Net Chakra 3.0: 30 Years of the Internet in India

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Digital Empowerment Foundation

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Dec 26, 2025, 7:24:54 PM12/26/25
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Dear Colleagues and Community Members,

Announcement | Call for Chapters

In 2025, India marks 30 years since the Internet became publicly available. Over these decades, the Internet in India has transformed from an early vision of a public good into mobile- and app-driven ecosystems that shape access, participation, and power online. Yet digital access and inclusion remain deeply unequal shaped by gender, geography, disability, caste, class, and language.

Net Chakra 3.0: 30 Years of the Internet in India responds to the urgent need to localise Internet discourses by grounding them in India’s socio-economic, linguistic, and cultural contexts. This forthcoming edited volume will critically examine the histories, present realities, and possible futures of the Internet in India, centering diverse and lived digital experiences.

We invite original, unpublished contributions in the following formats:

Submission Formats

  • Research-based chapters: 1,500–3,000 words
  • Visual contributions: photo essays, illustrations, comics

Photo essays: 5–10 images accompanied by 500–1,000 words

Submissions are encouraged to:

  • Draw on feminist frameworks, non-Western epistemologies, and participatory methods
  • Critically engage with intersecting inequalities (gender, caste, class, language, disability, geography)
  • Be analytically strong while remaining accessible to a broad audience

Note: The use of AI-generated content is discouraged.

The volume is edited by the Digital Empowerment Foundation and published by the Centre for Development Policy and Practice, and all submissions will go through an editorial review process. Honorarium will be provided to selected contributors.

Submission Requirements

  • Abstract: 200–250 words
  • Author bio: 100 words + mugshot

Key Dates

  • Abstract submission deadline: 16 January 2026
  • Selection notification: 20 February 2026
  • Final submissions due: 20 April 2026

How to Submit:

Please email your abstract and author details to: mai...@defindia.org and in...@defindia.org with subject line: Abstract Submission: Net Chakra 3.0: 30 Years of the Internet in India

Full Call for Chapters: Click here

For updates, visit: https://netchakra.net/

We encourage scholars, practitioners, artists, activists, and community researchers to submit and help shape a grounded, inclusive conversation on India’s digital pasts, presents, and futures.

Warm Regards,

Team Net Chakra 3.0

Digital Empowerment Foundation

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