A random selection of stuff I've worked on over the past couple of years - mostly words, but also some images, both still and moving.

Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India
My first book released in April 2008. Some excerpts (PDF): Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5.

Mahindra Universe
The corporate blog of the Mahindra group, which I kickstarted and helped establish the direction of in 2008.

C3@MIT
Website and blog of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT, which I helped start and worked for in 2005-2006.

Disco/Belonging (Powerpoint): September 2005
Presentation at 3rd Annual MIT LBGT Fall Retreat in Provicetown, MA.

Bollyspeak: An orality paradigm for the world's most popular art form and the proposition of a new global cinema theory (PDF File): December 2004
Class Paper.

Theatre of the Book: 1480 1880, by Julie Stone Peters (Powerpoint): October 2004
Class Presentation.

Between the Lines: April 2004
Organizer-curator of Boston's first South Asian LBGT film festival.

Holding On, Letting Go (PDF File): March 2004
Very short class Reaction Paper.

Designing the Novel An Ode to Lata (PDF File): March 2004
Author Interview – Class Assignment.

The Education Arcade
I worked on the games literacy aspect of this MIT research initiative between 2003-2004.

The Possibility of Love (PDF File): December 2003
Class Paper discussing love and the responsibilities and limitations of (pro)creation, with reference to the novels Frankestein and Galatea 2.2, and the film AI.

Triangulation (Movie File): October 2004
Short music video. (Collaboration with Brian Jacobson and Karen Schrier.)

Lovefool (Editorial)(PDF File): 2003
Freshlimesoda.com (1999-2003) was India's first youth expression website. I served as its Publisher, and sometimes, Editor.

Where is the Friend's Home? (2000)
A short Film Review on Freshlimesoda.

She's an Object, a Tool for Men (2000)
A Rant, on Freshlimesoda.

Limestock II and Fizzy Logic: The Freshlimesoda Experience: 2000
A mini-Woodstock kind of musical evening and a poetry reading/dance event, both organized as a part of the Kala Ghoda Festival of Bombay in 2000. Festival website.

Coming Soon...

Against All Odds (JPEG Scan): 1998
Elle interview with funny-guy Sajid Khan

Coming for the Trip (JPEG Scan): 1998
Elle feature on the rise of party drugs in urban India.

Tantra Times (JPEG Scan): 1997
Elle snippet.