Index

CONTENTS

 Enter - Shuddhabrata Sengupta + Geert Lovink - v

ENTERING THE PUBLIC DOMAIN - viii 
 dak@sarai.net: 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 - 53

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 - 242 
 Notes on Contributors - 243 
 Acknowledgments - 246