Vikas Kumar Jha is a journalist and an author
Vikas Kumar Jha’s book ‘Criminalisation of Politics’ examines how politics in Bihar became more defined by violence, and lack of law and order, in the 1990s, and how this phenomenon was driven by caste dynamics, inept institutions, and a skewed system.
The leader of the opposition in Bihar Assembly joins issue with Laloo Yadav - <a href=full.asp?fodname=20030721&fname=laloo&sid=1 target=_blank> The Sangh People Were Conspiring To Kill JP</a> - and says if Laloo writes a book, well, he'd write one t
Yet another poll gimmick? After his <i>Maha Lathi Ralla </i>, what's behind Laloo's recently announced plans to write a book about the period from the 1974 student movement to the Janata Party government and the role RSS played in it?
In Bihar, it has been an era of history-sheeters and 'muscle-men' MLAs and MPs for the last two decades or so. Only the 'fittest' among these manage to survive.
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