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India Yatra : Places We Have Never Been,People We Will Never Meet

By Murao Zara Mishra Neelesh

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About the book

In the run-up to the 15th Lok Sabha elections in 2009, the Hindustan Times decided to take its readers up close to grassroots India, and to share the lives and perspective of ordinary Indians–the people who really matter in an election. India Yatra was probably the biggest national reporting project of its kind. It spanned more than 23,000 kilometres and 117 constituencies–about one-third of all Lok Sabha constituencies. Fifty-six reporters and photographers were sent out on selected routes to explore different themes and convey the concerns that occupy them. The exercise showed just how diverse India really is, and how startling its variety. So that, as Nandan Nilekani points out in his foreword, anyone who claims to know India is either lying or foolish. These reports present a picture of the country with remarkable clarity, without getting lost in the maze of its complexity. As India negotiates this critical period of rising awareness and an intensifying struggle for access to the benefits of growth, India Yatra assumes a significance that goes beyond the immediate reality.Is it possible to journey within a complex, layered country such as India, and not be lost in the confusion and detail of it? The essays in the HindustanTtimes Yatra series manage to do this superbly, and tease out fascinating snapshots of a country in flux.”–from the foreword by Nandan Nilekani “

Pages: 176

Available in: Paperback

Language: English

Murao Zara Mishra Neelesh

Neelesh Misra was born in 1973 in Lucknow, India. He worked with the India Abroad News Service and the Associated Press before joining The Hindustan Times in New Delhi as Senior Roving Editor. In a career spanning seventeen years he has covered some of the biggest news stories in South Asia including the Kargil conflict, Orissa’s super cyclone, the Gujarat earthquake, the massacre of the royal family in Nepal and its transition to democracy, the Asian Tsunami, and the Kashmir earthquake.He is the author of two non-fiction books: 173 Hours in Captivity: The story of the hijacking of IC 814 and End of the Line: The Story of the Killing of the Royals in Nepal . When he is not chasing the news he writes songs and scripts for Bollywood.

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