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Neelesh Misra, The Quint to unveil webseries on everyday heroism
MUMBAI: While celebrating the success of fictional heroes, we often overlook the heroes of everyday life. ‘The Neelesh Misra show’, a new web series brought by The Quint, will narrate the extraordinarily heroic deeds of ordinary people.
Neelesh Misra, the famous journalist who has been dealing with stories of rural india through Hindi news portal Gaon Connection, has teamed up with The Quint. The 26-episode series will connect the urban population with rural India through real-life stories. The show will premier on 27 February 2018 and will be available on Quint Hindi’s YouTube channel and Facebook account as well.
The upcoming series has an underlying theme of ‘hamare hero hamare aas-pas hain’ that is ‘our heroes are among us.’ The audience will come to know about those brave hearts who are silently working for society in areas such as women empowerment, health, farming and rural aspirations.
“At Gaon Connection, we have been telling stories related to the heartland for five years now. But it is really exciting for me personally that we are collaborating with The Quint to take these stories to a far bigger, English- and Hindi-speaking audience in urban India. I hope our show will help them better understand issues that are often on the margins of mainstream media,” Misra said of the show.
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ONDC names Vibhor Jain MD and CEO; Rohit Lohia joins as CBO, Manoj Thakur as CTO
Leadership formalised as open commerce network sharpens focus on scale and user value
The Open Network for Digital Commerce has formalised Vibhor Jain as managing director and chief executive officer, cementing a leadership transition at India’s ambitious open commerce platform as it pushes for scale and relevance.
Jain, who had been serving as acting chief executive officer since April last year following the exit of Thampy Koshy, steps into the role with effect from 7th April , according to a report by The Economic Times. He previously served as chief operating officer at the government-backed network, which enables buyers and sellers to transact across applications through an open, interoperable system.
Setting out his strategy, Jain underscored the network’s differentiated architecture. “Going forward, we are concentrating on what open, interoperable infrastructure can uniquely enable, things that no single platform has the incentive or the architecture to do,” he said.
He added that the immediate priority is to widen ONDC’s impact across user cohorts often underserved by platform-led commerce. “My priority is to deepen the value ONDC creates for the people it exists to serve: kisaans, karigars, kiranas, gig workers, first-time investors, and daily commuters across India,” he said.
Jain also flagged leadership reinforcement within the organisation, noting that ONDC has “a strong and exciting leadership team in place”, with Rohit Lohia joining as chief business officer and Manoj Thakur as chief technology officer.
With over 18 years of experience spanning entrepreneurship and consulting, Jain brings a track record in technology-led, large-scale transformation programmes and internet businesses. At ONDC, he has been closely involved in shaping strategy and operations as the network seeks to move digital commerce away from platform-centric models towards an open network approach.
Before ONDC, Jain worked with JUMO, where he helped set up the fintech firm’s India operations, and led the India launch of Mobike, handling regulatory, policy and operational aspects of its market entry. Earlier, he co-founded Atlanta Healthcare, an air quality management company, and spent more than a decade in consulting roles at Andersen and EY, advising governments on public policy and technology-driven reforms, including work on the Aadhaar programme and tax systems.
The mandate is clear but the path is complex. As ONDC attempts to rewrite the rules of digital commerce, Jain now carries the burden of turning open architecture into mass adoption, in a market still dominated by platform power.
