An Introduction

Communication Theories- There is a vast world out there!

Why does one need to know about it? Oh isn't it just for the ‘Media People’ or rather ‘Media Professionals' (just to lend a bit more weight to us, for once!)

But once we start looking around us with the 'communication-theory tinted' glasses, life does begin to make more sense. It gives us a basic framework in which certain things occur in ways we keep wondering ‘how’ and ‘why’. It lends a clearer picture of the big things that flash on the screens across the globe. It’s another thing that the screen types change over time.

Before I lose track of why exactly I am here, here’s a bit of information for you, the reader. 

I happened to visit Mahalunge, a small village located in Bhivandi block of Thane district, Maharashtra. It is a rehabilitation village. For paving way for the biggest dam in Maharashtra, the Koyna dam, this village of 50 households was shifted from their homeland to here.

The rehabilitation policy of 1894 was brought into practice, which was not participatory. Hence, the compensation given to the project-affected persons was meagre. The villagers had to struggle a lot. With no roads, no water, no electricity to paved roads, increasing water levels and proposed windmills, the villagers thought of taking a path of self-development.

And I consider it my good luck that I got an opportunity to visit and interact with people of this village.

And that’s exactly where my knowledge of communication theories were put to test by me.

What follows is some of the incidents, interactions, experiences and ultimately their relation to various communication theories that I associated them to.

Happy ‘knowing’ time!

There's 'their' version, 'your' version and 'the' version of EVERY thing!