Rashmi Sadana, Lecture on ‘Delhi’s Metromobilities’
Channel: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
Date: 09/11/2022

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
invites you to a lecture

Delhi’s Metromobilities

by Rashmi Sadana

Chair: Ananya Vajpeyi

Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 4.30 pm IST
Seminar Room and Zoom
Link: https://bit.ly/3otnn6H
Meeting ID: 84128254847
Passcode: csdsdelhi

Metronama is an intimate account of urban transformation told through the story of Delhi’s Metro, laying bare the radical possibilities and concretized inequalities of mega infrastructure, its ironies and contradictions, connections and disconnections in a new social world. Presented as a series of ethnographic vignettes or “scenes”, the book is a novelistic rendering of Delhi that looks into people’s daily experiences, thoughts, and itineraries. The lecture will focus on the book’s key themes of urban development, class and gendered sociality, and how ideas of the inside and outside get incorporated in a hyper-modern mega-infrastructure.

Rashmi Sadana is Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. She is the author of The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure (2022), published in South Asia as Metronama (2022); English Heart, Hindi Heartland: The Political Life of Literature in India (2012); and is co-editor (with Vasudha Dalmia) of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture (2012). 

Ananya Vajpeyi is Associate Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.