Traditional Communications: The Parallels and Contrasts of Networking

India is known to be a linguistic melting point, an abode to numerous languages and dialects; and hence numerous means of communication also dwell here. This paper tends to comprehend the means of communication associated with far-flung rural/tribal communities of India through their native languages. This paper draws parallels or contrasts to in the ways of communication associated with the ‘naive’ people especially tribal groups and with those of the technologically advanced. These people have drawn their own novel method of communication to pass on specific information through personal channels dealing only with humans. Day to day interpersonal experiences between them show that dissemination of information has a great bearing upon the social transformation of a society and its networking. It has been observed that those who are elderly population of different ethnic groups still clings on to the traditional mode of communication and the younger ones, under the effect of urban peer follow or have resorted to the modern/ new mode of communication. Therefore, mass media technologies must necessarily be based on ecological, geographical and socio-economic settings, keeping in mind the dialect, general and political scenario of the area.