At a time when surviving a day only on Rs 500 bucks seems impossible, author Devapriya Roy and her husband Saurav Jha challenged themselves with an insane idea. “The Around India in a hundred days, that sort of thing. Not much else, that and the budget of course. We’d stick to Rs 500 rupees a day for bed and board,” states the fifth chapter of the book, The Heat And Dust Project.