Sarai Presentation @ roundtable 2008

1. The Sarai Programme Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) Delhi www.sarai.net

2. sarai सराय সরায় سرای or, beside a highway where travellers and caravans can find shelter, sustenance and companionship a place to rest in the middle of a journey a destination and a point of departure an enclosed space in a city a tavern - a meeting place - a public house

3. Language Hindi Language Resources Localization of FLOSS Software Hindi Lists and Publications Translation Archive dvd/vcd/cd/books/pamphlets documents/images/posters popular cultural materials Online Presence : Websites/Lists/Blogs/Online Archive/E Books Events : Conferences/Seminars/Workshops/Talks/Screenings Outreach : University & City Events/Informal Meetings Collaborations : Local/Regional/International Distributed Research Network : Fellowships and Stipends Sarai : Activities, Nodes and Processes Cybermohalla collaboration with ngo critical pedagogy locality media labs free & ‘social’ software working class spaces young people interpreting and imagining urban experience Continuing Research Information Society Surveillance/Censorship/ Information Politics Intellectual Property Piracy/Commons/Open Source Urban Environments Architecture/Zoning/Ecology/ Health/Labour Publics and Practices Cinema/Video/Music/Cable Viewership/Circulation/Distribution Production/Re-Production/Piracy Art & Media Projects Sarai Media Lab Raqs Media Collective Installations/Video Radio/Print/Web Residencies Publications Sarai Readers (English) Sarai.txt (English) Deewan-e-Sarai (Hindi) Media Nagar (Hindi) Cybermohalla Publications (Hindi and English)

4. Sarai-CSDS : Distributed Public Creativity Interdisciplinary Research Experimental Media Practice Contemporary Art Architecture for Public Knowledge Generation Archive Presentations Talks Screenings Publications Exhibitions Workshops Seminars Discussion Lists & Web Content

6. The Contemporary City Information and Society Media Histories and Practices Intellectual Property Language Technology, Politics & Culture Urban Environment Labour Open Source & Free Software Narratives of Everyday Life Oral History Cinema, TV, Radio, Performance, Music, Print, Internet Infrastructure Conflict & Violence Surveillance Popular Culture Sexuality Tactical Media Essays Design Comics Photography Law and Legality Typography The ‘New’ Economy Urban Childhood Leisure Sport Migration Experimental Media Forms Architecture Suburbs, Small Towns, Streets, Neighbourhoods Contemporary Art Cultures of Piracy

7. as a space to develop & reflect on different kinds of practice to experiment with new forms and methods as a space for inter-disciplinary flows as an archive as a platform for new publics and creative work as a safe space for free speech and critical discussion as a means to reflect on protocols of knowledge production All this becomes possible because of the new media tools How is Sarai seen?

8. Our Motivations A recognition of the need to address the crisis that afflicts academia, the media, and creative spaces due to : Absence of incentives for creative, experimental and independent forms of knowledge generation, research and creative practice Absence of structures conducive to inter-disciplinary thinking & work Absence of a dialogue between discourse and practice Absence of a public conversation around knowledge and creativity

9. Aligarh Vijayawada Udaipur Goa Distribution of Independent Research Fellowships

10. Delhi Srinagar Chandigarh Kolkata Ahmedabad Udaipur Shillong Chennai Madurai Bangalore Goa Mumbai SARAI Raipur Hyderabad Vijayawada Pune Jaipur Aligarh Shanghai Sydney Tokyo Dhaka Bandung Singapore Colombo Helsinki Hamburg Amsterdam London New York Los Angeles Mexico City Tehran Beirut Lahore Moscow Istanbul Vienna Taipei Sao Paulo Lagos Bangkok Kuala Lampur Melbourne Karachi Seoul Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai Dakar Tezpur Allahabad Chicago Johannesburg Exchanges on the Reader List transmit to a Global Network through Forwards, Replies, Other Lists etc.

11. Taran Khan’s Project ‘ Socialist Wives’ Documentary Video, Archival Research, Interviews, Oral History, Text, Performance

12. Images from Archive of Popular Islamic Devotional Posters Yousuf Saeed’s Research Project

13. Poster from the Archive on Bhojpuri Cinema Created by Lal Bahadur Ojha

14. Shahid Datawala’s Photographic Research Project on the Ambience of Cinema Spaces in Delhi

15. Posters Colleced by Indrani Majumder for her research on early film publicity materials in Kolkata