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Nitish Kumar

Bihar – Ring in the Old New

Shruti Vyas

Nitish Kumar reinvented himself and socially engineered his campaign around goodwill he knew he held among Biharis

Bihar Elections: The Grand Finale

The Bihar election has turned from caste to a battle between two towering personalities

Lalu Prasad Yadav: A Caricature in Search of a Cartoon

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

The Liberation Struggle of Bihar

The BJP stands to gain from a revolt brewing among Dalits, lower Backwards and a section of upper OBCs against the political clout of Yadavs and Kurmis

For the Day Bihar Thinks Beyond Caste

Complexity, despair and hope in Bihar

Bihar Election: Sons of the Toil

Lalu Prasad’s real fight is for the family

Cast(e)aways

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

The Patna Protocol

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

Bihar: The Great Election Scare

How political parties in Bihar increasingly use fear as a tool to draw Muslim votes

Bihar: Land without Justice

As Bihar is set to become a defining battle for Narendra Modi, Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar, the political cartel of backward castes faces a mortal threat from the underdogs

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