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Raghav Subramanian is LMG COO
MUMBAI: Lintas Media Group has appointed Raghav Subramanian as COO.
He will be joining LMG on 19 December.
At LMG, he will take on the mantle of running the media business of LMG working with LMG deputy CEO Sudha Natrajan, operating out of Delhi (Gurgaon). He will also be responsible for the Digital offering.
LMG chairperson and Lynn De Souza said, “I feel it will help greatly in taking LMG‘s product offering to meet the new age consumer‘s needs better. His vast experience in various facets of the complete media product, including Value Added Services, is what we were looking for, for a while.”
Subramanian added, “I am excited about this challenging new role. Lintas as a brand has enjoyed a great reputation and a pedigree lineage. It will be a delight to be part of the Lintas family.”
Natrajan added, “I am pleased to have a mind as seasoned and bright as Raghav, joining LMG. His being an old hat in the Delhi business circles, will propel new business initiatives too.”
Raghav comes in with over 20 years of experience in the business of media, consulting, analytics and research. He has spent a decade in New York, with GroupM, working on large worldwide clients. Post coming back to India a year and a half ago, he has headed Strategy across Vivaki Media Brands.
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Fringe festival finally hits Mumbai stage in March
60 plus shows from 10–15 March 2026 at NCPA plus Bandra venues.
MUMBAI: The Fringe is no longer on the fringe, it’s centre stage in Mumbai, ready to turn the city into a creative playground. After nearly 80 years of shaking up global performance culture from Edinburgh to Prague and Adelaide, the world’s largest open-access arts movement makes its India debut with the Mumbai Fringe Festival from 10 to 15 March 2026.
Kicking off at the iconic Tata Theatre, NCPA, the six-day celebration will spill across Bandra’s buzzing creative circuit, Khar Comedy Club, 3 Art House and indifferent @ Gharonda delivering nearly 60 performances in comedy, theatre, poetry, storytelling and experimental work. This isn’t a sit-down spectacle; it’s a city on the move, with audiences hopping between venues to catch new voices and bold ideas in their rawest form.
The lineup mixes homegrown stars with international heavyweights. Rohan Joshi, Kanan Gill, Varun Grover, Aakash Gupta, Priya Malik, Amandeep Khayal, Urooj Ashfaq and Amit Tandon bring the Indian edge, while global gems include Nigel Miles Thomas’s award-winning solo Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act, The Shakespeare Edit’s striking Macbeth adaptation and David Hoskin’s genre-blending Haunted House (mime, comedy, storytelling mash-up). True to Fringe spirit, the programme thrives on intimacy, invention and fearless creative risks.
Tickets are already live on Bookmyshow, with several shows sold out, signalling strong early buzz. Co-founders Steve Gove (of the 25-year-old Prague Fringe) and Simar Singh (UnErase Poetry) are steering the ship, united by the belief that Mumbai and India is primed for the Fringe model.
Steve Gove said, “Bringing Fringe to Mumbai has been a long-held dream. Cities around the world have embraced this model and watched it reshape their creative landscapes. Mumbai has the energy, the appetite and the talent to make this extraordinary.”
Simar Singh added, “The Fringe model gives artists complete freedom. It creates space for new voices and unexpected ideas to meet audiences directly. Mumbai deserves a platform like this.”
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society chief executive Tony Lankester chimed in, “Born in Scotland nearly 80 years ago, the Fringe has always stood for joy, openness and giving everyone a platform with minimal gatekeeping… We are delighted to see the Mumbai Fringe carry this same spirit forward.”
In a country bursting with artistic tradition, the Fringe’s arrival feels both overdue and electric, a chance for audiences to experience unfiltered, up-close performance that has quietly shaped modern theatre worldwide. Grab tickets on Bookmyshow before the best spots vanish. Mumbai’s creative margins just got a whole lot louder.
