Shalini Singh: Why Reporting on the Lives and Livelihoods of 800+ Million Rural Indians Should Matter

The following transcript is from Shalini Singh's lecture hosted by the Center for Media at Risk and co-sponsored by the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI). She spoke on February 14 at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Some basic facts about India first. India is the second most populous nation after China. It is one third the size of the U.S. and three times the people. It is the land in which Mahatma Gandhi launched the...