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Sarai Reader



There is this intreseting reader that was produced. It was released on Sarai
opening. The reader has articles and essays on various topics including free software and software industry. Below is table of content of the reader. You can contact me at supreet@xxxxxxxxx if you wanna buy it. Its available at 150 and 50 Rs. students discount. The reader is also available in pdf form on sarai site
www.sarai.net




ENTERING THE PUBLIC DOMAIN - viii                                        
 dak@xxxxxxxxx: Discussing the Public Domain - 1
 Quotes: Dipesh Chakrabarty/Sudipta Kaviraj - 10 
 Martin Chautari in Kathmandu: Ideas unlimited and thoughts unrestrained - 
C.K. Lal - 12 
  Frequently Asked Questions about the Public Domain - Erik Kluitenberg - 17 
 The Topoi of E Space: Global cities and global value chains - Saskia Sassen - 24 

 CLAIMING THE CITY - 33 
 Quotes: Partha Chatterjee/Ashis Nandy - 34 
 CityScapes - Awadhendra Sharan - 38 
 Dislocating Delhi: A city in the 1990s - Aditya Nigam - 40 
 Post Colonial Towns Called Deoria - Shahid Amin - 47 
 'Our' Media City - Jeebesh Bagchi + Ravi Sundaram
OLD MEDIA/NEW MEDIA: ONGOING HISTORIES - 55 
 An Imperfect Public: Cinema and citizenship in the 'third world' - Ravi S. Vasudevan -
                                         57 
 On Mushtaq Gazdar's 'History of Pakistani Cinema' - Rehan Ansari - 69 
 Who's Afraid of Radio in India? - Frederick Noronha - 72 
 FM Radio and the New Urban Public in Nepal - Pratyoush Onta - 76 
 The 'Daily' Reality of Partition: Politics in newsprint, in 1940s Kanpur - Saumya Gupta
                                         - 80 
  The ABC of Tactical Media - David Garcia + Geert Lovink - 90 
  Recycling Modernity: Pirate electronic cultures in India - Ravi Sundaram - 93
  New Media: A users guide - Lev Manovich - 100
 INTERNET INTERVENTIONS - 109 
 The Rise and Fall of Dotcom.mania: Cyberculture in the Internet economy - Geert Lovink - 110 
 Internet Nation: The case of cyber Yugoslavia - Tomislav Longinovic - 117 
 On Search Engines - Matthew Fuller - 123 
 Stop Big Brothers! - Supreet Sethi - 125 
 A Chronology of Media and the State (in India) - Jeebesh Bagchi - 127 
 Policing the Net: The dangers of India's new IT Act - Siddharth Varadarajan - 133 
 Re: Covert Censorship (letter) - Seema Kazi - 135 
 Hindi Web World: Tentative steps in an optimistic direction - Ravi Kant - 136 
 Why Activists Cannot Afford to Neglect the Internet - Arun Mehta - 140 
WETWARE: BODIES IN THE DIGITAL DOMAIN - 147 
 Touch: Wetware, Ubicom and Nanotech - Julianne Pierce - 148 
 New Maps & Old Territories: A dialogue between Yagnavalkya and Gargi in Cyberia - Monica Narula + Shuddhabrata Sengupta - 152 
 On the Shopfloor: A personal account of work in the IT industry: India - Joy
                                         Chatterjee - 159 
 South Asian Workers in Silicon Valley: An account of work in the IT industry: U.S.A. -
                                         Raj Jayadev - 169
  Bodyshopping - A Story: An account of an emigre Indian programmer in America -
                                         171 
                                         
Entry Permitted/Access Denied - Ruchika Agarwal - 174

 'FREE AS IN FREEDOM': SOFTWARE AS CULTURE - 175
 Why Software Should Not Have Owners - Richard Stallman - 176 
 What Is Copyleft? - 181 
 Some Confusing/Loaded Words + Phrases (that are worth avoiding) - 182 
 Piracy is Your Friend - Jaron Lanier - 185 
 www.freeradio.org - 187
Interview with Stallman - 188 
 The Hacker's Ethic - 190 
 The Hacker Anti Defamation League - 191 
 Free Science Campaign - 192 
 The Free Music Philosophy (v 1.4) - Ram Samudrala - 194
 Free Software as Collaborative Text - Florian Cramer - 199
 Cooking Pot Markets: Gift Economy - Rishabh Iyer Ghosh - 207
 On hacking, free software, etc. - 222 
 Fire, Work With Me - L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg - 225 
 Copyrighting Fire! - Ian Clarke - 227 
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 The Manifesto of January 3, 2000 - Bruce Sterling - 229
 The Net and the Web - Hakim Bey - 233
 How Sarai Happened - 240 
 Aims & Objectives of Sarai - 241 
 About SONM & CSDS Ð 242 
 Notes on Contributors - 243 
 Acknowledgments - 246