Product Details :
- Hardcover: 344 pages
- Publisher: SAGE India (5 July 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 8132107357
- ISBN-13: 978-8132107354
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 2.5 x 21.6 cm
- About the Author :
Peter Gonsalves, PhD, currently teaches the Sciences of Social Communication at Salesian Pontifical University, Rome. He began his career in media as a community worker for rural development at the Bosco Gramin Vikas Kendra, Ahmednagar. He founded Tej-prasarini, Mumbai, a multimedia production centre to raise awareness of the urgency of life-based education in South Asia. He promoted a series of teacher-training manuals called ‘Quality Life Education’, the first of which was his own work: Exercises in Media Education (1994). Using this, he conducted no less than 40 all-India courses on media education for schoolteachers, social workers and youth facilitators form diverse ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds. Dr Gonsalves is a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco, an international society dedicated to the holistic development of young people. He coordinated its first five-language web portal at its headquarters in Rome. He was also president of INTERSIG, the international wing of SIGNIS, a world association of communicators for a culture of peace.
Yet another addition to the remarkably diverse Gandhian scholarship. Ammara Khan Dawn A powerful critique of the whole political economy of India. This book is a rare achievement. Arvind Sivaramakrishnan The Hindu A beautifully produced book. Gonsalves’ communication angle leads to a creative reading of what is no doubt one of the most powerful communication events in world history […] the communication dimension penetrates the book in more ways than one: the careful collection of photos, the figures and tables that intersperse the chapters, and the crispness and raciness of the narrative. Ivo Coelho Editor Divyadaan - Journal of Education and Philosophy Gonsalves’ study is exceptional – and brilliant, and, may one add, deeply emotive. M. V. Kamath Free Press Journal Noteworthy for the originality of its approach, the richness of the documentation it supplies, and the clarity with which the relevance and depth of Gandhi’s thoughts and actions are demonstrated. Yogesh Vajpeyi The New Indian Express
