Madhavankutty Pillai
On hooch tragedies and Bihar’s failing experiment with prohibition
With minimal budgets and skeletal crews, indie filmmakers from Bihar tell of dreams and displacement, love and revolt
Special category status to states is a grab for more money from the Centre
BJP banks on PM Narendra Modi turning Lok Sabha elections into presidential contests
The sudden fall of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government in Maharashtra would have worked to convince Nitish Kumar that RCP Singh might well be the Trojan horse of Bihar
Manoj Bajpayee speaks to Ullekh NP on a range of subjects from OTT to astrology, Bihar to spies. Excerpts:
He had changed what was considered the accepted wisdom in Bihar’s political circles