Full Description
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.
Contents
Foreword: Mahatma Gandhi—A Life So Keenly Observed by Arvind Singhal
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Biswajit Das
SECTION A: COMMUNICATION & RE-ENCHANTMENT OF MODERNITY
Nationalism, Religion and The Critique Of Modernity: Gandhi's Hind Swaraj - Prafulla K Kar
Some Contextual Reflections on Hind Swaraj: A Critique of 'Modernity' and an Argument for Indian Modern Consciousness - Alok Bajpai
Confession as Public Communication: Reflections on Gandhi's The Story of My Experiments with Truth - Ratnakar Tripathy
SECTION B: MYTH, METAPHOR AND STRATEGY
An Unfinished Communication: Gandhi and the Ahmadabad Labour Strike, 1918 - Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay
Multi-verse of Gandhi's Charkha: Spinning Experiences and the Question of Information - Sadan Jha
Gandhi: Journalist, Communicator and Satyagrahi - Keval J Kumar
SECTION C: REVISITING MAHATMA IN MEDIA AGE
Munna and Gandhi: Rethinking Gandhi, 'Gandhigiri' and Popular Hindi Cinema - Arunabha Ghosh and Partha Ray
Reading Gandhi with/in Popular Cinema: A Pedagogue's Perspective - Dev Nath Pathak
The Rhizomatic Constructions of Gandhi on Web 2.0 - Gopalan Ravindran
Digital Civil Disobedience Movement: Revisiting Gandhian Thoughts in an International Commune - M Shuaib Mohamed Haneef
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