History can be fade as time passes but can't be demolished by virtue of anything . Bihar had witnessed Ashoka , Chanakaya , Gautam Buddha , Mahavira , Guru Gobind Singh and many more who have not only enlightened "Patliputra " but whole world . Bihar has been a major centre of learning, home to the ancient universities of Nalanda (established in 450 CE) and Vikramshila (established in 783 AD). It was a perfect Demesne of knowledge and culture.
Talking about recent times , this was land of revolutions and reforms , forget not to mention the famous "Sampurna Kranti" of 1974 which reached whole nation against icky governance of mighty Indira Gandhi . But i would like to share - state which i have witnessed myself as a child, a teenager, a student and a common bihari. Born and brought up in Bihar myself had witnessed many atrocities happening by bihari on bihari, and by non-bihari on bihari . (FYI - "Bihari" word was mainly famous after revolution of 1974.) . When whole India was going through economic Liberalisation and globalization , Bihar was going into age of darkness . No one else to blame but only "we" . Those were days of Caste politics, general elections was war between two parties where everyone was ready to shed blood for power. When other states were busy wooing MNCs to set up industry in their demesne , this state was busy getting rid of skirmish going between so called "Netas" and "Bada Babus" . At one hand "Netas" were busy making mansions and earning ample so that they could fed there 4-5 generations, on other hand common masses were striving hard to earn enough to survive . No Proper water to drink , no roads to travel , no electricity , poor shape of industries(specially sugar Industries) this was only left for common masses. At this point of time common people had two options, one - migrate to other places for earning livelihood , two - study enough to get into top educational institutions to have a better life. Unlike Gujratis , and marathi folks we had no other options . We did both , and by this moment we had set an corky example of democracy.
Trauma didn't stopped here only , it continued even further . By this time we became an Onomatopoeia of "bad ass" . Credited by other fellow indians , every where our misdeeds were projected with lots of masalas and deeds no one cared about. Atrocities in Assam and Maharashtra is one the many bright examples were INDIAN who were Bihari's were ruthlessly beaten up by INDIAN who were non-Biharis. Natural calamities like flood etc proved to be icing on cake .Except terrorism from osama this piece of land had by this time witnessed all type of blood shed , whether it was naxalities or gansters backed up by "Netas".
By this time i was completing my high school , and as a growing kid i too was made too believe that i have to choose one among the two options irrespective of interest and any other moral grounds. Students were crazy after preparation of IIT-JEE , UPSC , Medical , they were afraid to focus on any extra-curricular activities as that might lead to waste some unnecessary time . Teachers were busy taking tutions outside school, police were busy making ample of money to bribe senior officials for promotions.People were ashamed of telling world that they were "Bihari" .Democracy was lying in the graveyard along with "pride of being Bihari".
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