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Communicating through Vernacular Media: Scope and Challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

A. Sule*
Affiliation:
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, email: [email protected]
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India is a country with a large number of languages which not only differ in scripts but are essentially part of different language families. “Marathi“ is one such Indian regional language spoken by nearly 70 million people and is the native language of the author. Like all major regional languages, there is a strong and vibrant media in Marathi with 45 odd newspapers and 6 television news channels.

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