Your article has truly captured the sorry state of affaires. You only lack the agility aspect but others not only lack the vision but also the courage to face their own prejudices and lacunae. You have rightly voiced the apprehensions of thousands like me who are actually living with such deep wounds. I am as much an Indian as I am a Southy, but I guess afterall all, throughout my life there will be only one word of addressing South Indians like you and me and that would be "madrasi". Kudos Mr.Srinivasan.
Dear Rajeev, Thanks for your hope for bihar after 20years.your name indicates your south origin;So once again I thank you for your good wish for Bihar as my origin is Bihar. The small sight of word Bihar excites me and i start reading whatever information i can get about my beautiful state as i am right now working far away from my Bihar as well from India.
But my lust and love for Bihar is evident from the fact that every week the desktop of my computer changes and the background is some places of my city,Patna.
Yes the good story about places like AP,Karnatka, Kerala is that atleast development is being witnessed in atleast one of their city whether it is hyderabad/secunderabad, Bangalore;but when it comes to bihar we dont even see development in the capital Patna.but Rajeev here only one thing can change the story and that is political will.
You can see there is no riots or communal war in war cauz it is the political will ;but One can see that caste war is there as political will is lacking there.today the only problem of bihar is law and order the day government makes a revolution in that every thing will change swiftly.
i think the write up is just excellent and very aptly justifies the reasons as to why bihar should not be included in the list of derogatory terms.there all types of people in every community and a few bad incidents cannot eclipse the glory of a beautiful historically significant regime.
I guess you know by now that i am a bihari . And i don't hesitate in admiting it either.This article refills me with hope.I am studying hard so that i may get out of bihar and get a good paying job.20 years as you say is a long time for me.Wish it could happen earlier.
Thank you Mr. Srinivasan for such a excellent article. But to be fair to Biharis and Bihar, I just want to ask if you can propose any way we can convert Bihar into the past glorious Pataliputra for eg. The Vision, The architecture and the beautiful description of the situations and environmental changes that may have lead to Bihar being exploited and pushed into its present form are correct. But Please tell me How should I overcome bad politics and politicians Like Mr. Yadav and his friends, say for example I take the bid to invest in Bihar. Thanks.
Bihar wasn't all that bad ...."uncivilized" as Rajeev prefers to say even in recent past. 3rd richest state at Independence, part of mining, manufacturing hub till late early 80's. It was the decline in political standards that since Emergency that became its Pompey. To counter Jai Prakash Narain's influence at Centre, Indira Gandhi wiped out the state leadership replacing them with puppets led to feudalistic approach to governance. This led to a plutarchy, of which Laloo is by-product. The incessant caste wars in central Bihar, Naxalite influence and government chosing a political silence have led to decline of rule of law in entire state. Indifference to lawlessness gained in these parts has spread as a cancer to the whole state. Establishing rule of law is the first symptom required any economic rebound in fortunes of Bihar. Till then bye bye Pataliputra, welcome to Patna.
