Bihar

The Value of History

Amartya Sen

There is a lot that Bihar can learn from its glorious past to solve problems currently plaguing the state

Pangs of a Patna Visit

Amitava Kumar

Intimations of mortality

Heaven, Hell and Earth

Aditya Sinha

Amitava Kumar’s A Matter of Rats casts Patna in a triple role of memory, magnet and mundanity. It is a good book. With one more nudge, it could have been a great one

Poisoned in Primary

Amarnath Tewary

Political conspiracy theories abound as the headmistress considered responsible for the mid-day meal deaths at a school in Bihar absconds

The Battle to Tame Bihar

Chinki Sinha

The brief history of an anarchy

A Chief Minister Unmasked

Rahul Pandita

The Bathani Tola massacre and Nitish Kumar’s apathy

The Real Brahmeshwars

Rahul Pandita

The Ranvir Sena and Bihar’s tryst with its political masters

After Nitish, the Flood

Dhirendra K Jha

In a scandal typical of Bihar, money was sanctioned to repair over a thousand kilometres of zamindari embankments that did not exist. Nobody knows where the funds went