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Gandhian Thought and Communication: Rethinking the Mahatma in the Media Age looks at Gandhian thought and contributions from an interdisciplinary communication perspective. It explores the Mahatma as a public intellectual and communicator. It studies Gandhi's unique communication techniques to connect with the masses and the way he used and appropriated myth, metaphors and symbols to communicate his ideas related to modernity and nationalism. The book examines how Gandhian ideas have been tested and the implications derived. This book also studies the contemporary relevance of Gandhian thought by looking at various popular media representations to open up the possibilities of rethinking and recasting Gandhi in the present context.
Confession as Public Communication: Reflections on Gandhi's the Story of My Experiments with Truth
Confession as Public Communication: Reflections on Gandhi's the Story of My Experiments with Truth
Between Fatherhood and Sonhood: The Urgencies of Communication
This chapter has been distilled from three separate readings of Gandhi's autobiography done at different stages of my life. Understandably, the three readings involved differing degrees of passive reception and active interpretation of the text in the larger backdrop of Gandhi's personal and public life. My latest reading of Gandhi's autobiography is informed by the wider traffic of ideas and themes from other external events and sources, specifically the Lokpal movement led by Anna Hazare and the practice of janata durbar by Nitish Kumar during ...
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