Media education in India: the practice of comics

This article views comics as an innovative communication tool and a medium for education, and reviews the multifaceted media culture and informal education in India. Taking from the practice of two case studies, this article sees a formation and the production of local popular culture in contemporary self-education practices in India. The examples of World Comics India and the Alternative Law Forum show a resourceful model for community empowerment in addressing specific issues of autonomy from ideological positions in media representation through the methodology of self-education. The production of active cultural content, cooperation, and exchange within and between communities create a model where the notion of a vertically driven holistic approach to development is being challenged. Furthermore this article tries to correlate informal education practice through their cultural and social contexts, addressing diversified learning environments and enhances comics as a media method at the periphery of the knowledge society