Sarai: Digital Culture in Delhi
August 21st, 2009 | 
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Delhi has always been a fascinating place, as least as long as written history and human memory tells it, having attracted some of the greatest minds in the world. We have a fair share of artists, politicians, celebrities, and intellectuals currently living in Delhi, taking part in the enormous energy here. Delhi is a city of contradictions, where the old and the new can exist simultaneously, without any apparent clash. There are traditional cultures here, as well as extremely contemporary ones, like Sarai. Sarai is a project under the Center for the Study of Developing Societies, and is devoted to contemporary culture, especially as it relates to digital society generally speaking.
For Sarai, digital society needs redefinition in Delhi, where the experience of technology and culture are much more apparent if one allows television and radio into the equation, so that it is not something limited only to computers. However, computers certainly do play a part, and more so since Sarai began more than 10 years ago. It started with a meeting of five people who wanted to start speaking of critical culture: Ravi Vasudevan & Ravi Sundaram from CSDS, and Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula & Shuddhabrata Sengupta from the Raqs Media Collective joined heads and experiences and began to talk about what they might do. Inspired by the new waves of art and media distributed on the web and in independent circles, the idea grew that they could form a hub for information on digital cultures. Sarai continues today, and has grown in terms of the scope of projects, but has not lost any relevance in providing a unique place of inquiry in contemporary Delhi.
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