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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…
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…
Contested Commons / Trespassing Publics: A Public Record
The conference, held in Delhi from 6-8 January 2005, brought together some of the leading minds on the subject from all over the world, and from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds – law, anthropology, media theory and history, economics,…
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 05: Bare Acts
This year, the Reader looks at ‘Acts’ – at instruments of legislation, at things within and outside the law, and at ‘acts’ – as different ways of ‘doing’ things in society and culture. Several essays echo and complement themes that…
Sarai Reader 06: Turbulence
If there were ever to be a ‘weather report’ for our times, an audit of the climate in which we have grown accustomed to live, it would use the word ‘turbulence’ often. We inhabit the vortex of storms, and smell sunshine. We are always…
The Water Cookbook
The Water Cookbook presents ideas from the Sarai project on peri-urban sustainability in Ghaziabad, India. It is a short graphic novel combining pictures with brief stories from daily life in the city.More: http://sarai.net/the-water-cookbook/
Tinker.Solder.Tap: A Graphic Novel
The protagonists of Tinker.Solder.Tap bring alive the ways in which the relationship between life and the media has been re-scripted in the various neighbourhoods of our cities. The story begins in the mid-80s, when a man returns home with an object…