Godrej India Culture Lab

Performance politics: Not just a dance form, Lavani is a commentary on gender, caste, sex

Lavani has been represented problematically in most existing literature and cinema. To understand why, it might help to understand the politics that the dance associates itself with.

'Nawabs, Nudes and Noodles': Indian society, seen through 50 years of advertising

How has advertising in India changed over the past 50 years in India. Ambi Parameswaran offers an insight, in his new book — Nawabs, Nudes and Noodles

'Communitainment': How 'social media entertainment' is changing what we see

Professors Stuart Cunningham and David Craig tell us about their research on the phenomenon of 'communitainment'

India and MIT: How we became a technological force to reckon with

Prof Ross Bassett’s book, The Technological Indian, looks at Indian students at MIT from 1882 to 2000