While the advantages of modern mass media are well conceded and accepted, significance of folk media cannot be relegated to the background. Today more than ever before, there is a need for striking a balance between the folk media and modern mass media to obtain the goals of growth and development. It is not a marriage of convenience, but a marriage of two realities. One is inseparable from the other in the context of communication and change in rural areas. Therefore, folk media have their own distinct role to play in a complex and heterogeneous society like India, which needs to be recorded...