Mahanet

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 narratives, flowing à la [inter]-net, a distributed network, a network of networks.

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 2026-27, 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.