[Reader-list] Announcing: The 2007 Sarai-CSDS Independent Fellowship Projects

[Vivek Narayanan]

SELECTED SARAI-CSDS INDEPENDENT FELLOWSHIP PROPOSALS: 2007
(list is alphabetical by last name; please enable Unicode on your 
computer to read the Devanagiri fonts)


Priya Babu, Chennai. Performance in the Aravani (Transgender) Community 
in Tamilnadu

Dwaipayan Banerjee, Delhi. Towards A Postcolonial Code

Smita Banerjee, Delhi. Cinematic City: A Study of 1950s and 1960s 
Popular Bangla Cinema

Julius Basaiawmoit & Renee C. Lulam, Shillong. The Changing Faces of 
Democratic Spaces in Urban Cosmopolitan Shillong

Mithun Narayan Bose, Kolkata. Tracing Life from the Stroke: Documenting 
the Rickshaw-Painting of Kolkata Streets

Pritham Chakravarty, Chennai. Urban Sabha Dramas

Arnab Chatterjee, Kolkata. Beyond Private and Public: New Perspectives 
on Personal and Personalist Social Work

Neelima Chauhan, Delhi: ब्लॉगित हिन्दी जाति का लिंकित मन: ब्लॉगों में हिन्दी 
हायपरटेक्स्ट का अध्ययन (“The Linked Mind of the Blogged Hindi Jati: A 
Hypertextual Study of Hindi Blogs”)

Raman Jit Singh Chima, Bangalore. The Regulation of the Internet by the 
Indian State through Legal Structures and Mechanisms

Burton Cleetus, Delhi. Urbanisation, Western Medicine and Modernity: The 
Rockefeller Foundation in Travancore

Ajit Kr. Dvivedi, Delhi. मीडिया की नज़र में सीलिंग बनाम पुश्ते का विस्थापन 
("Media Study: Comparative Reporting on Ceilings and Displacement from 
Jamuna Pushta”)

Anuja Ghoshalkar, Mumbai. Papa Aajoba.

Ranu Ghosh, Kolkata. The Changing Industrial Landscape of Kolkata: Jay 
Engineering Works

Sukanya Ghosh, Mumbai. Animation and the Development Ideal: The Idea of 
Nation, the Socialist Impetus and Animation Film Design in India

Rajeev Ranjan Giri, Delhi. सरस्वती की सार्वजनिक दुनिया (“The Public World 
of the Journal Saraswati, 1900-1920”)

M.S. Harilal, Thiruvananthapuram. Adopting Modernisation, Negotiating 
Modernisation: Modern and Traditional Ayurvedic Sectors in the Context 
of Transformation

Zaigham Imam, Delhi/Allahabad: सपनों की रेल (“Railways of Dreams”)

Santana Issar & Aditi Saraf, Delhi. Old Dog, New Tricks: Rethinking 
Animal Activism in an Urban Context

Vivek Kumar Jain, Delhi. दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय के रेहड़ी खोमचेवालों का ज़िन्दगीनामा 
(“A Study of Social and Cultural Spaces on the DU Campus”)

Deepak Kadyan, Delhi. Popular Musical Traditions and the Configuration 
of Jat Identity in Haryana

Ram Ganesh Kamatham, Bangalore. Vikram and Vetal: A Contemporary Urban Play

Shahnawaz Khan, Srinagar. Entertainment Ghosts in Srinagar: A Tale of 
Cinema Halls in the City

Arvind Kumar, Delhi. Caste Violence in Urban Maharashtra: A Study of the 
1974 Worli Riots and the Dalit Panthers Movement

Ramesh Kumar, Delhi. Film Exhibition Spaces in Delhi

Gyaltsen Lama, Gangtok, Sikkim. Shamans in the City: Research and 
Documentation for a Comic Book

Madhura Lokohare, Pune. Exploring the ‘Vartaphalak’ Culture in Pune City

Nalin Mathur, Delhi. B-Grade Engineering College Culture

Meena Menon, Mumbai. Recovering Lost Histories: Riot Victims and 
Communal Polarisation in Mumbai

Yateendra Mishra, Allahabad. आत्मीयता के इर्द - गिर्द अयोध्या ("The Intimate 
Ayodhya”)

Sayandeb Mukherjee, Hyderabad. Corridors: The Psycho-Acoustics of 
Corridor-Like Spaces

Shubhra Nagalia, Allahabad. Representation of Communal Riots in the 
Hindi Media: The Case of the Mau Riots

Sugata Nandi, Kolkata. Eventful Adolescence, Memorable Youth: The 
Politics of Personal Reminiscences in Kolkata, 1947-67

Gauri Paliwal, Indirapuram. क्योंकि हर ब्लॉग कुछ कहता है (“Because Every Blog 
Has Something to Say”)

Bipul Pande, Delhi. रेज़ीडेंस प्रूफ (“Proof Of Residence”)


Vijay Kumar Pandey, Meerut. मेरठ का प्रकाशन उद्योग (“The Publishing 
Industry of Meerut”)

Zubin Pastakia, Mumbai. A Photographic Study of Bombay’s Cinema Halls as 
a Cultural Experience of Space

Gopaljee Pradhan, Silchar. हिन्दी साहित्य में उत्तर -पूर्व (“The North-East in 
Hindi Literature”)

Alok Puranik, Delhi. बाज़ार -भाव रिपोर्टिंग उर्फ़ मिर्ची भड़की और सुस्त टाटा स्टील 
(“A Historical Study of Bazaar Reporting in Hindi Newspapers”)

Mohit Kumar Ray & Soma Ghosh, Kolkata. Heritage Ponds of Kolkata: A 
Contemporary History

P. Jenny Rowena & Carmel Christy, Hyderabad. ‘Where Some Autorickshaws 
Run, Others Burn’: Caste, Class and Gender in the Urban Space of Keralam.

Inder Salim, Delhi. Towards Maha-Performances.

Abhik Samanta, Kolkata. The Visual Art of the Gita Press

Surojit Sen, Chandannagar, Hooghly. Chandannagar and the Displacement of 
Prostitutes

Yoginder Sikand and Naseemur Rahman, Delhi. The Shaping of Muslim 
Identities and the Role of Muslim Publishing Houses in Delhi

Surya Prakash Upadhyay, Mumbai. Guru on the Air: Televised Hinduism in 
Contemporary India

Shiju Sam Varughese, Delhi. The Public Sphere as a Site of Knowledge 
Production: Negotiations Over Tremors, Well Collapses and Coloured Rains 
in the Malayalam Press

T. Venkat, Chennai. Building the Indian Dream: Living and Working 
Conditions of Migrant Workers on Chennai’s IT Corridor

Chitra Venkataramani, Mumbai. Hygiene and the City: A Graphic Novel

Shafia Wani, Srinagar. Aesthetics of Resistance and Women in Kashmir

Ranjan Yumnam, Imphal. Imphalwood: Digital Revolution and the Death of 
Celluloid

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Vivek Narayanan
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