1. Table of Contents
How to connect with the fellow Biharis :............................................................................................... 2
Want to contribute to this magazine ................................................................................................. 2
Want to advertise in this magazine .................................................................................................. 2
Editorial Board ..................................................................................................................................... 2
Bihar My Mother Land ........................................................................................................................ 4
Do you speak Bihari? ......................................................................................................................... 5
Saas and bahu: the eternal struggle ................................................................................................ 7
Bihar Development Trust ................................................................................................................. 10
Much Needed Change and Development in Bihar, necessary to avoid revolution ................ 12
Mithilanchal: - One more proposed division of Bihar ................................................................... 13
" ...".. .................................................................................................................................... 14
Book Review ‗The Plain Truth‖ by N.K.Singh ............................................................................... 19
A tale a tale story of the rampant corruption in the Civil Services ............................................. 19
The Curious Case of Bihari Cuisine: Part 1 .................................................................................. 19
Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar': Whose Pen Literally Burnt the Page ................................................. 25
............................................................................................................................. 26
Chasing a Mirage .............................................................................................................................. 27
I am Death .......................................................................................................................................... 28
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Love's Journey by Rashmi Singh ................................................................................................... 30
The Concept of a Nation .................................................................................................................. 31

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3. Bihar Next Education Hub of India
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In few Upcoming years Bihar will be the next Schools also called Zila Schools in the State. State
education Hub of India.Every year lacks of Bihari schools are affiliated with Bihar School
student Migrate to Bihar for his Fulfillment of Examination Board.
Education Need. Many of the Bihari student
migrated to Maharashatra,Delhi, Karanataka and Now a days there are also good number of
etc.If we look at our ancient history Bihar provided schools affiliated with Central Board of Secondary
education to all over world.Looking at the history of Education (CBSE) and Council for Indian School
Ancient education System in Bihar. Certificate Examination (CICSE). These schools
History include Convent Schools, Kendriya Vidyalayas,
In the ancient past Bihar was a major center of and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas. In the post
learning, teaching and research. There were two liberalization era the number of private schools,
world-renowned universities i.e. the Nalanda including school-chains and Missionary Schools
University and the Vikramshila University. The run by Christian Missionaries as well as Madrasas,
Nalanda University was famed for providing or schools run by Muslim clerics has increased.
education in Political Science and Economics, The school-chains and Missionary Schools run by
while Vikramshila known for education in Tantra. Christian Missionaries are considered as some of
Unfortunately in medieval period this system of the best schools in the state.
education destroyed by invading armies. Later
British ruled the country and the area remain
neglected.
It was the later part of British rule in India when
Bihar saw some revival in education as the British
established a University at Patna and some other
institutes for higher education, like Science
College, Patna, Prince of Wales Medical College
(Now Patna Medical College and Hospital), and
Bihar Engineering College (Now National Institute
of Technology, Patna). However educational
growth in the state did not stepped up further as
post independence leaders from Bihar failed in
establishing educational institutions in the state.
Present Scenario
There is a huge gap in demand and supply of
education in the state. This is the reason the
students are migrating from the state for receiving
education. There is good percentage of pupils
studying in institutes of highereducation in other
states like Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs),
Indian Institutes of Management (IIIMs), All India
Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), etc.
The schooling system in Bihar is same as it was For providing higher education Bihar has many
during British rule. State government administers universities and colleges like Patna University,
state schools in Bihar. There is system of District National Institute of Technology, Indira Gandhi
Institute of Medical Sciences and many others.

4. Range of courses taught like sciences, Indian civilization. Nalanda was a centre of
engineering, law, medicine, mass communication learning established by the 5th century CE in
etc. Bihar.
The literacy rate in Bihar is low as there is huge Among all Indian states, Bihar is the one most
gap between demand and supply for school
education as well as higher education. The state intimately linked to the Buddha‘s life, resulting in a
requires more number of schools and institutes for trail of pilgrimages which have come to be known
higher education. The Indian Institute of as the Buddhist circuit. The Buddhist trail begins at
Technology and Nalanda University will soon be
set up. With these institutions coming up it is the capital city, Patna, where a noteworthy
expected that the literacy rate will be higher than it museum contains a collection of Hindu and
is at present as they will also attract many other Buddhist sculptures as well as a terracotta urn
educational institutions to set up their branches in
said to contain the ashes of Lord Buddha.
the state.
Literacy Rate of Bihar from 1951 to 2001:-
The Buddha spent five years at Rajgir after having
attained enlightenment, and many of the remains
at Rajgir commemorate various incidents related
to life of Buddha, the hill of Gridhrakuta being
perhaps the most important, as this is where the
Buddha delivered most of his sermons. Bodhgaya
is the spot where Lord Buddha attained
enlightenment, with the Mahabodhi Temple
marking the precise location.
Bihar My Mother Land
BIHAR is the name derived from the ancient word Today Bihar rising in all aspect , Todays Bihar is
"VIHARA" , It is indeed a land of monasteries. the best place for entrepreneurs , business man
Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Muslim and Sikh shrines for businesses in India both as an investment
abound in this ancient land where India‘s first destination and untapped market potential ,There
major empires rose and fell. Where the ruins of the is huge potential and boundless opportunities
worlds‘ earliest university slumbers in the void of across many sectors including infrastructure
time. The passage of Ganga, flowing wide and ,Education ,Healthcare , Telecommunication ,
deep enrich the plains of Bihar before distributing Agriculture , Energy , information technology (IT),
in Bengal‘s deltoid zone. Food production and Tourism..... .
Ancient Bihar (which consisted of Anga (East In my last visit of patna , i was there one month ,
Bihar), Videha (North Bihar), Magadha (South now i am sure in next five years Patna is going to
Bihar) and Vaishali (North Bihar)) was a center of achieve Metro status ,and Bihar is going to be
power, learning and culture in ancient and number one state growth wise , because of lot of
classical India. other advantage , its is next best destination for IT
From Magadha arose India‘s first greatest empire, Company , again i am sure by 2014 Patna is next
the Maurya empire as well as one of the world‘s IT hub IN India .
most widely adhered-to religions, Buddhism. Now this is time of for us ..we need to unite for
Magadha empires, notably under the Maurya and our mother land , state development , we need to
Gupta dynasties, unified large parts of South Asia contribute our talent ,our efforts , need to do
under a central rule. Its capital Patna, earlier something great and outstanding for our mother
known as Pataliputra, was an important center of land .

5. Please awake up ...rise ..come and join and be the "BIHAR."Now Bihar Govt. and "BIHARI" people is
active part of Growth of our Mother Land ready to bring Bihar on world MAP.
Author : Binay Yadav
Do you speak Bihari?
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Bajjika.. i am able to differentiate the sound of it..
"So do you speak Bihari at home?" the tonality.. the words.. the specific districts where
More than often we are stumped by this question. it gets spoken. I am not able to imagine "Bihari' in
Am sure, most of the fellow Biharis never knew the same light.
that there is a certain language called' Bihari'
before they left Bihar. No parents told us this... no Is it Hindi: That's what i always thought of.. .. so I
school book taught us. would stick to it. But yes it is surely different from
Hindi that is spoken in the mainland in various
My answer to that question was always a ways..
big 'No'.No, because i never knew what 'Bihari
language' meant. What we speak at home is Hindi For e.g.
and that's the only language i am familiar with, i 1) the way we speak... so we love strectching the
know of and i speak. word ( )
For long I defended that there is no such language 2) We know the distinction between ,
called Bihari.. We have Bhojpuri, Angika, Magahi, , and theoretically... And we also
Bajjika and Maithili as dialects of Hindi in Bihar but say and instead of badi and choti
nothing as such which would be referred and
matra...( Something that seems to be absent in
recognised as 'Bihari'.
other region) but mess up with the pronunciation.
So Sheela would become sila...( or silwa) silsila
However, lately if posed with the same question,
would become shilshila.. We also mix र and
my answer has been in affirmative...and primarly
. So is र and र is .
because of love for the place.
Alright, so back to the same question. 3) We might be excellent with our Hindi vyakaran
and adept at all those , , क क र et
What is Bihari language? al or but we mess up with gender. So
though we know that dahi is khatta (grammatically)
a) Is it a different language? but in practice when we are speaking then we'll
say, ग .. .. I think we are fond
b) Is it a Hindi dialect? of using masculine gender for most of the things.
Although the interesting thing is that while writing,
c) Or is it Hindi? our sentence construction is correct. So in our
essays we would write और
Is it a different language: Am not a linguist but i .
would still want to believe that Bihari is not a
language. It has 'devnagri' script.. it has 'Hindi' 4) We don't like saying things straight. When was
grammar.. It doesn't have it's own script and the last time your name got pronounced as is. We
vyakaran.. so surely not a different language love suffixing. so Nina becomes Ninwa... rohit
would become rohitwa.. ruchi would become
Is it a Hindi Dialect: Not sure as how one would ruchiya.. khao would become khaiyebe.. nahao
define 'dialect' as? If i look at other 5 Bihar would become nahaiyebe.. andhera would be
dialects- Magahi, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Angika and andheriya and so on.. so each of the Hindi word

6. would have it's suffix according to what suits the
pronunciation... so'suffixing according to Sugga eats boont and sings sita ram sita ram
convenience' is one of the intrinsic characteristic Mummy would make
of Bihari Hindi. nenua and kadima ka tarkari today One is 'ek
tho'.. two is ' doo go' You sit on a peedha and
5) Then we don't even like answering straight. You when your eyes water when you cut the onion then
ask a question and you get another question as an that's 'jhons lagna'
answer. When somebody is screeching then he
is 'chichiya raha' You go to
Question: ?
school 'Bhihane' (Morning). Kapda feechna is
Answer: ?
washing clothes Okta jaana ( not ukta) is getting
bored. When you are stubborn then you
6) Fetish for affirmation: Like my friend Ejaz rightly
are 'thethar'
says that after every two sentence you would end
Jonk ( earthworm) is 'jhonkti'.. and mitti ka cup
up saying- " " :-)
(kulhar) is 'kaptee or cuptea' :-)
Butru kaan raha ( the kid id crying)
7) The use of ' ' , क ' instead of ' ' and Bartuhar or Kutumb are coming home to see the
' क '. I have actually always wondered about girl and even if they like her they would ask for
usage of hum in Bihar particularly. ' ' to me is an grand 'tillak'. Door is Kiwad and chouraha is
urdu word so i would understand it's wide usage in 'chaubatiya'
awadh belt but Hindi in Bihar does not have Urdu Samosa is Singhara, chahe baliya ho ya Aara
influence. Never understood how 'hum' got Gulab jamun is kala rasgulla and if you have sore
calibrated with Bihar's Hindi throat then do 'susum paani ka kulla' Desi daru
is 'taadi' while the meetha sugarcane is 'ketari'
8) As my sister sushmita says, Bihari Hindi exudes Cut the 'kasaili' with a 'Sarauta' ( betel nut cutter)
respect for one and everyone. So we say ' प' and the tarkari on a 'hasua'
' ' ( not ) instead of . 'ग ' used as a Eat 'boont ka saag' garnished with mirch and tel
that should be 'Karuwa' ( mustard oil). You go to
prefix for lot of words to suggest respect like:
ग, ग ...etc... maidan with a 'lota' and if you spot a big black
ant, then that's a 'khota'
9) Then we have super rich vocabulary which only
Go to 'kansaar' for 'bhunja bhunjane'
Biharis would understand. And well, it extends
When you get lost then that's 'bhutlaana'
beyond the popularly known 'burbak' and 'baklol
Polythene bags are 'Panni' and hard board would
be 'koot'
I have been trying to recollect the words which you
'Gaach' would be tree and 'fawa' is free :-
get to hear in Bihar only..
)Kheechad is "Kaado" while hibiscus is "arhul"
Handbag is 'jhola' and you store water in
Spontaneous ones.. :-)
a "ghaila".
So you make bhaat in tokna and eat in a chipli.
Mirch is ' Marchai' while chai is still a chai
Tarkari is made in kadhahiya with the help
You jamao the dahi in 'matkuri' while the kaccha
of cholni. You take out daal from the tokna with
aam is 'Tikola' and if there's a hailstorm then
the help of dabbu. Roti is rolled on a chokla with
that's called 'oola' Ribbon is 'feeta' and teekha
the help of belna
is 'teeta' You 'chilo chimdi on your kotha' in
The sisa ka sisi (glass bottle) has got a thepi
jaadey ka mausam and if the milk is lukewarm
You see your face in an Ena ( Not Aaina)
then it's called 'susum', Bindi is 'tikli' and a gold
You wipe your gor with a ghamchi
chain is a 'sikdi', Mattress is tosak you wrap
Sugga (parrot) has a 'laal lol'.
yourself in oodhna. Your head is 'kapar' while a

7. tattoo would be 'Godna. Wife is 'kaniyan' and my vocabulary. (Sorry.. bhocabulary.. that's the
Jeth is 'bhaisur' Jethani is 'gotni'.. while a sasur way we would pronounce it)
remains a 'sasur'. 'Biha- saadi' ( vivah- shaadi)
is the biggest celebration and if you didn't serve Anyways, the point is not to create the shabkosh
'Buniya ka laddu' then that's quite an but just to establish that Bihari has a distinct
embarrassment. 'shabd-kosh'.... that the way we speak is slightly
different.. that we have used all our freedom to
To see is 'laukna'... and to to slip is 'sasarna' and make it flexible... But at the end of the day it is
If you blink then that's 'matki marna' and if you HINDI.
limp then that's 'lengrana' ( not langarana).
?
Ok.ok ok...The list can only get longer... as i am By Richa Rai
writing this, am actually being able to think of so
many words which had almost become absent in
Saas and bahu: the eternal struggle
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the household affairs till the bride (bahu) arrives.
An exceprts from the book: ―Bhojpuri Kahawaten- Before the marriage, the mother-in-law is the
Ek Sanskritik Adhayan‖ written by late Satyadev housewife- and the boss. And she genuinely
Ojha and the Bhojpuri transcript from the book believes that she has the rights to meddle into all
produced hereunder is translated by his son the affairs within the family.
Santosh Ojha.
The saas feels threatened by the entry of
the bahu so she wants to dominate her (the bahu)
and underscore her powers.
A smart bahu slowly works her way to a status so
that her voice is heard within the family. She
exerts her personality and challenges the
unbridled powers of the saas.
In the olden days of child-marriage a saas could
easily establish her influence on the family; since
the age of the bahu has begun getting higher this
too has gone. The bahu would no longer meekly
subject herself to torture and let her saas control
her life. The bahu is ready to raise her voice
against her tyrannical saas.
There are many Bhojpuri kahavatein dealing with
this changing equation.
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The relationship between two women in a family is Any mother is keen to see her son married.
between a mother and her daughter, sister and (A bahu is critical to the extension of the family
sister, sisters-in law (nanad-bhabhi), daughters-in- tree). Her anxiety grows when her son becomes
law and mothers-in-law (saas-bahu). But the older. Many-a-time, the matrimonial proposal may
relationship between the mother-in-law (saas) and even break down when the enemies of the
the daughter-in-law (bahu) attains importance for groom‘s family create obstructions. The older the
the power-struggle in encapsulates, the power for son, the more suspicious is the prospective bride‘s
the upper hand in the affairs of the family. Not family. So, when the son does get married, it is
surprisingly we find more kahavatein on this natural for his mother to rejoice as in the
relationship. The role of the saas is paramount in following kahavat:

8. , He is away, and I am free to go wherever I wish,
And she is off to her mother’s place; and I can eat
प . whatever I want.
Having a son is lucky, But the saas returns and does what she is
traditionally expected to do, trouble and torture
Having a daughter-in-law is fortuitous! her bahu:
And, when the bahu enters the household, ,
the saas does not relinquish her powers to the
new bahu. To the contrary, she gets even more .
attached to them.
My saas feels a surge of affection for me,
,
And she singes my cheeks with glowing embers.
प क Saas regularly criticizes even the tiniest of
mistakes of the bahu and makes frequent
All saas’ are pious, sarcastic remarks. The bahu does not find these
funny at all and she starts retaliating.
All bahus are sinners.
क
The saas believes there really is no point in giving
any rights to such useless bahus, even in the
tiniest affairs of the household: क प ,
र क र, A manipulated lamp-wick,
Or a criticized bahu,
कर - क .
Both are counter-productive.
Respect your bahu, yes,
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But why let her touch the domestic vessels?
The bahu starts feeding her husband with real and
The saas shows her miserly attitude to imagined tales hersaas‘ tortures. And, over a
the bahu as mentioned in the kahavat: period of time, with such stories she is able to
influence her husband enough for him to develop
क , hatred towards his mother. The mother senses this
and laments:
कर, .
प प ,
In an outpouring of affection says the saas,
इ प र
Dig a little cavity into your litti, I will fill it up with
mattha (butter-milk) I nourished my son, he was my own,
In the days of yore it was rather common in The bahu arrives and cuts me off from my own.
households to serve the best portions of the meal
to the men of the family and the dregs to the bahu. The animosity intensifies and the saas is
No wonder the bahu would feel liberated when her devastated. Once when her son was unmarried
husband and saas were away: she longed for a bahu and now she can not stand
her.
र,क -क
प ,प ,
इ र, क -क प क क .

9. Let a bahu come, let a bahu go; do I care? क
My body burns when I see the bahu.
प क -प
The bahu keeps consolidating her position with her
husband who has now clearly turned anti-mother. The bed-clothes of saas
She now feels emboldened to start treating
her saas badly as said in this picturesque kahavat: Serves as the foot-wiper of the bahu
क र The break between the bahu and saas is
poignantly captured in the following kahavat.
क ,
क र,
क क र
र,
प प क Saas dies today,
My cultured bahu, since she has come, Cries tomorrow, the bahu.
Serves food from a two-spouted vessel. The bahu was never happy with the treatment
meted by her saas, right from the beginning.
Though there were some moments (especially
From one spout she pours buttermilk
when the saas helped out with the chores when
the bahu was in the family way) when the bahu felt
And amrit from the other, some emotional attachment to hersaas. Hence
the bahu weeps a bit, albeit a day late.
The old lady gets the sour buttermilk
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While she serves amrit to her man.
The relationship between the two women
@@@@ deteriorates perhaps due to the lack of
understanding between the two female
The bahu tries to dominate her saas by all means protagonists. Perhaps the saas should reconcile to
fair and foul. She even threatens: the fact that one day, over time, the bahu will be
ruling the roost in the family. Why not reconcile to
this situation early on?
क इ , प क र
इ पर
I will scream my lungs off, क
Enough for saas to vanish. Neither a well-fed son, nor a thieving bahu,
@@@@ Carry the family gains away.
Sure enough, the bahu starts dominating the Santosh Ojha
household. She rules the roost even as she takes
off on her saas ever so often:

10. Bihar Development Trust
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Integrity and Discipline. It has an outreach of 6000
families and employee strength of 40.
Bihar Development Trust has been founded on Bihar Development Trust is operating in Patna,
March 26, 2007 by management professionals Bhagalpur and Aurangabad Districts of Bihar.
from IRMA (Institute of Rural Management, Microfinance program provides credit and
ANAND) with a belief that professionally qualified insurance services and promotes savings and
youth should come back to Bihar and turn financial literacy among women members. BDT
entrepreneur to provide employment in their native has disbursed more than 5000 loans to women
state. The feeling was that Bihar Development borrowers with more than Rs.500 lakhs till date
Trust should act as an honest platform for with a repayment rate of 99.5% over last three
receiving support from Bihari and people who feel year. It has an outstanding of over Rs. 150 Lakh
strongly about the development of Bihar. Over the with around 3000 active borrowers. Tasar Silk
last three year, It is emerging as a platform for the Livelihood Program has organized 20 weavers in
youth who are passionate about Bihar to create Lodipur in form of Mutual Benefit Trust. It has been
and provide employment & services to benefit working with two more weavers‘ clusters with an
millions of people in Bihar. It is striving to to break outreach of 100-200 weavers with sales around
the scale barrier of non-profit sector. It has aimed Rs. 50 Lakh.
to demonstrate that professionals can turn
entrepreneur in Bihar and catalyze the growth of
economic activity with the help of poor people
which has been achieved to certain extent. Bihar
Development Trust is an idea to adapt GRAMEEN
and AMUL model to Bihar context and in different
sectors (manufacturing as well as services)
supported by most efficient technologies. It has
adopted a value chain approach for each
livelihood initiatives. Its vision is to make Bihar
most developed state of India in next 20 years. Its
mission is to build a US$20 billion enterprise in
Bihar by 2020 in areas of opportunities like
microfinance, handloom and handicrafts, fruits and
vegetable, Agricultural commodities, health care
and education, power and The Lodipur Bunkar Trust has been given share in
BPO(animation,graphics etc),carbon trading and the marketing company. It has provided drinking
tourism etc with an outreach of 10 million families. water facility, constructed drainage and cemented
Its core values are Ttransparency, Honesty, Faith,

11. the work place of weavers and conducted design
workshop with designers from NIFT, NID etc to
develop contemporary designs .Rickshaw Sangh
program enables cycle rickshaw drivers to own
rickshaws by accessing formal credit, repaid
through easy installments. BDT has partnered with
American India Foundation to implement this
program in Bhagalpur.
Bihar Development Trust has been founded by Dr.
Ravi Chandra and Mr. Dev Kumar Dubey on
March 26, 2007. They have studied together in
BDT is providing the rickshaw puller a new built Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA)
during 2004-2006.
rickshaw, identity card, municipal license, health,
medical, asset and life insurance. Dr. Ravi Chandra has graduated as dental
surgeon from Manipal University in 2003. He has
worked with Foundation of Ecological Security as
Community Mobilizer before joining IRMA in 2004.
He got rich management experience while working
in different kind of organization and situations in
small span of 11 months. His role in BDT is
networking, fund raising, external communication,
strategizing, designing and starting new programs
besides documentary, legal and financial
compliance to various statutory bodies and donor
agencies. He is good at networking, planning,
training, communicating etc and in data
management, documentation etc.
BDT has improved the livelihood of 100 rickshaw Mr. Dev Kumar Dubey had worked in Employee
puller under this program in Bhagalpur. Farmer Provident Fund (EPF) under Ministry of Labour as
Account Officer during 1998-2004. He joined IRMA
Livelihood Program is providing services like
in 2004 after quitting his job. He did not joined
Institution building, input supply at fair price, Agri SKS Microfinance from where he got an offer
Extension services, market linkages, Credit to during campus placement. He spent one year
farmers at the doorstep to improve their earnings. working with NGOs in Bhagalpur working in SHG-
BDT has an outreach of 500-700 farmers and Bank Linkage program besides exploring
more than 20 farmer clubs have been formed in opportunities in social entrepreneurship. His role in
Aurangabad District. Bamboo Based Livelihood BDT is day to day operations management,
providing guidance to team members of various
Program is providing micro credit and market
programmes, meeting government officials,
linkage assistance to 50 farmers to promote ensuring proper implementation of programmes &
bamboo cultivation & employment to 200 women. utilization of funds, maintaining internal control
NABARD supported manufacturing center in systems etc. He provides strategic inputs from
Kahalgaon area of Bhagalpur District has been set ground while the development programmes are
up. designed by Dr. Ravi Chandra
Mr. Diwakar Vats joined Bihar Development Trust
in 2008 after quitting his corporate job in DLF
Group Company. He has done his post graduate
diploma in business management from
International Management Institute, New Delhi in
2007. He is helping both of them in planning and
strategy while in running day to day operations at
Patna and doing local networking.

12. Much Needed Change and Development in Bihar, necessary to
avoid revolution
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The question is, when our politicians and This job shall not take more than one/two year/s. I
bureaucrats shall began thinking as a facilitators? can further elaborate if there is such need.
Like Haryana, Gujarat, Tamil etc…
Regarding economic development in Bihar, you do
Right from CM to general public, there is immense not have to go far, checkout Haryana, Gujarat,
need to think and act in terms of development, Tamil, AP, Karnataka, Maharashtra, what they are
removing corruption, providing civic amenities, providing, why Bihar cannot provide. Free zones
only then; we can raise the living status in Bihar like all these states are providing.
above African States.
1. We have a lot of land unfit for agriculture and
Governance and law enforcement in Bihar is not inhabitations, identify them and allot for the
better than any African state. We have almost development of Economic free zones, we can take
defunct civic system, policing, judiciary, health, help of infrastructure developers, to develop shade
education system…. everything is rotten. Civic 40%, plots on lease 50%, roads drainage 10% and
system does not take care of cleaning drainage, power for these free zones.
road, hygiene in hospital, restaurants, Dhaba,
Hotels, there is almost no honest inspector who 2. Every districts shall have at least one such free
works honestly for the enforce of law just for zone
salary. Police and judiciary is another most rotten,
corrupt and junk system. You have to pay tons of 3. Make all investment and commercial approval
money to get your legal and rightful work done, of simple, online and fully computerized in order to
course you can get all illegal work done if you reduce human interface resulting into reducing
spend money as the system demand. corruption and fast processing.
We have plethora of law, but their enforcement is 4. Deploy development and facilitator friendly
almost nil and these laws are selectively used for official in guidance and approval. It shall be their
targeting people at convenience for making money duty to complete the task of approval in time
or suppressing opponents by the bureaucrats, bound period and get the same from central govt.
politicians, police, judiciary. Do you think our chief if any. Approval in services sectors should be in
minster Mr. Nitish Kumar, does not know all these, one day. For instance, if you want to start any
but what he has done so far is not sufficient but business in Dubai, it needs one day in Chamber of
cosmetics. Commerce and Ministry of Industry and Economy,
2-3 days for labor visa in labor department.
Did he setup a working group till date even after
over 5 years in power. Below are some very 5. The delivery mechanism must have
common ideas, but need real zeal and honest incentive/bonus for efficiency and achievement of
approach in implementation: targets. This job is not tedious and must not take
more than one/two year/s. The government needs
1. He can setup separate working to concentrate on the development of social
groups/committees on how to get rid of corruption sectors:
in police, bureaucracy, judiciary and politics.
a) Re-investment in health, education, technical
2. He can request help from the best agencies in and professional education sectors on mass scale
the world in Policing, Judiciary, bureaucracy and by govt. and private sector. Old requirement like 5
Political System. Hire services in respective fields acre land (impossible in city areas / or high entry
from best governed countries like UK, US, capital barrier, running period) should be modified.
Germany, Netherland in order to revitalize the Shall be complemented with quality teaching,
otherwise defunct corrupt system and enforce a sufficient equipment, laboratory, building and
change for better, understand how these placement.
developed countries evolved their system from the
old legacy.. By the way we are still carrying the b) It shall approve as much as possible colleges
leftover of the old British system, which have been in medical, engineering, management, IT etc.
completely revamped in their own countries.
c) Strengthens Municipalities / rural
3. He can simplify most of the rules for better governance and all honest and hardworking NGOs
understanding by common people and easy in all communities. Deploy honest inspector for
implementation by agencies.

13. implementation of rules and hygiene though out of doing cosmetic change and creating political
states. hype (say public display of wealth of babus /netas,
cycle scheme, etc...) we need real reforms (reform
d) Some of us in Bihar, say politicians, on policing, reform in judiciary, reform in
intelligentsia as well as few general public believe, bureaucracy and politics), We want to stop
that it is the people of Bihar, responsible for the leakages of resources from plan and non-plan
poor state of affairs, including corruption, expenditure and its implementation in real sense
underdevelopment, poverty, poor governance etc. say 99% like the western countries.
in Bihar. But I disagree, the people of Bihar, gave
a long span of time to Congress for change and
development. Unfortunately Congress failed. Then The evolutions in Middle-East & African countries
public gave almost 15 years to RJD. Baring the are against poverty, low income, high inflation, and
commendable change in psycho-social concentration of wealth in few hands (mostly
engineering for backward classes, RJD failed in politician/industrialist), corruption in police,
maintaining law and order, controlling of corruption bureaucracy, judiciary and politics. Situation in
and much needed development say roads, Bihar is not different from these countries the only
employments, etc... Now the same public gave exception is we have power to change the head of
mandate to JDU-BJP for the very much needed Govt. every five year, however the junk system
change in Bihar. remains the same.
We do not have much time left, we need to
What are the options left with the people other achieve real tangible change or the time is not far
than mandate to change the government? Some when we are faced with the same situation as it is
of them have already taken arms in their hand are faced in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yaman etc.............
called Moist. The next option left for the public is
come on the street in mass i.e. revolution.
(The writer Mohammad Irfan, (from Muzaffarpur) is
e) Years of JDU-BJP rule is already finished and it Finance Director with a large overseas group, and
is running in the second span for 10 years. This is has exposure in overseas countries and their
right time to pull all the strings of development, governance. E-mail:irfanmd73@hotmail.com)
control on corruption and began reforms. Instead
Mithilanchal: - One more proposed division of Bihar
By Shirish Mishra
Day before yesterday, I was there on a visit to Being a human being, by very nature, I feel to be
orkut TRB when I noticed such a similar issue. antagonistic to any sort of division created among
And I have noticed such people also who question human beings. If proposed and feasible, I won‘t
my Maithili origin itself when they see me even hesitate supporting the reunite of India &
campaigning for Bihar. This has inspired me to Pakistan. And I guess I am no exception, I hardly
write in my views on this topic. see an Indian not criticizing the leaders,
responsible for the separation of India & Pakistan.
Separation of Jharkhand, is still creating severe
pain inside my heart and makes me feel suffer.
Though, division within nation is something
different in nature and doesn‘t define separation in
true meaning since they are meant just for the
purpose of better administration and more focused
governance and development efforts. However,
this seems to be futile in India. Here, we are
desperate to fight with each other; we just need to
have some theory (baseless/insensible) whether
it‘s on Hindu-Muslim, Maithili- Bhojpuri, Tamil-
Hindi, Hindi- Marathi, Brahmin-Shudra etc. Giving
it an official recognition will only ignite our
monstrous mind that teaches us fighting.

14. Nitish led NDA government and Mithilanchal:-
That makes me say with a strong belief that
I have met some so called intellectuals, who separation is no solution but like one more feast
accuse this government of being biased towards being organized for vultures. Solution is our
Mithilanchal region. I honestly don‘t have any idea honesty and determination to sort out our
how true accusation this is! However, I think Nitish problems. Our awareness to our rights and
government is trying to improve things, and he has responsibilities! Donating 1000 rupees to a needy
no magic stick that he can make Bihar ―USA‖ over will mean a little but not much as he/she will finish
a night. It will take time and mean while we have to it just in some time and again look for the donor.
assess if this government is really apathetic to the Making a person aware of his/her rights and
concerns of Mithilanchal. In that case, we can responsibilities means
raise our voice in a democratic manner, we can
protest, we can ask for data. We can ask for making a person of spirit and courage. It makes
information, and I am sure we will get the him/her capable of doing anything that he/she
deserved. wants! TRB has already started working on it and
we hope it continues doing the same. Creation of
Focused governance and development efforts:- Mithilanchal may be a very good option to some
greedy people, who are seeking their political
Being rational, I understand what it means, and I career. Beware! Before they fool us.
do agree with it. However, this is something I do
not find to be compulsory. Development and I do acknowledge the pathetic situation of
prosperity come by our honest efforts, our Mithilanchal and state that it needs much more
determined will, and our own desire of getting attention as compared to any other part of Bihar.
them. It won‘t be a hyperbole, if I say, in And I do will to fight for this right. I do will to work
democracy; state gets a government as it is. It‘s on this campaign. But I won‘t accept any sort of
just the very true reflection of its own public. As separation in any case. And I firmly believe, if we
examples, you may see the living legendries like will honestly fight for the development of this
Lalu, Shhabuddun, D.P Yadav and many more. region, we will get what we deserve.
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17. BENCON 2011
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Last month (21st May 2011) we organized our first 6. We also got great support & participation from
BEN CONFERENCE in Bodh Gaya. It has created various govt departments was another eye-
a wave of excitement and energy among the opener. We didn't know Industry Commissioner
young entrepreneurs, students/teacher and locals (Principal Secy), CK Mishra jee till 1 week before
of Gaya. The energy and hunger for creating jobs the event and he bought in the idea and promised
and being a part of changing Bihar was very to sponsor the event. He also sent two of his
visible and palpable. This event was unique in senior team members to the event, who presented
many ways and the way event got organized and their case very well. The ease with which we could
hosted itself had some lessons and reasons to walk in & reach-out to to various departments in
celebrate secretariat with no political connection was an
example that entrepreneurs interested in Bihar
should take note of.
1. We had no formal organization or paid staff to 7. The participation of 60+ students of Gaya
conduct this event. It was organized in an open College in the event at a short notice gave a very
source / wikinomics model. encouraging signal. The way they were able to put
2. It started as an idea discussed over facebook together a professional show and got trained in
and skype between Kumar Ankit, Naveen Sharma few hours, put up a Rangoli under Lalita jee
in Gaya and Santosh Pandey in Europe, Atul guidance.
Kumar in USA. Many of them had never met in 8. The way Prof Madhukar Shukla, Prof Piyush
person so it was an example of how the rules of Sinha, Prof Ashok Ghosh, Prof Nupur Bose and
collaboration and doing business in the 21st many others supported the event and offered their
century are changing. networks and guidance was a symbol of the
3. There were lot of skeptics, critics, resources and guidance that was available.
cheerleaders, supporters and very strong 9. The participation of investing community
supporters. Like all new ventures we had a fair especiall two young girls from Mumabi based
share of all of these. As the event started to catch funds was encouraging, the way many of the
momentus more and more people started joing in speakers agreed to come on their own (in fact paid
but initially some of the key members were also registration feed also) was a symbol of the event,
skeptical abou the possibility of pulling off an event the participation of media ( Prabhat Khabar,
like this in Bihar especially in summer of Gaya Hindustan, Hindustan Times, Telegraph, Mint,
(when temperatures touched 45 centigrade often). Appan Samachar and many more was very
4. The fact that 150+ entrepreneurs were able to encouraging) and symbol of the fact that media,
converge at one venue on a saturday morning in professors and investors are available if you put-
the heat of gaya itself was a good reflection of the up a team and lay out a vision and mission.
"hunger" and "need gap" that exists in Bihar. 10. The way multiple orgs like Bihar Industries
5. The fact that people like Ajay Kumar Gupta Association, Bihar Udaya, Tie-Patna, Prachin
from Noida ( via Santosh Pandey) , Tanya Prasad Bharat, Green Leaf Energy, Sulabh International,
from Singapore (via Atul Kumar), Akhourie Nites Prabhat Khabar, Apnacircle.com, Appan
(via Kumar Ankit) offered financial sponsorship for Samachar, Kamdhenu, Karma Society and many
the event which was just an unproven idea and others collaborated to make this event possible is
experiment also proved the need for many such something to take note of and get inspired.
events.

18. 11. During this event, Ram Kumar & Tanvi Nalin , from Prabhat Khabar and also managed the Patna
who were managing the speakers, partners and logistics of guests
sponsors from Delhi flew to Gaya to host the 13. After the event, many enterepeneurial ideas
event. Ranbir Bahadur of Bihar Uday, came from and partnerships are in discussion but those
Caclutta and took charge of registrations, Kavi discussions obviously in closed rooms and private
Kumar from Delhi, Santosh Singh from Chennai, discussions, we should see the fruits of BEN being
Prof Ashok Ghosh and Nupur Bose from Patna, launched in near future. Abhishek Kr Singha &
Mrs Jyoti Sinha and her team (Kamdhenu) from Kaushalendra discovered each other and are
Patna, Rajiv Kumar came from Maner with his leveraging each other's networks and resources,
world famous Ladoos, Ajay Gupta from Noida and Ravi Chandra found a wider net for his venture.
team not only sponsored the event but also 14. One of the highlights of the event was after the
supported as a volunteer/team, Akhourie Ntesh event when enterpeneurs were given a change to
and his team not only sponsorsed the evnt but present the idea on stage and many did present
also offered their cars and transportation help, their ideas ( Image Bihar and many others).
Naveen Sharma jee stayed in Gaya for those few
days inspite of his crazy enterepreurial life as CEO
of Prachin Bharat, Ranjan Verma and Kumar Ankit
(locals from Gaya), pulled all their local network of
freind sand family to the event ( Kumar Ankit's
younger sister, Lisa, a +2 student, helped us call
media people), Kumar Rahul and Manish Dayal,
Aunty and uncle , , friends all came together to
make the event a success .. this was a good
showcase of EVENT 3.0 or Org 3.9 where events
can be executed at a short notice using the power
of networks and collaboration.
Many many more results and learnings. We also
learnt some hard lessons The promised 10 lakh
INR from Indian Oil and 5 lakhINR from BPCL
didn't come but we are sure more will come in next
event ... the quality of mikes and sound system at
event venue could have been better and so on ..
but then we have the next event to plan much
longer for .. miles to go and miles to go before we
sleep but the journey of a thousand miles beging
with a single small step .. we took it .. now the
topic of discussion in Bihar is changing from
corruption and politics to job creation and
entrepreneurship and that itself is a big giant leap
forward ….. on the lines of TEDx, we hope to have
smaller events in various cities of bihar (
Muzzafarpur, Chhapra, Hajipur, Darbhanga,
Madhubani, Saharsa) and also maybe host the
event at a national or international venue ... more
to come later ..
12. As a result of the event, many enterpreneurs
discovered each other, their business and possible
partnership opportunities, sales opportunities ..
BEN discovered Abhihek Kumar Sinha, who single
handedly manged the show and logistics in Patna
and got the brochure published with some help

19. Book Review ‘The Plain Truth” by N.K.Singh
A tale a tale story of the rampant corruption in the Civil Services
Kissa Kursi Ka, the sugar scam, Airbus bribery
N K Singh is the CBI officer who arrested Indira and St Kitts forgery were no ordinary criminal
Gandhi in 1977. Forced to return to his home cases investigated by the CBI. Singh describes in
cadre in Orissa after she returned to power, this some detail how these important functionaries of
courageous and diligent Indian Police Service the Indian State shamelessly subverted the
officer was brought back to the CBI by Prime system to sabotage the investigation and the
Minister V P Singh's government. judicial process. Facts are indeed stranger than
fiction.”
One of the first cases he was assigned was the St
Kitts forgeries. Unfortunately, his meticulous Singh gives glimpses of the deep-rooted nexus
investigation into the case earned the wrath of the that has developed between crime, criminals,
next prime minister, Chandra Shekhar, who politicians and civil servants. How willingly senior
transferred him out of the agency. civil servants connived at subverting the rule of law
to please their political masters. Blinded by their
ambition, some of them became willing
In the second of six extracts from his fascinating
accessories to criminal acts. They told lies,
biography, The Plain Truth, N K Singh discloses
committed acts of perjury, theft, and destruction of
the genesis of the St Kitts investigation which has
now resulted in a chargesheet against former evidence, but managed to go scot free. On the
contrary, they were duly rewarded for their criminal
prime minister P V Narasimha Rao.
role. These are the types who manage to reach
the top of the ladder more easily. The numbers of
such civil servants—pliable, loyal to the powers
Outlook writes about this book “THE Plain Truth, that are, unscrupulous and ambitious—are
as told by N.K. Singh, is going to shock and unfortunately multiplying. They are the real villains.
dismay many of its readers. The insider's account The criminal-politician link cannot operate without
of events that have become an important part of them.
India's contemporary political history makes
compelling reading. The media has not stopped
discussing them, but this book fills some important It is a very readable, but a serious book. It raises
gaps in our knowledge about these cases. some fundamental questions about our political
and administrative system. These questions need
to be confronted and solutions found, if our
Singh's story confirms our worst fears about the democratic system is to survive. I recommend this
extent of politicisation of civil service and such vital book to all, irrespective of the fact whether they
investigation agencies as the CBI. Law doesn't agree with the author's version of the events or
appear to take its own course when it comes to not. It is good that such books are coming out. The
influential and powerful persons, whatever the villains who strut around as heroes need to be
rhetoric. exposed.
The book unmasks a number of senior political
leaders and well-known civil servants, some of
whom still hold very important positions. Cases like
The Curious Case of Bihari Cuisine: Part 1
(Part 2 will be published in the next edition of the webzine)
Punjabi and Bihari cuisine‖. A pity, the Bihari
Despite the many Biharis across the country, and cuisine has failed to grab the attention of other
across the continents (Mauritius, countries of the fellow countrymen? Or is it that the Biharis have
West Indies and Fiji come to my mind easily), and failed to position their cuisine as something
Biharis in Bihar, of course, there is no popular unique. I understand that there is Gujrati thali,
recognition of the Bihari cuisine. We do not have Bangal ranna, Andhra mealsu and Kashmiri
restaurants announcing in big and bold that they waazwaan. But, alas, no Bihari cuisine. How
serve authentic Bihari cuisine. No Bihari food come?
festivals in five star- or even three star- hotels. Not
even does the friendly neighbourhood restaurant
announce: ―Specialist in Chinese, Mughalai,

20. It is my humble endeavour in this post to educate A cousin of the above is maad-bhaat-
the non-Bihari reader on the delights of the Bihari chokha. Maad, the starchy fluid drained out of the
cuisine. pan (tasla) during an intermediate stage of cooking
rice is used as a substitute to daal. Sometimes
Maybe us Biharis are to be blamed. When asked relished even without the chokha- with a piece of a
for our favourite meal, we just utter ―Daal-bhaat- pickle. Nimki, or the sour lemon pickle, made from
chokha‖. Or sometimes even ―maad-bhaat- large lemons, being a favourite. Sure there will be
chokha‖. I am in love with the aforementioned stuff a quantity of maad left behind on your plate. Just
as well; I am a Bihari and I understand the lift up the cheepa, or chhipli (plate in Bhojpuri-
delicacy of what other people would believe is speak) to your lips and quaff the residual elixir!
rather pedestrian.
You find the above combos too cumbersome, all
this effort to fix your daal-bhaat, or maad-bhaat?
Fret not, you can always feast on khichdi, the
ultimate comfort food. I have dwelt on this in much
detail in earlier posts of mine. Suffice it to say that
should you wish to have thekhichdi, do not forget
its traditional accompaniments as mentioned in the
following ditty:
―Khichdi ke chaar yaar,
Dahi, papad, ghee, achaar.‖
Daal is something which all of us Indians have
regularly, albeit with varying differences. But have
you had the Bihari daal? Arhar dal, just watered
down so, with a heavenly chhaunk of ―panch-
phoran”? (Can you visualize the description of this
dish in fancy five star restaurants: ―Toor lentils,
cooked to the right consistency with perfection and
seasoned with a unique, mouth-watering
combination of five spices‖.)
Oh, you are not in favour of chaawal, at all, and
you wish to try some alternate stuff? What
about Janera ke khichdi? Khichdi made of corn?
Or maybe you are a wheat afficionado. Multiple
delicacies beckon you! Roti and paratha are
mundane. Maybe you should try some varieties
ofmakuni. Makuni of different pedigrees. Makuni is
And chokha, the exotic mashed potatoes with a what others would callbharwaan paratha. With
liberal touch of mustard oil and a sprinkling of salt. either mashed potatoes, or phool-
Some would also add to it a burnt- and mashed- gobhi(cauliflower), or murai (radish) as the filling.
red chilli to impart to it spiciness and an exotic Technically correct. But this description equates it
taste.Bhaat, you exclaim is the mundane rice? to the heavily commercial Punjabi fare and misses
Well, mundane the rice may be, but have you out on the unique combo of the Bihari spices,
experimented with various types of rice? Usina specially the two jewels in the spicy
chaawal (parboiled rice) or Arwaa chawal (the crown: ajwain and mangarial. Don‘t understand?
long-grained rice, with a flavour of its own? And Head out for a dinner with a Bihari family!
either variety of rice is cooked with varying
degrees of consistency, depending upon the family The cuisine of Bihar is not limited
traditions passed down the centuries. to chawal, roti alone. You should seek out the

21. vegetables that the Biharis eat. Lauki, konhda, consider in their scheme of culinary activities? The
nenua, jheenga etc. But the king of all Bihar simple answer is, they are not aware of the magic
vegetables would be parwal. Parwal is rather you can work with the imperial parwal.
unique to Bihar and to some other parts of the
East. (Notably in Bengal, where it is called potol. In It can be made into a bhujiya (not to be confused
fact, the Bengalis are so fond of it, some of them with Haldiram, Bikaneri or generally speaking, the
even occasionally name their offspring, Potol!). Rajsthani bhujiya- those are made of plain or
spiced besan); sautéed slices of parwal with
potato or on its own. (What a delight it is to crunch
those lovely crisp parwal seeds!). It can be a
gravy sabzi, either in glorious isolation or
combined with aloo. You can halve
each parwal and stuff it with a mix of spices- and
you getkaluanji or bharwaan parwal. You could
mash some boiled parwal, throw in a few table-
spoonfuls of mustard oil and spices, salt, to taste
and you get parwal ka chokha. Or, you can even
prepare a totally delightfulmithai with it. Just that
instead of filling it with spices, stuff it
withkhowa and dry fruits. Parwal ki mithai!
You said you do not quite enjoy green vegetables?
Maybe you should try a combination of veggies
and some other botanical produce as well! Like
pieces of vegetables coated with a batter of gram
If you happen to come to our local market and see flour-besan- and deep fried in oil. Sounds familiar?
a throng of men and women around the rare shop Of course this is bajkaa, aka ―pakoda‖ in all-India
that sells parwal, you can be sure that the speak. Or would you prefer green leaves wrapped
customers are nearly all Biharis or Bengalis. Each in a batter of besan; ―rinkwachch”? (Aka patra in
one in the crowd pressing this little yellow- Gujarati, one of those famous starters of a
speckled green sabzi between his or her finger- Gujarati thali, farsaan). If you really do want to
tips and evaluating if the parwal was ―fresh‖ or avoid vegetables, worry not, the Bihar cuisine
―boodha‖ (over-ripe). Some would even break this has khandera, cuboids of fried besan cooked in a
tender vegetable between their fingers. If it gave spicy gravy. Best relished withchaawal. And so
way with a smart, crisp snap, then it was fresh many other varieties!
(and by extension the entire lot). If it gave way
reluctantly and ended up as a squishy mass then it You want more adventures into Bihari cuisine?
was boodha! Wait a bit, I will soon write about the ubiquitous,
and multi-faceted, ―sattu‖.
But why this lavish attention on parwal, a sabzi
which rest of the country does not even bother to Santosh Ojha
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22. Leaders Inspire – Perspective on leadership style of M S Dhoni & Nitish Kumar
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enough to admit weaknesses. Dhoni didn‘t mince
any words in castigating his fielders publicly and
even accepted that few decisions didn‘t work to
the plan.
Likewise, Nitish has publicly rebuked his own party
men and allies on many programs and policies. At
the same time, one must acknowledge that they
have set right goals,
worked with their teams to strive together as a
team. As the captain of the team, both have been
It takes moment in life to make it special, dream of articulating there plans and vision for the teams.
a generation, imagination of a nation, heartbeat of
billions, and then the prayers finally were Get the best out of limited means
answered. India lifted the world cup 2011 with
great pride and emotions. What Dhoni and his One of the most inspiring aspects of both these
men have achieved will remain etched in the leaders has been how they have struck to the
memory of our generation forever. Tears of joy, basics of managing their teams. With limited
cries of triumph, and a sense of gratitude filled our resources at hand, they have ensured that they
hearts as the realization of world cup victory finally get the best out of each situation to work to their
sinks to the nation. team‘s advantage and thereby imbibing the culture
of self-belief and resilience. Despite India‘s limited
Celebrations still continue and what really stood bowling attack, Dhoni marshaled team well and
out was the cool and razor sharp finesse which always had an ace in his weak link whenever
Dhoni displayed in his leadership style throughout opposition came to bat. Though Indian bowling
the tournament. Perhaps he summed it up himself attack never looked lethal, but it was very effective
when he said how his decisions could have been and result oriented when it came to the
questioned. But as lady luck had it, Dhoni will crunch. Dean Jones went to the extent of saying
smile all the way to the glorious annals of that Dhoni must be dreaming to win this world cup
cricketing history, perhaps the most successful with current Indian bowling attack. With this
India captain ever. victory, he has really proved that dreams do come
true if only we work as a team.
One can‘t help but draw parallels of his leadership
style with another great leader Nitish Kumar who Similarly Nitish has always worked under
was the Man of Year 2010 for bringing a ray of constraints, he never had the luxury to spend on
hope and faith in the murky theater of Indian public welfare programs, with limited resources
politics. Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister of Bihar, won and little financial aid he has been able to transfer
his world cup (Bihar elections) consecutively by a state by just ensuring that limited resources are
transforming the electoral dynamics in Bihar. Both put to optimum utilization. He has proved that
Nitish and Dhoni have uncanny similarities in the good governance can lead to electoral success
way they operate and bring out few unique and one need not always fall back on petty politics
dimensions of their leadership style in their own of caste and chicanery to achieve political victory.
sphere of influence. They have displayed Despite low per capita income & investment,
remarkably identical traits and style which really lowest Credit deposit ratio in the country, Bihar
demonstrates similarity in their leadership style has had the 2nd highest growth rate in the country
and ability to influence outcomes. for the last 5 years. Bihar chief minister got
applauds from none other than Melinda Gates for
Communication is the key his achievements in increasing the immunization
rate in Bihar . ―In 2005, when Nitish Kumar
Dhoni has always spoken his mind out on every became the chief minister of Bihar, the burden of
aspect of Indian cricket. Often criticized for being disease in the state was massive. It also had a low
too blunt, he has never been a favorite of his immunization rate, 33 per cent compared to the
bosses in BCCI. Nitish Kumar also stands out for global average of 70 per cent. By 2010, however,
being upfront and plain talks, he has often earned Bihar‘s rate had risen to 66 per cent,‖ said
wrath of media, alliance partners and even his own Melinda.
team members for speaking his mind out. Another
interesting aspect that stands out of Dhoni and Lead from the front
Nitish is the way they have been humble and open