Jatin Varma is a leading voice in India's pop culture space, an entrepreneur, creator‑economy mentor and architect of India’s fandom ecosystem. He founded Comic Con India and led its evolution from a comics convention into India’s largest pop-culture experiential platform spanning comics, gaming, cosplay and storytelling. Beyond events, he invests his time and vision into mentoring storytellers, building creative infrastructure and enabling platforms where fan‑driven narratives can flourish. In 2025, he transitioned into an advisory role at Comic Con India to focus on scaling impact across the culture‑economy.
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Taylor Swift has something most artists spend their whole lives trying to build: an emotionally literate fandom that knows what to do when the moment arrives.
Superheroes once dominated pop culture, but the fandom today has moved well beyond capes and masks. Jatin Varma, founder of Comic Con India, reflects on a key takeaway from the recent San Diego Comic-Con.
We are cultivating systems that reward repetition. In that model, new voices, especially those without marketing budgets or studio machines, get drowned out.
