4
Feb

Webinar on Development Communication in India – Dr. Kuladhar Saikia

The chief guest Dr. Kuladhar Saikia started off defining developmental communication as aprocess through which we facilitate the development mechanism. He pointed out the actualstakeholders in the whole process of development communication. As per Dr. Saikia, a veryimportant aspect of developmental communication are the ‘people’, who act as the mediators,such as the media people, the...
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3
Feb

Webinar on Development Communication in India – Dr. Ankuran Dutta

Dr. Ankuran Dutta chaired the session and he showed gratitude towards Dr. Ujjwal KChowdhury, congratulated the team for organizing the event that brought together peoplefrom different corners of the world. Development is a multi-faceted phenomenon andbelieves that it benefits the larger whole of society. Development communication holds ademocratic architecture for the country. The process of...
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30
Dec

Storytelling for Social Change – Dr. Manisha Pathak-Shelat

Stories had always been important in India, a culture with strong oral traditions. Even concepts such as Sadharanikaran, Sahradaya, and Rasa in the Indian communication theory highlight the significant contribution of storytelling in capturing audience engagement. Storytelling had lost some of its significance in the times when we started privileging the masculine, the rational, quantitative...
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30
Dec

The Art of Storytelling

November 24, 2021: The 15th session of the Global Communication Education Conclave (GCEC) was enlivened by engrossing and meaningful stories shared by experts throughout the session. Storytelling today is not only limited to fiction. Leaders use storytelling to inspire, teachers use it to make complex information interesting for the students, marketers use it to sell...
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17
Dec

The Age of Fractured Truth – Subhash Dhuliya

This first phase of the information and technological revolution was facilitated by the integration of computers, telecommunication and satellite. A networked global ‘village’ had emerged. People had access to diverse sources of news and information. The Internet created numerous platforms of political, social and cultural interactions. There were high expectations that information will be democratized...
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15
Dec

The Art of Storytelling by Arvind Singhal

About a century ago, noted British author and novelist, G. K. Chesterton, who had a gift for using proverbs, metaphors, and allegories wrote: “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” Chesterton’s pithy sentence celebrates the potential that lurks...
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