Bihar

Life in the largest refugee camp for Bangladesh’s Urdu-speaking community.

A recent book explores the systemic rot that holds India to ransom.

For women to safely give birth in rural areas in India, community monitoring is essential.

Despite its decline in size and stature over the last decades, the mela represents the desires and deprivations of a rural society in flux.

As a new government is formed in Kathmandu, how can Nepal not only learn from the changes underway in Bihar, but capitalise on them?

Will the state’s elections offer a new template for the state – or old wine in a new bottle?

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.

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 …