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 ...