• 14 January 2004: Neighbourhood as Factor: The Economic Basis for Politicized Societies in East Delhi, by Solomon Benjamin, Independent Scholar

• 28 January 2004: Raj, Samaj or Pani, by Anupam Mishra, Gandhi Peace Foundation

• 27 January 2004: No-Collar: The Humane Workplaces of the New Economy and Their Hidden Costs, by Andrew Ross, Professor of American Studies, New York University

• 3 February 2004: Edgy Product, by Chris Csikszentmihalyi, MIT Media Lab

• 18 February 2004: Tenementality in Delhi: Sweepers and the Cultural Economy of Housing, by Omar Kutty, University of Chicago

• 27 February 2004: Launch of Sarai Reader 04: Crises Media

• 8 March 2004: Personal Data, and Surveillance - From Snooping to Social Sorting, David Lyon, Queen's University, Canada

• 30 July 2004: A Conversation on the Yamuna Pushta, facilitated by Diya Mehra and Lalit Batra.

• 27 October 2004: Universal Beach: Poetry Reading By Vivek Narayanan, Sarai-CSDS

• 2 December 2004: Ticketless Travel, or, 'Doctor, Patient Go Missing Despite Delhi Police's All Night Vigil': Sexuality, Urban Print Culture, and its Publics, by Sanjay Srivastav, Anthropologist, Visiting Fellow, CSDS.

• 9 December 2004: Film screening and discussion KOTLA WALKS: Performing Locality, directed by Sanjay Srivastav and Simon Wilmot

• 10 December 2004: Film screening and discussion WAY BACK HOME: directed by Supriyo Sen

• 13 December 2004: I Love My India: Stories For A City, by Avinash Veereraghavan, Independent Graphic Artist.