‘Infra’ often means ‘below’ a threshold. Here, we engage in conversation or initiate the process, but the authorial impulse disperses and may not coalesce into a single entity. Our practice folds into other practices, developing a stream that converses while moving with its own momentum. The associative density these practices acquire over time remains unscripted.
A cursory glance at the ‘Sarai Readers’ (01 to 09), produced over ten years, shows how they attract authors and artists from across the globe—inner cities, insulated laboratories, hospital intensive care units, and the raging fields of protest. This accumulated layer of voices propels the world around us.
In Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies, technology takes the centre-stage as a multi-faceted constellation of ideas, images, reflections, debates, histories and provocations. The book reframes “technology” not as a distant expert domain but as a lived, contested field. It charts the series’ trajectory from its encounter with free‑software publics to urban infrastructures to ask how […]
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 […]
This inaugural volume in Sarai’s reader series explores the layered meanings of the Public Domain through interwoven dialogues, essays, and FAQs. It opens with email exchanges that challenge conventional notions of publicness—moving from physical spaces like bazaars and streets to digital commons and free software culture. Drawing on historical, legal, and vernacular understandings, the text […]
