Rahul Murdeshwar (IN)

Rahul Murdeshwar is a cultural researcher and strategist specialising in ethnography, cultural analysis and semiotics. At VibeLab, a global nightlife research and advocacy agency, he is Research Lead on the the ADE Nighttime Culture Index and has led the Nighttime Economy Report 2026, launched at the World Economic Forum. He also runs After EOD, an independent research platform and magazine on music culture in India, whose first major study examined how structural conditions in India’s live music market shape fan behaviour and expectations. He is contributing a chapter, “No Home To Return To: Hybridity, Self-Exoticisation and the Indian Electronic Underground”, to an upcoming book marking 30 years of Dis-Orienting Rhythms: The Politics of New Asian Dance Music. Rahul holds an MA in Semiotics from the University of Tartu, Estonia, and is a live electronic musician.