The Independent Research Fellowships Programme at Sarai gives seed grants to researchers working in a diversity of locations and forms.

Each year we support a number of independent and often interdisciplinary projects. This is key to Sarai's design of a distributed research network. We see this as a foundation for a network of socially available, publicly accessible knowledge in contemporary cultural, intellectual and technological practice. Broadly, the fellowships supports work on the interface between popular culture, urban space and technological creativity. They engage with the creativity of the Indian street, its visual and sensory dynamism, its spirit of experimentation, improvisation and enterprise.