How did India feature in the map of Room to Read ?
Wood: Room to Read launched operations in India this year, making it the fourth country that we are operating in. It was Sabeer Bhatia who came up to me after a slide show of RTR at Marine County, shook my hand and said I want you to think of coming to India We had at that time established 300 libraries and 25 schools in Nepal and he handed me a check for $5000 and said, I will fund this project in Nepal as a goodwill measure. If you can achieve so much in so little time, I cant wait to see what you can do in India We were numbed by the challenge. I am not smart to figure everything out on my own. But I have this expertise behind me. Of course, we invited him to join our advisory board. We plan to launch only one program initially of setting libraries in order to develop local expertise. We are starting out in New Delhi and Rajasthan. Ms. Sunisha Ahuja joined us in April for the operations in New Delhi. Our work in India is being done in a joint venture partnership with the American In
