Mahanet

Mahanet is a term coined by Alok b. Nandi in 1998: it encapsulates his combined interests in:

• internet as a space, a scape, a place and
• India (“maha” – great or big; “bharata” – country).

For more  https://www.mahanet.in

 

___ 2026 ___

Mahanet is a term coined by Alok b. Nandi in 1998, proposing initially to explore the relations between narratives of South Asia – a.o. the Maha-[bharata] – with distributed stories, flowing à la [inter]-net.

In the years 2007-2008, the Mahanet focus went into radio chronicles about “book & India” for the IndeHebdo program in Paris. This series being discontinued, things went into pause mode. Here is Mahanet back, looking at Movements & Moments.

We are in 2026, and stories about South Asia are flowing, from film to food, from tech to travel, from hospitality to everyday experiences. Zillions of stories. At Mahanet, we are exploring the infra-narratives and the rasa-narratives, connecting the relational, the pluriversal, the infrastructural and navigating with and within distributed dimensions of narratives.

Everyone has stories. Mahanet is an interactive narrative design lab: IRL – in real life – sessions are exploring the narrative tension, tempo and temperature with diverse approaches, a.o. participative, performative, personal and/or plural – in one word: interactive.

Instantiations are taking form and shape with conversations, meetups, talks, adda, publications … Maha-works in process.