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Building the First Machine: TIFRAC and the Promise of Computing in Independent India, Lecture by Dwaipayan Banerjee
Dwaipayan Banerjee will deliver a lecture titled ‘Building the First Machine: TIFRAC and the Promise of Computing in Independent India’. Prathama Banerjee will be the discussant. It will be chaired by Ravi Sundaram. Date: Friday, October 23, 2026 Time: 8 PM IST Location: Online India produces world-class tech talent and Silicon Valley leaders, yet captures…
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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:…
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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.…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
