When we find our development messages getting lost in the wilderness, it is perhaps the time to think about the reasons for such failures. The folk is largely performative or oral. The folk is entirely different then the elite. If it is so then how can the elite construct message of development or community participation without making attempt to understand folk. The development can not be achieved without communication.
Communication is a process of exchanging messages in a shared code.
But the notion of code is not that simple as it appears to be. Silence could be a sign of approval and it could also be sign of defiance. Even if we master the shared codes, we need to understand the communicative behaviour of the community in order to send effectively the messages. Used under License.