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For the savvy world traveler looking for the perfect five-star hotel, Delhi has something amazing to offer.  Our hotels provide for an exceptional experience in a very exceptional city, and the luxury accommodations we offer will make for an enormously pleasant journey.  Delhi is the perfect place to enjoy lodging that sets the standard for the industry, with a sumptuous combination of old world hospitality and new world innovation.  There are excellent meals here prepared by world-class chefs, specializing in local and fusion cuisines, that will please every member of the family.  We offer excellent exercise facilities to help balance body and mind, and keep you refreshed for sight-seeing around this amazing city.  There are also many other extra amenities that are designed to make your experience here unforgettable.

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.

Five-star Amsterdam hotels offer the finest lodgings available for travelers visiting this fascinating city.  Long histories of commerce and trade make it one of the most hospitable places in all of Europe, giving it a reputation for gracious and charming reception of visitors from all over the world.  What distinguishes our hotels from the rest of the local accommodations are the careful attention to fine details, along with the usual attention to meet the highest standards in the hotel industry.  Guests can expect excellence in dining, exercise facilities, connectivity, and in-room entertainments, along with a host of other exceptional details that will make a stay here unique and memorable.  Amsterdam has a lot to offer visitors, and there are a multitude of activities that will keep every member of the family happy.

One of the more interesting aspects of Amsterdam is, of course, its openness to alternative culture.  There are many manifestations of this that are visible throughout the city, along with a great deal of attention given to civic-minded actions and activities.  This has helped to make it one of the more exciting cities to live, attracting young people from all over the world.  Perhaps one of the most interesting new developments along these lines is the evolution of digital culture in Amsterdam.  In recent years, digital cultures have been springing up all over the world, and the possibilities for organization, information, and art are just being explored.  One of these new explorations is a group called DDS, De Digitale Stad.

DDS translates to “The Digital City,” and it’s certainly an apt metaphor for this organization.  Organization is perhaps not the best word, as there is a concentrated effort toward remaining loosely connected, to allow participants to organize themselves.  Since its inception in the mid-nineties, it has become an independent foundation, and serves as a hub for web activists and artists to gather and share information and resources.  DDS also participates in organizing public and virtual discussions about the possibilities for digital cultures to continue emerging and growing.  It’s a very ambitious enterprise, and one that has strength from both the visionary mission and the technological experience of its founders.