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Shekhar Krishnan

PhD Candidate
Program in the History and Anthropology of Science & Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Shekhar Krishnan is a doctoral candidate in the Program in Science Technology and Society (STS) at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) where he is researching the history of technology and the urban environment in Bombay and Western India from 1860-1950. For the past ten years he has been involved in urban research and community organising in Mumbai as a founding coordinator then associate director of PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research) and currently as a founding member of CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust). He is also a managing partner of Entropy Free LLC, a software consultancy which builds tools for digital humanities and geo-spatial web mapping.