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PPHP Broadsheet #02: The Media Fabric of the Contemporary City
These research ventures constitute a series of micro histories which tell stories beyond their immediate subject. The media history of Delhi's localities is defined by mobilities of trade and of consumption, histories of displacement and…
Raj Comics for the Hard Headed
After 25 years of producing an entire galaxy of superheroes, Raj Comics is the largest comic book publishing house in India. They have published more than 5000 titles and are home to more than 20 characters. But, what is the world of Raj Comics? Who…
Sarai Reader 01: The Public Domain
The Sarai Reader (which is the first of what we hope will be more such collections) can be seen both as a navigation log of actual voyages and a map for possible journeys into a real and imagined territory that we have provisionally called the…
Sarai Reader 02: The Cities of Everyday Life
The Cities of Everyday Life carries within it an argument to take the urban seriously. In the context of India, where a large part of this reader has been edited, this is significant, given the frugality of writing on city life in this part of the…
Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies
Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies sets out to ratchet our engagement with the contemporary moment a notch higher, in directions that are sober, exhilarating and discomfiting, all at once... This collection seeks to bring to the fore a series of…
Sarai Reader 04: Crisis/Media
This book brings together media professionals, activists, critics, writers and scholars in order to create a dialogue between different kinds of approaches to the question of communication itself. It examines how popular culture and cinema…