Umesh Kumar Ray is a Bihar-based independent journalist
Bihar’s once-thriving industrial belt, from Marhowrah to Mokama, is now marked by abandoned plants that tell a story of policy failures, political neglect and disappearing jobs, forcing hundreds of thousands to migrate out of the state in search of work.
With only two reserved seats and very little political clout, Bihar’s Adivasis are battling against invisibility and ensuring their voice is heard in a state that seems to have forgotten them.
With Sitamarhi in Bihar included in the central government’s Ramayan Circuit list, Sita’s birthplace may finally get the same stature as Ram’s in Ayodhya
Political parties in Bihar are trying hard to woo members of Extremely Backward Classes, a loose collection of more than a 100 small, heterogeneous castes
The former poll strategist of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is carving out a third corner in the Bihar contest by building a party of the ‘corporate’ type to woo voters from both sides of the NDA/INDIA fight
Socio-legal issues are impacting the process of rehabilitating rescued children and also making them vulnerable to re-trafficking
In a small Darjeeling village, locals are keeping alive a 200-years-old tradition of erecting benches to memorialise their dead.
First-time MP from the Buxar Lok Sabha seat, Sudhakar Singh hopes to take up agrarian issues
One of the youngest Dalit MPs Shambhavi Choudhary plans to focus on connectivity to schools, colleges and hospitals, women and jobs
On his way to the hallowed chamber of Parliament, OBC leader Sudama Prasad defeated a BJP stalwart in Arrah and ensured CPI-ML’s entry into Parliament after more than three decades
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