Networks and Local Presence
Sarai has collaborated on several processes with the Alternative Law Forum in Bangalore, Waag Society in Amsterdam, t0 Institute for new culture technologies in Vienna, and has active links with organizations and initiatives in São Paulo, Beirut, Bandung, Mexico City, Kolkata and Mumbai. Sarai has also been featured, for instance, as a collaborator in Documenta 11 and the Documenta 12 Magazine Projects in Kassel, Germany. However, despite these links it remains strongly located and embedded in the city of Delhi, evoking, by its hospitality to dissent, debate and new ideas and practices, the history and culture of the many sarais that dotted medieval Delhi (and whose traces are still apparent in many place names in Delhi).
The Sarai programme's close relationship to the city is evident in the activities of its research clusters, which attend, in different ways, to the ongoing transformation of the urban fabric of Delhi, the everyday realities of media and information processes in the city and especially through the activities of the Cybermohalla project
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