Bihar’s New Political Grammar
Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj is redrawing the political map of India’s most restless State. In Bihar, politics is not a spectator sport but a way of life. “We Biharis never stop opening the twin doors of railways and politics,” a young man from Bihari working at a Pune restaurant quipped to me. He may not own a smartphone, but he can recite the electoral arithmetic of his constituency with ease. Few other states live and breathe politics with such intensity. From the socialist awakenings of...
