Founded 2001 in Delhi, India.
The Cybermohalla Ensemble is a group of young urban cultural practitioners based in media labs in informal settlements throughout Delhi. A core group of practitioners also works at the Sarai Institute, a space for artistic practice, contemporary urbanism, and the study of technology founded by the Raqs Media Collective in 1998. Cybermohalla, which takes its meaning from “mohalla” (the word for “neighborhood” in Hindi and Urdu), is focused on the urban, producing books, broadsheets, installations, radio programs, and blogs about the city. In 2010, the group wrote and published Trickster City, a portrait of Delhi from perspectives largely marginalized in contemporary Indian literature. Their forthcoming book, No Apologies for the Interruption/Rukawat Ke Liye Khed Nahi Hai (2011) explores post-piracy media through the juxtaposition of image and text. Cybermohalla is a collaborative project of Sarai-CSDS, Delhi and Ankur: Society for Alternatives in Education, Delhi.
