The grinding sound of the tyres of the Jet Airways Airbus as it touched down at the runway of Jayaprakash Narayan Airport in Patna, jolted me out of analysing whose Waterloo Bihar would be — Modi's, Nitish's or Lalu's. One had reached Patna in 1 hour and 45 minutes from Delhi. Patna was was once, I couldn't help thinking, Patlipuitra, capital of Magadh, that was under Samrat Ashok possibly the greatest empire ever. He ruled under the advice of the wily Chanakya, whose state-craft and political intuition are legendary. Sometime one wonders whether some of the stories we have heard are myths — Now the state craft is driven by caste calculations.