From women's media to rural media
June 19, 2005, India Together
Newsletters in rural Uttar Pradesh, started by women as a development effort to help communicate among themselves and share opinions, have evolved into forms of social mobilisation. These newsletters, now taking the form of newspapers, address social issues which affect entire communities and are in turn mobilising these communities in the process. The effectiveness of these newsletters has amazed even those who initiated the entire initiative. More importantly, the local administration has been moved at times to take quick action based on accounts in the newsletters.