[Reader-list] 2006 Sarai-CSDS Independent Fellows

[vivek at sarai.net]

Happy New Year!  We're excited to announce this year's Sarai-CSDS
Independent Fellows, and we look forward to hearing more about their
upcoming explorations...

Vivek

The Sarai- CSDS Independent Fellows 2006


Arshad Amanullah, New Delhi
Journalism in Madrasas and Madrasas in Journalism

Daljit Ami, Chandigarh
Celluloid and Compact Disks in Punjab

Maitrey Bajpai, Mumbai
Cawnpore

Samit Basu, New Delhi
The Trousers of Time: Possible Futures of Indian Speculative Fiction in
English

Rudradeep Bhattacharjee, Mumbai
Freedom in Cyberspace in the Context of India: A video documentary

Tushar Bhor, Mumbai
Water Lenses: Prelude for a New Imagination for Urban Water in Mumbai

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Kolkata
Bishnupur Gharana: Story of a Forgotten Melody: Restoring the sound of
Bishnupur Gharana

Averee Chaurey, New Delhi
The Song of the Baul

Ayesha Sen Choudhury, Kolkata
Locating Sexuality Through the Eyes of Afghan and Burmese Refugee Women in
Delhi

Dilip D'Souza, Mumbai
Village in the city: Bombay in microcosm

Girindra
Pravasi Ilaqe mein telephone booth sanskriti
(The culture of telephone booths)

Uddipana Goswami, Guwahati
City as Setting: Reflections of the Changing Faces of Guwahati in Assamese
Literature

Peerzada Arshad Hamid, Anantnag
Exploring the Space of Psychiatric Hospitals in Srinagar

Rakshat Hooja, Jaipur
Urban Stakeholder Activism and the Role of Resident Welfare Associations

Farhana Ibrahim, Gurgaon
Maritime Histories: Merchant Networks and the Production of Locality in
Western India

Lakshmi IndraSimhan and Jacob Weinstein, New Delhi
Vending as Vernacular: Depicting Street Sales and Services through
Sequential Art

Brajesh Kumar Jha, Delhi
Hindi Cinemayee geet aur uska Bhashayee safar
(The Language Journeys of Hindi Cinema)

Anjali Jyoti, New Delhi
Home Street Home: A Street Child Survival Guide for Delhi

Sunandan K.N., New Delhi
Workshop Boys of Coimbatore: A Study of City and Tacit Knowledge

Akshaye Khanna, New Delhi
Apni Jagah, Zarah Hut Ke: A “Staged Ethnography” of Space and Sexuality

Naresh Kumar, New Delhi
Festival of Music in the City of Sports: Harballabh Sangeet Mela of Jalandhar

Prabhat Kumar, Delhi
Yuvak Sangh aur ‘Yuvak’: 1920 ke dashak mein Bihar ka bauddhik parivesh
(Yuvak Sangh and the ‘Yuvak’ magazine in the intellectual public sphere in
1920s Bihar)

Rajesh Kumar K, Trivandrum
An Ethnography of Teyyam Performance from a Practitioner’s Point of View

Udaykumar M, New Delhi
Unravelling a 'Real' Media Incident in Trivandrum

Mallica, New Delhi
Identities and Aspirations of Tibetan Youth in New Delhi

Mamta Mantri, Mumbai
Movie Theatres on and Around Maulana Shaukat Ali Road, Mumbai

Abhinandita Mathur Veenu Mathur, New Delhi
My building and the Shahar

Rajesh Mehar, Bangalore
Exploring Notions of Creative Ownership Among Contemporary Musicians

Kamal Kumar Mishra
Hindi Hridaysthali mein Jasoosi Upanyason va Inkey Paathakon ka Ek Samajik
Itihas
(A social history of detective novels and their readers in the Hindi
heartland)

Sanjeev Ranjan Mishra, Delhi
Gyan-vinimay ki nayi takneekein aur mel banate Dalit
(The New Technologies of Knowledge-flow and the Dalits)

Izhar Ahmed Nadeem, Delhi
Muslim Mahilaon ki Urdu Patrikayo ki Duniya
(Urdu Women's Magazines: Their impact on Muslim Women)

Veena Naregal,
Informal Economies and Cultural Patronage: Studying Bollywood

John Patrick Ojwando, Bangalore
An Exploration of the Experiences of Afro students in South Asia

Anil Pandey, NOIDA
 Desi Filmon ka Karobar
(An analysis of the desi films trade)

Piyush Pandey, Delhi
News Channelon ka Satyakathakaran
(The Satyakathaization of News Channels, on the compulsive crime reporting
on TV)

Rahul Pandita, Delhi
Byte Soldier: The Life and Times of a Metro TV Reporter: A Graphic Novel
in Hindi

Janice Erica Pariat, New Delhi
Writing the Notion of Home and Urban Space

Sudipta Paul, West Bengal
Response of the Labour Force to the Changing Urban Formation in the
Asansol Industrial Area, West Bengal

Dripta Piplai, New Delhi
The Hegemony of Calcutta Music Schools in Tagore Songs: Towards an
Archival Preservation of 'Multiple Traditions in Rabindrasangeet'

Vasundhara Prakash, New Delhi
15 Seconds of Fame: Extras in Bollywood

Nandita Raman
Dilli ke cinemagharon ka badalta swaroop: ek chhayachitraN
(The changing face of Delhi’s cinema halls)

Nithya V Raman, Chennai
Disaster Politics: An Examination of Tsunami Relief in Chennai

Kaushiki Rao, New Delhi
Transplanting the Urban Aesthetic in a Resettlement Colony in Delhi

Rama Rao
Ladkiyon ke College ka sarvajanik telephone aur ab har hath mein mobile
(Then and Now: The public telephone in girls’ colleges and the mobile phone)

Rinchin, Bhopal
Tracing the History of Girl's Education in a Small Town Through the Eyes
of its First Woman Teacher

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed, Chennai
Indian Print Media and its Reportage on Fatwas

Nirupama Sekhar and Sanjay Ramchandran, Mumbai
Urban Stories: A Collection of Graphic Essays on the City of Mumbai

Debjani Sengupta, New Delhi
Colony Fiction: Refugee Colonies and their Representation in
Post-Partition Kolkata

Aman Sethi, New Delhi
Seeking Alternative Ways and Means of Representing the “Poor and the
Oppressed” by Studying Informal Networks at Labour Mandis in Delhi

Ram Murthi Sharma, UNA, Himachal
An Analysis of Magazines in Braille

Parismita Singh, New Delhi
Babel in Humayunpur, the Gift of Difference: a Comic Book Exploring
Migrant Experience

Sidharth Srinivasan, New Delhi
A photoroman feature film: a Love Story Intertwined with the Myth and
Folklore of Delhi's Heritage Sites

Sheba Tejani, Mumbai
Queer Cityscapes: Exploring Mumbai Cityscapes through the Eyes of Two
Queer Women.

Mrityunjay Tripathi, Allahabad
Allahabad ki Chhatra Rajniti
(Student politics in Allahabad)

Indu Verma, Mumbai
Society and the Soap Factory

Aamit Rai, Wardha
Harsud aur media
(Harsud and the Media)

Syed Mohd. Yunus and Syed Mohd Faisal, Delhi
Asahay Mahanagar: Help Line karyakartaon ke najariye Se Dilli Shahar ka
Adhyayan
(Helpless City: A Study of Delhi from the Perspective of Help Line Workers)