Every year sarai provides stipendship to conduct research on the city Life. These stipendships are provided to post graduate researchers enrolled in different academic programmes across the country.

Apart from financial support, sarai conducts three workshops to discuss various aspects of

research, provide a platform to share ongoing study witha  wider community of urban researchers and practitioners and give critical inputs to help orient individual projects in better manner.

This year, 20 stipendships were provided to researchers who come from a wide range of disciplines and places. On 14-15th December 2007,they will be making public presentations on their nine months of research.

Programme:

Sarai, CSDS Student Stipendship Workshop

14-15 December 2007

Day I Friday, 14 December 2007

9.30-9.45 Tea

9.45-10.00 Introductory Remarks: Ravi Sundaram, Awadhendra Sharan and Sadan Jha

10.00-11.00 Spaces and Institutions of Commercial Life

Chair: Ipsita Sahu

Hijam Eskoni Devi, Manipur, “Relevance of Traditional Institution in

Urban Governance: A Case Study of Nupi Keithel, Imphal”

Discussant: Mayuri Samant

Sumalatha.B.S., Trivandrum, “Space for Brokering Branches in Kerala

Townships: A Casual Link with Urbanisation”

Discussant: Sreeja

Open Remarks

11.00-11.15 Tea Break

11.15-1.00 Music, Television and Theatres

Chair: Meera Baindur

Vineet Kumar, Delhi, "Niji Samachar Chennelon ki Bhashik Sanskriti:

Vishesh Sandarbh Aajtak”

Discussant: Priyanka Gupta

D.Karthikeyan, Chennai,“Music From The Margins: Gaana Songs As A

Subaltern Phenomenon”

Discussant: Sowjanya R.Peddi

Rohit Parkash, Patna, “Kalidas Rangalaya: Patna Ka Ek Sanskritik    

Kendra”

Discussant:Agniv Ghosh

Open Remarks

1.00—2.00 Lunch Break

2.00-3.30 Environment, Governance and Planning

Chair:Sreedeep

Geetanjoy Sahu, Bangalore, “Urban Environmental Governance”

Discussant: D.Karthikeyan

Sutapa Ghosh, Mumbai, “Modernist Planning”

Discussant: Hijam Eskoni Devi

Meera Baindur, Sreeja K.G. and Sowjanya R. Peddi, Bangalore, “The     

'Lake' As Urban Public Space”

Discussant: Kartik Nair

Open Remarks

3.30-3.45 Tea Break

3.45-5.00 Open Session (Observations and Suggestions for Further Improvement by Workshop Participants. Moderator: Sadan Jha).

Day II Saturday, 15 December 2007

10.00-11.00 Visual (In)Visible City

Chair: Kartik Nair

Priyanka Gupta, Kolkata, “Graffiti and Kolkatascape: A Discourse of

Conflicting Rights, Class and Citizenship”

Discussant: Bhavya Dore

Akhil Katyal, Delhi, “Queer Urban Culture(s): The Case of New Delhi”

Discussant: Vineet

Open Remarks

11.00-11.15 Tea Break

11.15-1.00 Caste in the Changing Urban Milieu

Chair: Vineet

Abhishek Kumar Gupta, Delhi, “Ganga Main Bahati Jindagi”

Discussant: Rohit Prakash

Mayuri Samant, Delhi, “Caste Violence in Urban Spaces: A Study of

Narratives”

Discussant: Sumalatha B.S.

Sangeeta Chandu Thosar, Pune, “Political Leadership of Women in Pune

City: A Dalit Feminist Study (1995-2007)”

Discussant: Geetanjoy Sahu

Open Remarks

1.00-2.00 Lunch Break

2.00-3.00 The Urban Reading Practices

Chair: Bhavya Dore

Sreedeep Bhattacharya, Delhi, “Pornography in Urban India: From Porn

Sphere to Mainstream”

Discussant: Akhil Katyal

Agniv Ghosh, Delhi, “Nababus and their New Calcutta”a

Open Remarks

3.00-3.15 Tea Break

3.15-4.15 Spectacle, Entertainment and the City Spaces

Chair: Akhil Katyal

Bhavya Dore and Kartik Nair, Delhi, “Appu Ghar: Amusing the City”

Discussant: Sreedeep

Ipsita Sahu, Delhi, “Gentrification in the Built Environment of

Ghaziabad: A Focus on Malls and Multiplexes”

Discussant: Meera Baindur

Open Remarks

4.15-4.45 Open Session (Observations and Suggestions for Further Improvement by Workshop Participants. Moderator: Sadan Jha).

4.45-5.00 Concluding Remarks: Ravi Sundaram.