Daily Archives: January 19, 2015

The wide gap between social issues and social media

Three-and-a-half months after the launch of the Digital India initiative, there is a feeling of directionlessness in many sections of the government, companies and the community of activists about how to implement the ambitious programme and make the best of it. In the last 100 days or so, I have met at least 100 people…

Pratibadh: empowering and informing its rural readers

Pratibadh, a 13-year-old publication distributed in 53 districts across Bihar, Punjab and Haryana, is bringing about an information revolution in villages. From humble beginnings in 1996 with just 1,000 copies, the fortnightly is now read in Hindi or Gurmukhi by not less than 800,000 people in 35,000 villages. But the reason it got a Manthan…