In this collection of essays and the documented proceedings of a roundtable discussion of Culture and Developments, the concept that culture is an often neglected (or taken for granted) but extremely crucial input in the development in the process is posited. While development workers have long considered the cultural factor in the implementation of projects, something had to be done to actually document and study the experiences gained in the field , it had to undergo the careful and objective analysis that could only be done in the quiet of academe. What excites in these essays is the fact that while these are the results of careful observations, the writers are not armchair academicians, but are practitioners, having accumulated long years of experience working in the field, hands on, in actual development projects.