Sarai Reader 08:
Fear

Modernity once promised liberation from fear. We live amidst mobile populations, hidden terrors, financial tremors, and subtle uncertainties. From the air we breathe to the financial systems we trust, everything is threaded with disclaimers and doubts.

Sarai Reader 08 leans into this pervasive anxiety—tracking how floods, riots, and crises expose our fragile infrastructures and inner lives. It doesn’t seek comfort in certainty, but invites readers to reckon with what fear does to shared spaces, trust, and public life, and to ask how we might remain present, inventive, and resilient amid the quiet tremors that shape our collective psyche