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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