VISITORS to Kalyan Bigha can spot the three spanking new structures from a distance. They stand out over the farmland on both sides of the road. Indeed, there are now four roads, all laid after 2005, connecting the village. “Earlier, we had to walk through fields to reach the nearest railway station, six kilometres away. But now we have a motorable road and the distance has been reduced to 2.5 km,” acknowledges Dr Ramanujan Singh, a young doctor who was also born in this village—like Bihar’s chief minister, Nitish Kumar.