* List of Plates 7* Preface 11* Acknowledgements 14* Part One: COMMUNICATION AND DEVELOPMENT* 1. The Need for Alternatives 17* Part Two: COMMUNICATION* 2. Communication is for Communion 25* 3. The Right to Communicate 29* 4. WHO says WHAT to WHOM in what CHANNEL with what EFFECT? And So? 33* 5. Universal Education Died under Friendly Fire 38* 6. A Classroom Countrywide 42* 7. Calcutta Image, Mirage of Development 47* 8.
Not on Bread Alone, But on All Manners of Pictures 53* 9. Fourteen Years of Rigorous TV Watching for Every Citizen 58* 10. Rape! Rape! Rape! 62* 11. AIDS Literacy 65* 12. The Man/Woman Fault 70* 13. Maidan Virtual 74* 14. Disembodied Self and Virtual Sex 78* 15. Ill Give You a Ring 82* 16.
Monologue on DialogueThe Fine Art of Conversation 86* 17. Ego, My Brother 90* Part Three: CINEMA* 18. The Invention of the Cinema 97* 19. Cinema Awareness 103* 20. India: From Cinema to Television Awareness 109* 21. Innocent Pleasures in the Dark 115* 22. Maligned, Fleeced, Yet Beloved: Cinema 119* 23. Hundred Years of Film Theory: A Panoramic View 123* 24.
Happy Centenary Feast Indian Cinema! May You Rest in Peace 130* 25. On Manikdas 1994 Birthday 133* 26. A Film Festival, What For and For Whom? 136* 27. Film Criticism 139* 28. The Documentary Film as a Voice of Dissent? 142* 29. Film Scholarship 146* 30. A Film Industry for West Bengal 151* Part Four: CINEMA AND DEVELOPMENT* 31. Jesus 71: A Girl, Little and Mute, has Learnt to Play the Flute .
157* 32. Beder Meye Josna: The Girl Who had Three Fathers 166* 33. City of Joy: Fantasy of a Wounded Psyche 170* 34. Ganashatru: Straight from the Heart 174* 35. Shakha Proshahha: The Heartbeat of Time 178* 36. Agantuk: The Cave of the Heart 182* Part Five: CINEMA AND TELEVISION* 37. Indian Cinema meets Television: A Close Encounter of a Strange Kind* ENVOI* 38. From Morosity to Hope* Name Index 217.