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Fellowships


  • Student Stipendship Fellows

    Sarai annually supported approximately 20 young research scholars through a short-term studentship to facilitate research on urban life in South Asia.   2002-2003 Anand Vivek Taneja- An Archeology of Memory J. Indira- Labouring in the City: Dalit Women in Demeaning Occupations Jabir Ali- Waste Utilization and Management of Slaughterhouses in the Metropolitan City of Delhi…

  • Independent Fellowship Programme – Report 2005- 2006

    Sarai Independent Fellowship workshop 2006 This August saw the return of the Independent Fellows to Sarai for their final presentations. This year there were almost 50 presentations over a hectic four days of intense and lively debate and discussion. Projects presented were extremely varied, both in terms of areas of research, as also modes of…

  • Independent Fellowship Programme – Report 2004-05

     Independent Fellowship Workshop 24-27 August 2005, Sarai-CSDS August saw the return of the Independent Fellows to Sarai for their final presentations. This year there were almost 50 presentations over a hectic four days of intense and lively discussion. Projects presented were extremely varied, both in terms of areas of research, as also modes of rendition.…

  • Independent Fellowship Programme – Report 2003-04

    Sarai-CSDS Independent Fellowships Workshop August 26-28, 2004 The Independent Research fellowships are key to Sarai’s design of a distributed research network. Each year the fellowships support researchers working on the interface between popular culture, urban space and technological creativity. We see this as a foundation for a network of socially available, publicly accessible knowledge about…

  • Independent Fellowship Programme – Call for Proposals 2001-02

    The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi Sarai is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. CSDS is one of India’s best known research centres, with traditions of dissent and a commitment to the work of the public intellectual going back four decades. The Sarai…

  • Independent Fellowship Programme – Call for Proposals 2006-07

    The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi Sarai is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. CSDS is one of India’s best known research centres, with traditions of dissent and a commitment to the work of the public intellectual going back four decades. The Sarai…

  • Independent Fellowship Programme – Call for Proposals 2004-2005

    The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi Sarai is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. CSDS is one of India’s best known research centres, with traditions of dissent and a commitment to the work of the public intellectual going back four decades. The Sarai…

  • Independent Fellowship Programme – Call for Proposals 2003-2004

    The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi Sarai is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. CSDS is one of India’s best known research centres, with traditions of dissent and a commitment to the work of the public intellectual going back four decades. The Sarai…

  • Independent Fellowship Programme – Call for Proposals 2002-2003

    The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi Sarai is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. CSDS is one of India’s best known research centres, with traditions of dissent and a commitment to the work of the public intellectual going back four decades. The Sarai…

  • Culture, Conflict and Cyberspace: Towards a Bodo Digital Identity

    The Death Valley (2012) is a multilingual short film by Rajiv Saikia that aims to capture the 2012 ethnic conflict between the Bodos and Muslims, highlighting how innocent civilians from both sides are caught in the crossfire. This fictional account tells the story of a Bodo man and a Muslim man who are on friendly terms. Their peaceful existence is disrupted when ethnic conflict erupts. The Bodo man is chased by a group of Muslim men before being brutally murdered while his Muslim friend is killed as he tries to save him. Afterwards, the women of the two families leave with their children because of the unsafe environment…