Gandhian Thought and Communication: Rethinking the Mahatma in the Media Age looks at Gandhian thought and contributions from an interdisciplinary communication perspective. It explores the Mahatma as a public intellectual and communicator. It studies Gandhi’s unique communication techniques to connect with the masses and the way he used and appropriated myth, metaphors and symbols to communicate his ideas related to modernity and nationalism. The book examines how Gandhian ideas have been tested and the implications derived. This book also studies the contemporary relevance of Gandhian thought by looking at various popular media representations to open up the possibilities of rethinking and recasting Gandhi in the present context. Contents: Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction by Biswajit Das SECTION A: COMMUNICATION & RE-ENCHANTMENT OF MODERNITY Prafulla K Kar Nationalism, Religion, And The Critique Of Modernity: Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj Alok Bajpai Hind Swaraj: A Critique Of ‘Modernity’ And An Argument For Indian Modern Consciousness Ratnakar Tripathy Confession As Public Communication: Reflections On Gandhi’s The Story Of My Experiments With Truth SECTION B: MYTH, METAPHOR AND STRATEGY Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay An Unfinished Communication: Gandhi And The Ahmadabad Labour Strike, 1918 Sadan Jha Multi-Verse Of Gandhi’s Charkha: Spinning Experiences And The Question Of Information Keval J Kumar Gandhi: Journalist, Communicator and Satyagrahi SECTION C: REVISITING MAHATMA IN MEDIA AGE Arunabha Ghosh and Partha Ray Munna And Gandhi: Rethinking Gandhi, Gandhigiri’ And Popular Hindi Cinema Dev N Pathak Reading Gandhi With/In Popular Cinema: A Pedagogue’s Perspective Gopalan Ravindran The Rhizomatic Constructions Of Gandhi On Web 2.0 M Shuaib Mohamed Haneef Digital Civil Disobedience Movement: Revisiting Gandhian Thoughts In An International Commune Index