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Tinker.Solder.Tap
We live in a tumultuous media environment. There is widespread confusion, uncertainty and awe at the inventiveness of the thousands of people in media networks who innovate, copy, tinker, recycle, produce, remix and relay. The protagonists of Tinker.Solder.Tap bring alive the ways in which the relationship between life and the media has been re-scripted in the various neighbourhoods of our cities. The story begins in the mid-80s, when a man returns home with an object called a VCR. The chain of effects that follows transforms irreversibly the social life of the neighbourhood and its reverberations can be felt all over the world.
TINKER.SOLDER.TAP: a graphic novel
Produced and Designed at the Sarai Media Lab
Text: Bhagwati Prasad
Graphics: Amitabh Kumar
Translation and Editing: Shveta Sarda
Additional Research: Rakesh Kumar Singh, Lokesh
Pencilling sequential comic pages: Raja Pocket Books (Raj Comics)
Design and Cover: Amitabh Kumar
Published by
The Sarai Programme
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054, India
Tel: (+91) 11 2394 2199 Fax: (+91) 11 2394 3450
Email: dak@sarai.net
www.sarai.net
Delhi 2009
Any part of this book may be reproduced in any form without the prior written permission
of the publishers for educational and non-commercial use. The authors and publishers
would, however, like to be informed.
This work is part of the project, “Social and Material Life of Media Piracy” of Sarai-CSDS
and Alternative Law Forum (Bangalore) supported by International Development Research
Centre (IDRC), Canada .
ISBN 9788190585316
Published by the Director, CSDS.
Printed by Impress, New Delhi