Development and communication: a view from India

Any urban do-gooder going into the countryside to bring the “good news” of development to his backward countrymen may be in for a surprise. The backward rural-dwellers may be illiterate, but they receive an education from waging a daily struggle with the elements. The urban genius, on the other hand, learns at the feet of Western savants. In the meeting of town and country, it may be the urbanite who has much to learn from his “backward” cousins.