Community media has the potential for deepening democracy by creating spaces for people to raise and discuss their concerns. However, its practice in India tends to be based on top-down decision-making, which is the legacy of the Development Communication paradigms, thus ignoring the creative and transformative possibilities of marginalized community voices. The perspectives in this book, rooted in years of fieldwork experience, by scholars and practitioners of community media, both question and offer alternatives to the dominant paradigms. Many Voices, Many Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Community Media in India is a critical reflection on governance and policymaking, development, disability, knowledge and other social markers in the context of community media. Bringing together different modes of community media—such as video, radio, theatre, information and communication technologies (ICTs) and new media—into a productive conversation with each other, the book focuses on how communities through their communicative practices, negotiate the politics of caste, class, gender, and access to funding and technology. Contents: Foreword by P. V. Satheesh Preface Acknowledgements Faiz Ullah, Anjali Monteiro, K. P. Jayasankar Introduction: Other Worlds Are Breathing SECTION I Waves of Freedom: Community Radio and Its Discontents Vinod Pavarala and Kanchan K. Malik Negotiating ‘the Political’ in the Community Radio Sphere: Historical Choices, Contemporary Predicaments Bidu Bhusan Dash Dalits and Adivasis in Community Radio: Understanding Representation and Participation in Bundelkhand Shweta Radhakrishnan Understanding the ‘Community’ in Community Media: Women’s Experiences of Leadership in Mandakini ki Awaaz SECTION II In Their Own Moving Image: Community Video Practices Nina Sabnani Collaborative Animation: Challenges of Participatory Film-making with the Bhil Community Madhavi Manchi ‘Sangam Shot’: Community Video as Assemblage Shweta Ghosh The Disability and Film-making Community in Film Practice-As-Research: The Case of We Make Film Raees Mohammed Dalit Camera: Resisting Caste Atrocities Through Video Section III. Durable Margins: Asserting Citizenship Nikhil Thomas Titus Community Media and Potential for Responsive Listenership on Campus Mahtab Alam Muslim Community Media and the Public Sphere: The Contribution of The Milli Gazette and TwoCircles.net Madhura Dutta Theatre for Community Education, Capacity Building and Research Dakxinkumar Bajrange Doing Theatre, Fighting Stigma: Budhan Theatre and the Creative Struggle of the Chharas SECTION IV Trajectories of Change: Spaces of Hope Anjali Monteiro and K. P. Jayasankar A Delicate Weave: The Place of Local Wisdoms in Community Media Initiatives Faiz Ullah Notes on the Political Economy of Community Media: The Independent Self-organizing Power of Communities Shilpa Phadke and Nithila Kanagasabai Doing Feminist Community Media: Collectivizing in Online Spaces Hemant Babu ‘Divided We Stand, United We Fall’: The Newfound Wisdom of Digital Age Communication Technology Index