The need to understand the evolution of the media in various parts of the non-western world has already been recognized. As a step in this direction the Minding the Gap Conference has constituted a panel on Perspectives from the Developing World. The papers broadly examine the media situations in as diverse geographical locations as Brazil, the Middle-East, Afghanistan and China. As a journalism practitioner from India, and in the absence of a paper on India, I have summarized the main issues related to the situation in the Asian sub-continent.