Neelesh Misra
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Neelesh Misra during a recording of his poems Purane Khat written by a member of his mandli Abhinav Saxena also known by Abhi nigam.
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| Born |
5 May 1973 Nainital, India |
| Residence | Mumbai, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Mass Communication |
| Occupation | Writer, lyricist (Bollywood), Script-writer (Bollywood), Storyteller, photographer, journalist, entrepreneur |
| Known for | Yaadon Ka IdiotBox, Gaon Connection |
| Spouse(s) | Yamini Misra (Present) Nidhi Razdan (Divorced) |
| Children | Vaidehi Misra |
| Awards | Ram Nath Goenka Award, K. C. Kulish Memorial Award |
| Website | www |
Neelesh Misra (Hindi: नीलेश मिश्रा) (born 1973) is an Indian journalist, author, radio storyteller, Bollywood director, scriptwriter, lyricist and photographer. He is most known for his radio show, Yaadon Ka IdiotBox with Neelesh Misra on BIG FM 92.7. He is co-founder-editor of Gaon Connection, India's rural newspaper. He has also founded a content creation company called Content Project Pvt. Ltd.He is currently working on his new radio show,"The Neelesh Misra Show"on Red FM 93.5.
Born and brought up in Nainital, His father belonged to a village, Kunaura 160 km from Lucknow.
Neelesh Misra did his schooling from boarding school, St. Joseph's College, Nainital (1988) and Mahanagar Boys' Inter College, Lucknow (1990). He did his graduation from DSB Government Degree College, Nainital (1993), and later studied at Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Delhi.
As a journalist, he has covered conflict and insurgency over the past two decades in South Asia, travelling deep into the hinterland. His travels have taken him from the rebel heartlands of Kashmir to Naxalite-dominated areas of central and eastern India, to the faraway north-east which is home to some of the world's longest running insurgencies. He has closely studied the Maoist insurgency in Nepal. For his reportage from India's insurgency lands, he received the Ramnath Goenka Award For Excellence in Journalism and the K.C. Kulish Memorial Award in the year 2009. Presently he is the Editorial Director of his rural newspaper Gaon Connection.
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