Bihar

Stranded in Geneva Camp
Life in the largest refugee camp for Bangladesh’s Urdu-speaking community.
Gabriele Cecconi | Jun 27, 2019

Something rotten
A recent book explores the systemic rot that holds India to ransom.
Mitu Varma | Feb 28, 2017

The death of a mother
For women to safely give birth in rural areas in India, community monitoring is essential.
Jessica Mayberry and Madhura Chakraborty | Apr 08, 2016

Condensed in time and space: Sonepur Mela
Despite its decline in size and stature over the last decades, the mela represents the desires and deprivations of a rural society in flux.
Abhishek Choudhary | Jan 15, 2013

Building on Bihar
As a new government is formed in Kathmandu, how can Nepal not only learn from the changes underway in Bihar, but capitalise on them?
Blair Glencorse | Dec 01, 2011

Bihar face-off
Will the state’s elections offer a new template for the state – or old wine in a new bottle?
Rakesh Ankit | Oct 01, 2010

A profitable education
While India’s new Right to Education Act seeks to bring free and compulsory education for all children, it seems to short-change them through an unrealistic vision of the private sector’s involvement.
Sadhna Saxena | Jun 01, 2010

Modern zamindari
Abysmal, tragic, rotten, archaic, misgoverned - these are only some of the terms used to describe Bihar. And that's by those who live there. But the people of Bihar are slowly turning the politics of …
Rakesh Ankit | Nov 01, 2005
