For two months prior to the general elections in May 2009 NDTV anchor and TV
reporter Sunetra Choudhury, along with her colleague Naghma Sahar, clambered
onto a bus equipped with some Club Class seating, the requisite machinery to
beam out live from the remotest parts of India, and a motley crew of cameramen
and engineers Notching up 200 kilometres a day, she and her colleagues trundled
the bylanes and boondocks of Bharat in search of the elusive Indian voter, and
an insight into his mind. Lurching into villages without electricity in UP, to
tribal settlements in Jharkand, to Baripada in Orissa and Kanchipuram in Tamil
Nadu they