Author, Digital Media Entrepreneur, Investor (Mumbai)

Parmesh Shahani's first book - Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India (New Delhi, London, Los Angeles, Singapore: Sage Publications) was released in April 2008. He is based in Mumbai where he serves as an Editor-at-Large forVerve magazine.

He is also affiliated with the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium, a think tank that explores how corporations can understand and profit from the changing media landscape. In the past, he has founded Freshlimesoda.com, India's first online youth magazine, and worked across the Indian media and corporate landscapes in digital media, venture capital and innovation at organizations like Elle, the Times of India group, Sony Entertainment Televisionand Mahindra.