Parmesh Shahani is vice-president at Godrej Industries, a large Indian business group with revenues of $4.1 billion and interests in aerospace, agriculture, appliances, chemicals, property, construction, furniture, locks, engineering, infotech, and other sectors. At Godrej, Shahani heads the Godrej India Culture Lab, an experimental space where ideas about modernity and Indianness are explored. Godrej champions diversity and inclusion and has been prominent in supporting and promoting LGBT rights within its own operations and wider society....In a conversation with IHRB's Salil Tripathi at the Godrej campus in Vikhroli, Shahani talks about the importance of equality in the workplace and why Godrej Industries has been a leader in supporting the LGBT movement in India. He talks of the moral imperative as well as economic benefits to organisations that embrace inclusion and equality and urges other companies, in India and beyond, to be part of the change...