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Bihar

Mohammad Shahabuddin: The Jail Superintendent

Kumar Anshuman

How the RJD don Shahabuddin made Siwan jail his political headquarters

The Faulty Genes’ Stupid Offspring

Why sons of politicians do not get away with murder unlike their parents

Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad: The Fraying of Brotherhood

What has gone wrong between Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad?

Shambhu Baba: A Saint Is Sighted

The meteoric rise of Shambhu Baba, the latest addition to the list of godmen from Mithilanchal in Bihar. And he is too sacred to be photographed

Dalits: Stand up and Be Counted

Dalits across the states are refusing to be anybody’s vote bank

The Farcical Society

On Bihar doing away with its toilet-at-home eligibility criterion to contest polls

Train to the Future

In Sasaram, Bihar, hundreds of students band together to nurture their dream of cracking government entrance examinations—on a railway platform

2015: The Partition of the Indian Mind

Can Modi be the Great Reconciler of India?

Prohibition Politics

Who gains from a liquor ban?

For the Day Bihar Thinks Beyond Caste

Complexity, despair and hope in Bihar

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