Bihar Assembly Election 2015

Bihar: The Lucky Ally

Kumar Anshuman

Unexpected gains in Bihar has the Congress beaming. Will the euphoria last?

Lalu Prasad Yadav: A Caricature in Search of a Cartoon

Shiv Visvanathan

Lalu Prasad Yadav’s political journey of farce is almost over

Cast(e)aways

Kumar Anshuman in Patna

What happens when the leading alliances in Bihar are biased towards fielding Yadav candidates

EVM prototypes, a big hit in Bihar

Kumar Anshuman

As the state gears up for its first phase of voting on 12 October, EVM prototypes are selling like hot cakes as awareness material

An epic battle is underway in the proverbial badlands of Bihar, where many political lives swing between irrelevance and renewal. Even as cracks appear in the artificial alliance of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad, the BJP wants more than a victory. It is fighting for a mandate worthy of India’s most popular politician and its unsurpassed campaigner. Narendra Modi’s next phase of modernisation will begin from the backwardness of Bihar