Neelesh Misra

Zara Murao

Journalistic reports collected by reporters and photographers of the Hindustan Times before the 15th Lok Sabha elections in 2009.

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India Yatra

About the Book : - In a country the size of India, problems too come large-sized. Many of these appear all but insurmountable. In the past few years a series of examples of innovation and creative thinking are showing how many of these problems can be solved. In the process, the lives of millions are being transformed, and millions more can suddenly hope for a better future. Inspired India is a selection of 25 initiatives in the fields of health, governance, education, urban renewal, economy and road safety, among others, that have shown the way out of what is often a dead-end situation. These are examples of innovation by individuals and institutions, some of them turning accepted wisdom on its head. Who, for instance, could ever imagine that world-class healthcare could be inexpensive, as the Narayana Hrudayalaya near Bangalore provides, following a model that could revolutionize healthcare across the country. In addition to the examples are interviews with experts on how best to act on the issues covered, and specific measures to tackle the problems described, making this a unique book on a subject, an inspired India, that touches us all. About the Authors : - 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. Zara Murao is news editor with the Hindustan Times in Mumbai. A graduate in literature from Sophia College, University of Mumbai, she earlier worked with the Indian Express, heading the city desk there and later at HT. She has written several travelogues for both newspapers and worked on a number of special series.

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