Ravi Sundaram
Biography
Ravi Sundaram is a Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies, Delhi and among the initiators of the Sarai programme on
media and urban culture. His work deals with the intersection of the
city and contemporary electronic cultures, issues of legality and non
legality, and new conflicts around property and the electronic
commodity.
Sundaram has spoken and presented on these issues in India and around the world; his essays have been translated into many languages. In Sarai, he works with the research project Publics and Practices in the History of the Present (PPHP), which examines the emerging inter-media junctions in Indian cities. He has co-edited the critically acclaimed series: the Sarai Readers: The Public Domain (2001), The Cities of Everyday Life (2002), Shaping Technologies (2003), and the new Crisis Media (2004). Among the recent conferences recently he co-organized was Contested Commons/Trespassing Publics: A Conference on Inequalities, Conflicts and Intellectual Property. In Spring 2005 he is a visiting Fellow at Princeton University.