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Events

  • Sarai x Listening Academy | Public Sessions | 9th-15th December

    The Delhi chapter of the Listening Academy is anchored to the prompt of listening as writing, sonic fictioning, and rhetorical action – thinking relations between sound, voice, writing and language, and the ways in which the entanglements of these with mediatic landscapes contribute to forms of meaning-making. While writing is mostly understood as an act…

  • The Listening Academy Delhi

    Call for participation | The Listening Academy Delhi

    The Listening Academy Delhi Organised and facilitated by Brandon LaBelle, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay and Suvani Suri in collaboration with Sarai-CSDS Concept In her publication Resonant Alterities, literary and cultural theorist Sylvia Mieszkowski explores the literary articulations of aural phenomena and processes of hearing, which have been transported by (written) words. Through a study of specific fictional…

  • Call for Proposals: Researching the Digital: Digital Methods for Qualitative Research

    Proposals are invited for a collaborative one day masterclass, ‘Researching the Digital: Digital Methods for Qualitative Research‘ organised by University of Naples and CSDS, Delhi.

Features

  • Call for Internships | Sarai Programme Summer Interns 2025

    We are looking for summer interns to work with our material and/or document events. Over the years,  Sarai has built a rich archive of field notes, government reports, images, films and video footage, audio collections, film and trade periodicals, posters, comics and newspaper clippings through various initiatives, projects and fellowship programmes, such as Publics and Practices…

  • Bioscope Volume 15 Issue 1

    BioScope Volume 15 Issue 1, June 2024

    We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope vol. 15. no. 1. This issue of BioScope features essays, interviews, and translations that focus on phantasmatic remediations of celebrities and media platforms, language and music. Ishani Dey explores an intriguing relay between cinema and TikTok.  She presents two case studies to illustrate the ways in which cell…

  • Bioscope Issue 14(1) Cover Image

    BioScope Volume 14 Issue 1, June 2023

    We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope vol. 14. no. 1. The contributions to BioScope 14.1 place Indian cinema in the field of moral, reformist and democratic ideals, suggesting an enduring hold of a notion of the political on film journalism, spectatorship and star phenomenon. Ambili Anna Markose’s article charts the exceptional career of K.J.…