Dr. Arvinhd Singhal

This short film details the effects of listening to Taru, an entertainment-education radio soap opera, in Village Abirpur of India’s Bihar State, including the starting of a village school for underprivileged children, empowerment of young girls who now wish to delay marriage, finish their education, and work hand-in-hand with their male counterparts to bring about positive changes in their community.

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Taru Comes to Abirpur —- 10’ 33” —- https://www.youtube.com/embed/zJueknt3dkc

The Coverage of Indira Gandhi’s Assassination in the Third World and Western Mass Media. MA Thesis, Bowling Green State University (Srinivas Melkote, Advisor) —- Arvind Singhal (1985) —- http://utminers.utep.edu/asinghal/Articles%20and%20Chapters/theses/Singhal-1985-MA-Thesis-BGSU.pdf

Pro-social Learning from Soap Opera Models in India. Ph.D. Pre-Dissertation Thesis, University of Southern California (Everett M. Rogers, Advisor) —- Arvind Singhal (1988) —- http://utminers.utep.edu/asinghal/Articles%20and%20Chapters/prosocial_dissertation.pdf

Effects of “Hum Log”, a Television Soap Opera, on Women’s Status and Fertility in India. New York: The Rockefeller Foundation —- Everett M. Rogers and Arvind Singhal (1989) —-

Diffusion of Innovations and Cooperative Development in India. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations —- Arvind Singhal and Everett M. Rogers (1992) —-

Expansion and Consolidation of the Cooperative Development Program in India. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations —- Everett M. Rogers and Arvind Singhal (1992) —-

Information Campaigns and Innovation Diffusion Techniques For Improving the Efficiency of Primary School Education in Lesotho. Lesotho: U.S. Agency for International Development —- Arvind Singhal and W. Stephen Howard (1992) —-

Expansion, Consolidation, and Sustainability of Cooperative Development in India Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations —- Everett M. Rogers and Arvind Singhal (1993) —-