Alternative Law Forum (ALF) Bangalore
www.altlawforum.org

The Alternative Law Forum is a group of lawyers and legal researchers based in Bangalore active in the area of human rights law, advocacy, legal aid,  and research into various aspects of the interface between law and society. Sarai and ALF have ongoing collaborations in research on intellectual property law and contemporary culture.

Collaborative for the Advancement of Studies in Urbanism through Mixed-Media (CASUM-m), Bangalore

CASUM_m is a collective of urban researchers and architects based in Bangalore. CASUM_m members collaborate with Sarai on research issues pertaining to urban transformation.

Collective Research Initiatives Trust (CRIT), Mumbai
www.crit.org.in

CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust) is a group of architects, scholars, technicians and artists who have worked together over the past seven years in Mumbai. CRIT was established in early 2003 with the aim of undertaking research, pedagogy and intervention on urban spaces and contemporary cultural practices in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. CRIT regards this vast urban realm as its laboratory and terrain for articulating a collaborative and critical urbanism. CRIT's understanding of urbanism is based on the recognition that everyday exchange between disciplines and across sectors is the basic condition of metropolitan environments, and that collective research is essential to transforming urban spaces and civic life.

CRIT collaborates with Sarai on research, pedagogy and dialogues on urbanism and the transformation of city spaces.

A workshop, titled "METROLOG(UE):Discussions on Emerging Urbanism in India" was co-organised by Sarai and CRIT in Mumbai in December 2006. For details, go to http://www.metrologue.net

Indlinux, Delhi
http://www.indlinux.org

Indlinux is a network of free software programmers dedicated to the localization of free software in Indic languages and advocacy for free software in the Indian context. Sarai and the Indlinux group have collaborated on a number of localization initiatives, events, seminars and pedagogical projects.

Khetro, Kolkata
http://khetro.blogspot.com

Khetro is a Kolkata based initiative to foster an open space for cross-disciplinary dialogue and for the implementation of innovative ideas that will explore, exchange and implement within the domains of community culture, old and new media, and ecological existence.
Khetro and Sarai collaborate on the publication of a collaborative broadsheet, events and translation activities.

V.V.Giri National Labour Institute, (VVGNLI) NOIDA
www.indialabourarchives.org

The V.V, Giri National Labour Institute is an institute dedicated to research in labour history and building an archive of the working class and the labour movement in India. Sarai has collaborated with NLI in building an online archive of labour in India <www.indialabourarchives.org>

t0 (Netbase - Institute for New Culture Technologies)
http://www.netbase.org/t0/?preflang=en

t0/Netbase is a Vienna based initiative that produces interdisciplinary research and practice on the interface between new media, technology, culture and politics. t0/Netbase and Sarai have collaborated on the World Information City Festival at Bangalore <http://world-information.org/wio/program/bangalore>, in November 2005. People from Sarai have participated in seminars and events produced by t0/Netbase in Vienna on several occasions.

Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam
http://www.networkcultures.org/portal/

The Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, set up in 2004 is dedicated to researching internet and new media based networks. Sarai has collaborated with the production of 'Incommunicado' <http://www.incommunicado.info/>  a working conference on information technology in June 2005

Delhi Film Archive
http://www.delhifilmarchive.org/

The Delhi Film Archive grew out of the 'Films for Freedom' campaign against censorship by independent and documentary filmmakers. Currently, the DFA is a lnetwork of Delhi based filmmakers and film enthusiasts, with a special focus on documentary, short and experimental film culture. Sarai and DFA have collaborated on seminars and screenings on censorship, freedom of expression and documentary & independent film.

See report on 'Free Speech and Fearless Listening: The Encounter with Censorship in South Asia'

Department of History, University of Delhi
http://www.du.ac.in/show_department.html?department_id=History

Sarai and the Department of History, Delhi University have collaborated on an interdisciplinary seminar on the history of Delhi in February 2006. Faculty and students of the Department of History, Delhi University are frequent visitors to seminars and conversations at Sarai

School of Planning & Architecture, Delhi
http://www.spa.ernet.in/

Sarai-CSDS and the School of Planning & Architecture, Delhi have collaborated on an interdisciplinary seminar on 'Emerging Urbanism' in 2004. Sarai is engaged in dialogues on architectural pedagogy with the SPA, Delhi

Digi Arts, UNESCO
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php URL_ID=1391&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

The Digi Arts Portal and Network of UNESCO supports initiatives and projects aimed at fostering international dialogue and exchange on digital and new media arts. Sarai and Digi Arts, UNESCO have collaborated on an International Colloquium on New Media, Digital and Electronic Arts in the Asia Pacific Region in December 2003

Media, Performance and Identity Research Circle, University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/mpi/

Sarai CSDS and the Media Performance and Identity Research Circle, University of Wisconsin-Madison have collaborated on an international inter-disciplinary colloquium on contemporary culture titled 'Portable Cultures' in Delhi, 2000