Category :(Announcements)

The Sarai Programme at CSDS invites applications for three positions centered around media research. The research agenda is historical and contemporary, archive based and ethnographic, and will traverse a variety of media, including radio, gramophone,

Category :(Lecture)

José Manuel Mendes delivered a lecture on ‘Media, citizenship and extreme events: the possibility of alternative grammars’ at CSDS on 28 October 2014. The lecture was chaired by Peter deSouza. In this lecture the complex and ambiguous.

Category :(Book Discussion)

A book discussion on ‘In the City, Out of Place: Nuisance, Pollution, and Dwelling in Delhi, c. 1850-2000’ authored by Awadhendra Sharan was held on 17 October 2014 at CSDS. The discussion was chaired by Shahid Amin.

Category :(Workshop)

The Sarai Programme of the CSDS co-organized and hosted the Delhi pre-event of hillhacks on 13 September 2014 at CSDS. The pre-event was a relaxed combination of demonstrations and discussions of all things relates to hacking, making, and living in.

Category :(Lecture)

Miriam Wenner delivered a talk on Contesting authority in Darjeeling: The politics of “Gorkhaland” on 15 September 2014 at CSDS. The talk was chaired by Prathama Banerjee. Movements for new Union States in India are often interpreted as..