ABSTRACT
Chapter 15 brings out the complexity of the production process of a community radio programme where participation must be the core principle. The juxtaposition of the “implied” meaning of “chaupal” as an open public space, with how it is a site of power hierarchies in its day-to-day “functioning” in a village system, reveals the challenges faced in programme production. The chapter, based on an ethnographic study of a CR station in the Bundelkhand region of India, explores the role of CR in the promotion of grassroots democracy and how it is not simple to produce such programmes in feudal societies.
