Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Sarai -- A 4th Anniversary Celebration"

1. Evening, February 27, 2004, Friday, 6:30 pm

"What is it that Flows Between Us : Stories From Shadow Cities" -- a spoken
word performance by the practitioners of the Cybermohalla 'Compughar' Media
Labs at Lok Nayak Jay Prakash Basti, Ajmeri Gate, and the Dakshinpuri Colony,
Ambedkar Nagar. The performance is based on texts written by the Cybermohalla
practitioners.
-- In collaboration with Ankur -- Society for Alternatives in Education

Sarai Interface Zone, Basement -- CSDS New Building2. Afternoon, February 28, 2004, Saturday, 3:00 pm

This Year/This City

A public conversation between activists, media practitioners, researchers and
concerned citizens on how they have witnessed Delhi in 2003-2004, to be
followed by an open discussion.

Sarai Interface Zone, Basement -- CSDS New Building

3. Evening, February 28, 2004, Saturday

LAUNCH OF SARAI READER 04 : CRISIS/MEDIA

Programme

6:30 pm

Introducing Crisis/Media - Shuddhabrata Sengupta
Readings of two extracts from the book

7:00 pm

'Trial by Media' : The S A R Geelani Trial and the Media
Nandita Haksar, Advocate, Human Rights Activist
(All India Defence Committee for S A R Geelani)

Seminar Hall, CSDS new building

--

Ranita Chatterjee

Programme Coordinator

The Sarai Programme

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054

Tel: (+91) 11 23960040

(+91) 11 23942199, ext 307

Fax: (+91) 11 23943450
www.sarai.net



ABSTRACT
The Sarai Reader 04: Crisis/ Media is a wide-ranging collection of
critiques and accounts of the politics and processes of information
dissemination and access in today's crisis-ridden and crisis-obsessed
world. From protesting censorship in India to creating an alternative to
the embedded reporter of the current Iraq War, from Kashmir to New York to
Rwanda, the Sarai Reader is a timely and relevant compilation of essays
that confront the conformist trends of mainstream representation and
challenge the reader to a deeper engagement with media practices.

TABLE OF CONTENTS


APPROACHING CRISIS

Bearing Inconvenient Witness: Notes in Pro/Confessional Mode - Ranjit Hoskote

Peace is War : The Collateral Damage of Breaking News - Arundhati Roy

Financialization, Emotionalization and Other Ugly Concepts - Toby Miller

Interventionist Media in Times of Crisis - Soenke Zehle

Western Wars and Peace Activism: Social Movements in Global Mass-Mediated
Politics - Martin Shaw

IMAGE DISTURBANCE

Let us become Children ! Training, simulations and kids - Kristian Lukic

What is to be done? - Bhrigupati Singh

Disreputable and Illegal Publics : Cinematic Allegories in Times of Crisis
- Ravi Vasudevan

Protesting Capitalist Globalization on Video - Oliver Ressler

Barcelona Pictures - Sasja Barentsen

From One Crisis to the Next : The Fate of Political Art in India - Nancy
Adajania

On Representing the Musalman - Shahid Amin

Machines Made to Measure : On the Technologies of Identity and the
Manufacture of Difference - Raqs Media Collective

CRISIS MEDIA - CASE STUDIES

Media representations of the Kargil War and the Gujarat riots - Subarno
Chatterji

Small Town News - Taran N. Khan

'Out of the Box' : Telelvisual Representations of North East India - Daisy
Hasan

Lost in Transit : Narratives and Myths of The Crash of Egypt Air Flight 990
Crash in Egyptian and American Newspapers: - Mahmoud Eid

Of Nasty pictures and "Nice Guys",: The Surreality of Online Hindutva -
Christiane Brosius

Media Looking Beyond Crisis? The Urdu/Pakistani Press in New York after
9/11 - Rehan Ansari

Tried by the Media : The S A R Geelani Trial - Nandita Haksar

TRUTH/TESTIMONY

"I saw it on CNN so it must be true...wrong !" - Craig Etcheson

"CNN made me do (Not Do) it" Assessing Media Influence on US Interventions
in Somalia and Rwanda - Lyn S. Graybill

Left To Their Own Devices
The Impact of Informal Information and Communication Networks on Security
in the Tanzanian Refugee Camps - Amy West

Readers vs. Viewers - Ivo Skoric

Cracks in the Urban Frame: The Visual Politics of 9/11 - Ranjani Mazumdar

Truth telling, Gujarat and the Law - Arvind Narrain

CAUTION: REPORTERS AT WORK

Massacres and the Media : A Field Reporter Looks Back on Gujarat 2002 -
Darshan Desai

The Everyday Life of the Srinagar Correspondent : Reporting from Kashmir -
Muzamil Jaleel

A Reporter in Prison - Iftikhar Gilani

Covering Kashmir : The Datelines of Despair - Basharat Peer

Mumbai(Dongri)-Gujarat-Mumbai-Kashmir : Pages from my Diary - Zainab Bawa

WAR CORRESPONDENCES: FIRST PERSON PLURAL

Thoughts on Afghanistan in Five Parts - Meena Nanji

On Experiencing Afghanistan - Daphne Meijer

The Afghan eXplorer : http://compcult.media.mit.edu/afghan_x/ - The
Computing Culture Research Group - MIT Media Lab

Waiting : Entries from a Filmmakers Diary in and around Tel Aviv - Annabel
Faroqhi

Last E mail from the Gaza Strip - Rachel Corrie

GNN : The Guerrila News Network
Interview with Stephen Marshall - Geert Lovink

Synchronicities : Baghdad/Delhi - Anand Vivek Taneja

Portrait of a Day in Baghdad - Paul Chan

Diary of a News Cameraman : Baghdad, July 2003 - Shakeb Ahmed

Rescued Pages of War Sense - Tarun Bhartiya

DEEP INSTABILITIES

Politics in the Picture : Witnessing Environmental Crises in the Media -
Sanjay Kak

The Toxic Times of India:The Plastic Monster and a State of Emergency -
Ravi Agarwal

Evictions - Projections : Watching Dharmendra in Suburban Lagos - Hansa
Thapliyal

Remembering SARS in Beijing : The Nationalist Appropriation of an Epidemic
- Sanjay Sharma

Mediated Guilt : The Illusion of Participation in Delhi's Social Welfare
Advertisements - Omar Kutty

Journey through a Disaster : A Filmmaker's Account of the Gujarat
Earthquake, 2001 - Batul Mukhtiar

CYBERMOHALLA STREET LOGS

LOG OO1, 20th October, 2003 - Dakshinpuri Cybermohalla Media Lab

INFORMATION = POLITICS

P2P : Power to the People - Janko Röttgers
War in the Age of Pirate Reproduction - Nitin Govil

Floss and the 'Crisis' : Foreigner in a Free Land? - Martin Hardie

Introducing AIDC as a Tool for Data Surveillance - Beatriz Da Costa +
Jamieson Schulte + Brooke Singer

Anagrams of Orderly Discorder (For the New Global Order) - Geoff Cox,
Joasia Krysa + Adrian Ward

The Tools and Tactics of A Festival : Looking Back at N5M4 - David Garcia

The Revenge of Lowtech : Autolabs, Telecentros and Tactical Media in Sao
Paulo - Ricardo Rosas

CONTESTING CENSORSHIP

Reasonable Restrictions and Unreasonable Speech - Lawrence Liang

'The Whole Constitution Goes for Six" : Legislative Privileges and the
Media - Sudhir Krishnaswamy

Censorship Myths and Imagined Harms - Shohini Ghosh

Homeless Everywhere : Writing in Exile - Taslima Nasrin

Manifesto Against Labour - Gruppe Krisis

Digital Declaration - Infossil Corrective