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In Deora, a remote village near Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, Shiva Balak walked 24 kilometres to and back from his school each day, only to be left wondering why there were no schools in his own village.A brilliant student, he struggled through extreme hardships, and achieved laurels by winning a scholarship to fund his post-graduate degree in geology in Canada.S.B. Misra became a star in the scientific community when he discovered 565-million-year-old fossils that ...
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 ...
A charming, whacky romance across two continents involving a call center, visa touts, big dreams and outsourced love.When Neel Pandey’s lifelong dream of going to the US is dashed at the visa office he settles for second-best – working at a call center in New Delhi where, nightly, like Batman, he shrugs off his boring middle –class identity to become the smooth talking Neil Patterson. All is going well until he tumbles into a faraway romance with a feisty ...