Comet Media Foundation

The Comet's trail

In 1985 a year before Comet Halley appeared, a small group drew together to produce a series of films on the history of science and technology on the Indian subcontinent. Comet Halley's periodic appearances have seen different stages of development in science and society through the ages. Inspired by the associations with this clock of the centuries, the group called itself the Comet Project, and began work from an office in the Nehru Centre , Mumbai.

Later registered as the Comet Media Foundation this non-profit organisation has been producing communication materials on a range of development issues on themes related to education, environment, health, gender issues and the history of science .

The team at Comet has experimented with varied forms of media such as print publications, films, video, exhibitions, workshops, seminars,performances, sales and other live interactions .

Our objectives

• nurturing innovations
• creating awareness of alternative perspectives among those interested
• distributing knowledge to those looking at viable options
• building up an accessible resource bank of information on science and society issues

What we do

The entire set of interlaced activities that we are involved in have emerged and grown out of one another and could be portrayed as a three-panelled umbrella that makes up Comet as we know it at present: