ON more than one occasion, as we would go about our stories, we would hear someone or the other say: ‘You see, we are an aspirational district’ or words to that effect. Frankly, we didn’t understand what was meant and we took no notice. We were clearly focused on the story we were doing and ‘aspirational district’ or not didn’t matter to us.
But as one story led to another, we found ourselves writing to Amitabh Kant in NITI Aayog for an interview on the Aspirational Districts Programme, which he leads at. . .