Uma Narula

Uma Narula is Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst USA. Dr. Narula is Director / Communication Consultant (Research & Training) with Communication Networks (CNET), New Delhi, India. She regularly conducts social and development research on national and international issues and provides communication training to corporate and academic groups. Dr. Narula has extraordinary research acumen and rare understanding of people and their emotions. These qualities helped her to draw out the nuances in perceptions of the five generations presented in the book Indian Women Across Generations.

She has authored six books: Mass Communication: Theory and Practice (1994), Development Communication: Theory and Practice (1994, revised 1999), Mass Communication Technologies: New Perspectives (2001), Communication Perspectives: Cultural Diffusion, Dynamic and Challenges (2001), and Yearnings (Fiction) (2003). She has also co-authored three books: Development as Communication (1986), Culture, Politics and Research Programs (1990), and New Communication Technologies in developing countries (1990).

She has a number of research publications and articles to her credit. She has been associated with a number of national and international research projects, teaching, and training since 1958.