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India - Exposing what 'Development' really looks like
We are primarily a group of students between the ages 18 and 28 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. We felt that the mainstream media in our city presented everything in binaries thereby leaving out a whole range of very important issues. For instance, the only two modes of economic movement or “development” are seen as being either on the agricultural path (where the media portrays agriculture to be an unproductive monolith from the past) or on the industrial path (where industry, despite its strong-arm aggressive mode of being, is seen as a pill which will magically generate thousands of jobs for the unemployed youth and eradicate poverty from India). Similarly, political opinion is seen by the mainstream media as being…
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