B Rishikesh Bahadurdesai

Rishikesh Bahadur Desai is a Special Correspondent for <em>The Hindu</em>. He has been covering politics, art and culture, e-governance and governance at the grassroots, drought and floods, communal violence and Sufi –syncretic worship, farming and hunger, illiteracy and education, rural development and urban planning, ancient heritage and planning for the future, injustice and opportunity and backwardness and development, for 17 years.