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IndiaMART’s Dinesh Gulati joins DigiBoxx India’s board of directors
Mumbai: DigiBoxx, a made-in-India storage-as-a-service platform, is pleased to announce that Dinesh Gulati, chief operating officer at IndiaMART, has been appointed to serve on the company’s board of directors (the “Board”), effective 1 January 2024.
Dinesh is an established business leader who has played a pivotal role in transforming the telecom and online commerce businesses in the country. With his vision to make doing business easy, Dinesh has been one of the key leaders in the industry, involved in continuous innovation and digital transformation for businesses. His disruptive outlook and astute decision-making have not only made IndiaMART a one-stop expert solution, serving more than 100 million customers but has also unlocked huge value for all the stakeholders.
Before joining IndiaMART, Dinesh served as the group president at Indian Express, managing the entire operations and revenue streams. With a vast entrepreneurship experience spanning over 22 years, he has also worked with leading brands like Airtel, Reliance Communications, and Eastman Kodak in key roles.
“Dinesh is an exceptional industry leader, intrapreneur, and an investor and we are excited to welcome him to the Board,” said DigiBoxx founder and CEO Arnab Mitra. “Dinesh’s insights and experience will be an additional force to serve the Company well as we continue advancing our footprint as a world-class IT platform for both our enterprise and individual users, offering exceptional, frictionless, and seamless experiences while increasing efficiencies. We look forward to leaning on Dinesh’s experience in our journey to reshape and reimagine the way we provide services to our clients.”
“I’m excited to join DigiBoxx as a director at this juncture of their growth and to have the opportunity to work with a talented group of thought leaders,” said Dinesh. “I look forward to serving on the board of DigiBoxx and helping to take it to the next level of its digital and transformational journey.”
A management postgraduate from FMS Delhi with a bachelor’s degree in technology from HBTI Kanpur, Dinesh’s interests include reading, travelling and trekking.
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Content India 2026 opens with a copro pitch, a spice evangelist and a £10,000 prize for Indian storytelling
Dish TV and C21Media’s three-day summit puts seven ambitious projects before an international jury, and two walk away with serious development money
MUMBAI: India’s content industry gathered in Mumbai this March for Content India 2026, a three-day summit organised by Dish TV in partnership with C21Media, and it wasted no time making a statement. The event opened with a Copro Pitch that put seven scripted and unscripted television concepts before an international panel of judges, and by the end of it, two projects had walked away with £10,000 each in marketing prize money from C21Media to support development and international promotion.
The jury, comprising Frank Spotnitz, Fiona Campbell, Rashmi Bajpai, Bal Samra and Rachel Glaister, evaluated a shortlist that ranged from a dark Mumbai comedy-drama about mental health (Dirty Minds, created by Sundar Aaron) to a Delhi coming-of-age mystery (Djinn Patrol, by Neha Sharma and Kilian Irwin), a techno-thriller about a teenage gaming prodigy (Kanpur X Satori, by Suchita Bhatia), an investigative crime drama blending mythology and modern thriller (The Age of Kali, by Shivani Bhatija), a documentary on India’s spice heritage (The Masala Quest, hosted by Sarina Kamini), a documentary on competitive gaming (Respawn: India’s Esports Revolution, by George Mangala Thomas and Sangram Mawari), and a reality-horror competition merging gaming and immersive fear (Scary Goose, by Samar Iqbal).
The session was hosted by Mayank Shekhar.
The two winners were Djinn Patrol, backed by Miura Kite, formerly of Participant Media and known for Chinatown and Keep Sweet: Pray & Obey, with Jaya Entertainment, producers of Real Kashmir Football Club, also attached; and The Masala Quest, created and hosted by Sarina Kamini, an Indian-Australian cook, author and self-described “spice evangelist.”
The summit also unveiled the Content India Trends Report, whose findings made for bracing reading. Daoud Jackson, senior analyst at OMDIA, set the tone: “By 2030, online video in India will nearly double the revenue of traditional TV, becoming the main driver of growth.” He noted that in 2025, India produced a quarter of all YouTube videos globally, overtaking the United States, while Indians collectively spend 117 years daily on YouTube and 72 years on Instagram. Traditional subscription TV is declining as free TV and connected TV gain ground, forcing broadcasters to innovate. “AI-generated content is just 2 per cent of engagement,” Jackson added, “highlighting the dominance of high-quality human content. The key for Indian media companies is scaling while monetising effectively from day one.”
Hannah Walsh, principal analyst at Ampere Analysis, added hard numbers to the picture. India produced over 24,000 titles in January 2026 alone, with 19,000 available internationally. The country now accounts for 12 per cent of Asia-Pacific content spend, up from 8 per cent in 2021, outpacing both Japan and China. Key exporters include JioStar, Zee Entertainment, Sony India, Amazon and Netflix, delivering over 7,500 Indian-produced titles abroad each year. The top importing markets are Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, the United States and the Philippines. Scripted content dominates globally at 88 per cent, with crime dramas and children’s and family titles performing particularly strongly.
Manoj Dobhal, chief executive and executive director of Dish TV India, framed the summit’s ambition squarely. “Stories don’t need translation. They need a platform, discovery, and reach, local or global,” he said. “India produces more movies than any country, our streaming platforms compete globally, and our tech and creators win international awards. Yet fragmentation slows growth. Producers, platforms, and tech move in different lanes. We need shared spaces, collaboration, and an ecosystem where ideas, technology, and people meet. That is why we built Content India.”
The data, the pitches and the prize money all pointed to the same conclusion: India is not waiting for the world to discover its stories. It is building the infrastructure to sell them.
