media, information, the contemporary

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Events

  • Book discussion ‘Punjab Sounds: In and Beyond the Region’

    Book discussion of the edited volume, Punjab Sounds: In and Beyond the Region by Radha Kapuria and Vebhuti Duggal. The discussants will be Navkiran Natt, T. Brandon Evans, and Daljit Ami. It will be chaired by Ravikant. Date: Monday, April 13, 2026 Time: 4 pm Location: CSDS Seminar Room, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054 Punjab Sounds:…

  • Aaj Phir Jeene Ki Tamanna Hai: Lata Mangeshkar’s Voice and Female Bodies on Screen, lecture by Shikha Jhingan

    Shikha Jhingan will deliver a lecture titled ‘Aaj Phir Jeene Ki Tamanna Hai: Lata Mangeshkar’s Voice and Female Bodies on Screen’. The discussants will be Urmila Shripad Bhirdikar and Abhija Ghosh. It will be chaired by Vebhuti Duggal. Date: Friday, March 27, 2026 Time: 4 pm Location: CSDS Seminar Room, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054.…

  • Research Methods After the Digital: A Roundtable

    This roundtable will engage with the way in which the arrival and expansion of the digital has impacted research methods. It enters research methods after the digital by asking us to consider the relationship between social lives and media technologies from a vantage point that places the digital in a longer continuum of media. Thus,…

Features

  • The Search for Hassaina’s Song and Other Phonophanies, by Suvani Suri

    This work was conceptualised as part of a broader project called Capture All: A Sonic Investigation, initiated as a collaboration between Liquid Architecture and Sarai in the midst of the pandemic. In The Search for Hassaina’s Song and Other Phonophanies, Suvani Suri tunes into the audio archive of the Linguistic Survey of India, a colonial…

  • Sarai launched an online repository of its distributed research network

    Sarai is delighted to launch an online repository of its  Distributed Research Network. This repository collates information on various fellowships that Sarai has hosted over the years, including primary fellowship materials and holdings. Since 2000 onwards Sarai has supported Independent Fellowships, Student Stipendships, City as Studio fellows, FLOSS fellowships, Residencies, Social and Digital Media Fellowships,…

  • 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…