Sarai Reader 02:
The Cities of Everyday Life

The second book in the ‘Sarai Reader’ series takes off from where the first book ends. This text argues to take the urban seriously. It begins by addressing a dearth of city-focused writing in South Asia, asserting that rapid globalisation has propelled urbanism to the forefront of cultural and scholarly discourses.

The book positions itself in response to this shift, emphasising the urgency of understanding the city not as backdrop, but as a contested space of infrastructure, media, memory, and power.