• What are the mailing lists run by Sarai? How can I subscribe?

Sarai is deeply invested in the idea of fostering and being hospitable to conversation, debate and discussion. The Sarai website hosts a variety of active lists. You will find details about Sarai lists and how to subscribe to them on the website. But here are a few relevant urls and brief summaries of what the lists are about.

The ‘Reader-List’ is a popular list that discusses, media, urban culture, politics, often from a broadly South Asian perspective [to subscribe, go to https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list]. It is an active list with more than 1,100 members from all over the world and features regular postings by Sarai Independent Research Fellows.

The 'Deewan' list is dedicated to the discussion of media, urban culture and politics in Hindi. [to subscribe, go to https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/deewan].

The ‘Commons-Law’ list discusses Law an Society, Legal Theory, Intellectual Property, Human Rights. [to subscribe, go to https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/commons-law].

The ‘Urban Study Group’ list at Sarai discusses cities and urban culture from an inter-disciplinary theoretical perspective [to subscribe, go to https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/urbanstudygroup].

• Can I contribute my work to the Sarai website?

The Sarai website will occassionally exhibit online and digital work. Selections will be made by the media lab at Sarai. If you are interested in exhbiting your work on the Sarai website, send details and samples of your work to medialab@sarai.net

• Can Sarai exhibit my work?

We can sometimes host modest and low cost exhibitions of prints, photography and digital work that can be shown on a single computer. For details, and to discuss any work that you would like to show, contact the medialab@sarai.net. We cannot support any such proposal for exhibition at Sarai, or elsewhere, with funds.

• Can I display my work in the Interface Zone/contribute to the digital Interface?

Yes. Send a sample of your work attached to an email, to medialab@sarai.net

• Will Sarai provide me with performance space?

Yes. We are interested in the idea of people, especially younger people in the university, using the space around the Café counter in the basement at Sarai for small and informal performances. These can be - chamber theatre pieces, contemporary modern dance works involving a few performers and a modest audience, music (not at a high volume), open mike, poetry readings, salons, etc. The space is available subject to our schedule, and subject to how the proposed performance speaks to Sarai’s concerns and interests. We cannot support any such projects with funds. Write to outreach@sarai.net giving details of what you want to do and when you want it scheduled in order to schedule a discussion about the feasibility of your proposal.

• Can I put up notices at Sarai?

Sarai’s public access area has several boards on which non-commercial information can be posted.

•  What kinds of workshops does Sarai hold?

Sarai’s concerns, broadly, are media and the city. Our workshops tend to focus on these themes. Within this framework, we have conducted workshops in a range of areas: hyperlink writing, information politics, intellectual property, Indic computing, free software, media practices (including recent workshops on blogging, comic and zine production), urban narratives, etc. If you would like to know of our workshops and other public events in advance, subscribe to the newsletter or visit the calendar on our website. To participate in Sarai events and for detailed information about their schedule, call us or write to outreach@sarai.net