies
Program