Communication Through the Ages: An Indian Perspective
Contents: Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Roman Equivalents of Nagari Letters. List of Contributors. Introduction. SECTION I IDEA, CONCEPT, NATURE, SCOPE AND MEANS OF COMMUNICATION: 1. Human Communications/A.S. Bais. 2. Hearing Impairement - How Risky/Shilpi Narang. 3. Communication with the Unseen/Lakhan Mehrotra. 4. Extra Terrestrial Communication/K.N. Rao. 5. Mrityu se sambandhit kuchh khas prashan-uttar ( Shri Upendra Vajpeyi aur Acharya Mahapragya ke Prashnouttar)/Acharya Mahapragya. 6. Communication in Prehistoric Period/S.P. Gupta 7. Communication in Pre-Modern India/Raghavendra Vajpeyi. 8. Satellite in Education: Edusat in the Teacher Training and Education/Rajendra Mishra. 9. Emergence of Radio and Television: As Instruments of Mass Communication on Development and Social Change (With Particular Reference to India)/Sunil Misra. 10. Conflict Zone Photography - The Third Eye - Manish Swarup 11. Information Requirements of a Modern Democracy – I/Ramamohan Rao 12. Nazm Kavita mein Chhapta tha Yah Akhbar/Suryaprasad Diksit. SECTION II PRINT MEDIA, VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS: 13. Folk Songs - An Effective Means of Communication (Special Reference to U.P. Tradition)/Nishi Misra. 14. Role of Theatre in Communication/Kavita Nagpal. 15. Some Stalwarts of Indian Music/K.P. Srivastava. 16. Communication through Music/Shanti Hiranand. 17. Development and Growth of Dance as a Communication Discipline/Sucharita Khanna. 18. Bharat Natyam - Speaking in the Present Tense/Malavika Sarukkai. 19. Kuchipudi Dance as Means of Communication/Raja Radha Reddy. 20. Kathak Dance - An Effective Medium of Communication/Shovana Narayan. Appendices: I Facts File II Pioneer of Television III Beyond Books... Bibliography.
The book, Communication through the Ages: An Indian Perspective, is based on an altogether new concept and a multi dimensional definition of the word, rather, term communication, going much beyond its conventional definition \'to connect\' and not limiting it to verbal, written, or print and electronic media, or radio, television, satellite, computer and cellular telephony means and tools of connectivity.
At a mundane level, it includes audio-visual presentations by means of theatre, folk songs and classical music as well as through medium of dance all leading to aesthetic and sublime experience not necessarily making knowledge of language essential for their appreciation.
And at a supra-mundane level it connects man with other worldly experience and extra-sensory perception, viz., god, heavenly bodies and transference of vital energy through the means of reincarnation etc.
The book comprises of twenty contributions of experts and specialists belonging to different schools of thought and diverse disciplines.
