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About The Book: A wellresearched work on the challenges of development communication, serves as a reminder of the preindependence vision of a just and egalitarian society, and draws attention to the possibilities of development communication as part of social engagement.Guides administration, mass communications, policy makers and statesmen. About The Author: G.N.S. Raghavan entered journalism in 1974, serving his apprenticeship under Khasa Subba Rau, Freedom fighter, who was at that time editorpublisher of the English weekly Swatantra, Madras. Coming to Delhi in 1949 join the Thought weekly under the editorship of Arthur Moore, he worked for the Indian Express as political correspondent in Delhi for more than five years. He later served in several media units of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting and was Secretary of the Second Press Commission (198082). Among his works are Introducing India, published by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. He wrote jointly with Aruna Asaf Ali a Study of Jawaharlal Nehru under the title Private Face of a Public Person and The Resurgence of Indian Women, both sponsored by the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library. He is the author of The Making of Modern India, Forty Years of the a World's Largest Democracy, and Development and Communication in India?all Published by Gyan. CONTENTS: Preface • Introduction • PART 1 : VISION AND REALITY • Context of History • Impediments to a BroadBased • PART 2 : DEVELOPMENT • Disparities and mass poverty • As Development, So Communication • Education : Betrayal of Article • Misuse of electronic media • Other Official Media • PART 3 :AS COMMUNICATION SO DEVELOPMNENT • NonOfficial Media: Diverse Voices • InterPersonal Communication • An Agenda for Renewal • Recasting Public Policies • PART 4 : COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL ACTION • Joining of Hands by The Humane. The Title 'Development and Communication in India British Growth and Mass Deprivation written/authored/edited by G. N. S. Raghavan', pub