Research

Media City Sarai’s "Publics and Practices in the History of the Present" [PPHP] project attempts to map the interweaving histories of Delhi and its media technologies to understand how this interweaving provides new conditions for consumption practices and links to global economies in stratified circumstances of urban life.more... Emerging Urbanism Like Shanghai, Jakarta, Beirut and São Paulo, cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore are redefining what it means to be urban in the twenty-first century. The material fabric and everyday life of our cities are undergoing radical transformations, bringing with them new vectors of inequality and conflict, just as they open out new possibilities. Research on 'Emerging Urbanism' at Sarai will focus on this rapid transformation of the urban landscape. more... Knowledge and Culture Commons ALF and Sarai have come together on a cross-disciplinary collaborative research project "Intellectual property and the Knowledge/Culture Commons" as we recognize the central role that Intellectual Property laws play in the globalised 'Knowledge Economy', and that in the near future intellectual property will be one of the most significant sites of conflict over the production and control of knowledge and culture.more... Information Society The Information and Society Research Project at Sarai inaugurates a body of research, reflection and investigation on the different ways in which practices of information gathering, management and circulation impact on society in South Asia. Here, information is seen in its broadest sense as forms of knowledge and knowing as they play out in interaction with social and political processes, within realms defined by state as well as non-state actors. more...