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

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