Dear Mr Sharma,
In most countries people empathise with those who are victims of violence. None of my friends react in this way. If you are asked about victims of violence and deportation, then innocent Biharis are one of the biggest victims in India after Indian Muslims and Dalits. I pity the poor. Some points to ask your friends:- Which state were Kashmiri Pandits deported from? Bihar or Kashmir? Which state were Christians recently killed? Bihar or Orissa? Which city were young woman attacked in a bar? Mangalore or Patna? Which states are the Naxal groups active? Bihar, Jharkand, Maharashtra, Andra Pradesh, Bengal, UP? or all of them? Which state has had clashes between the Dera and Sikh religious groups? Bihar or Punjab? Which state has had the most anti-Mulsims pogroms? Bihar or Gujarat or Maharashtra or Assam? Which state is the crime capital of India? Delhi, UP or Bihar? Which states have had serious seperatist struggles in India? Bihar, Kashmir, Punjab, Assam, and other NE States? Which state has been destroyed by 15 years of Lalu rule? Bihar or everyone else? Which state was the Rupee, Maurya, Gupta, Pala and Suri dynasties based? Which state is Bengali and Hindi state languages? despite Bengalis being a migrant minority propulation? Bihar or Bengal? Which state were tribals attacked recently? Bihar or Assam? Perhaps you would like to add to your friends that in the space of 4 years Bihar, yes Bihar, has transformed itself from a basket case and on to the development track. The state has had double digit growth rates for 3 of the last 4 years (Govt of India data). The law and order situation has improved (Govt of India dat). You can then add that not everything perfect. Nothing in India is. It will take no less than another 10 years to fully recharge a destroyed nation. 4 has now been completed. Please ask your friends to be patient, considering, and learn to empathise with people who have pulled out of a terriable situation. To also note, Biharis have also welcomed large migrant populations of Eastern Bengalis and Western Punjabis after the 1947 division of India. Millions live in the state. Biharis welcomed people when they were sufering. The state helped nurture Buddhism and was the seat of central government for 1000 years in South Asia. The Suri dynasty of Sasram reorganised the Sultunate-i-Hind and introduced fiscal reforms used to this day (custom duties and the Rupee being two). Bihari symbols dot India. Perhaps you would like to remind your friends that sometimes civilisations run out of steam. This has what happened to Bihar. Its to regrouping and picking up where it left off and is on the path of sustainable economic development Last point, you will never end crime....you are asking too much of the Bihar police and government. 33,000 Americans are murdered every year, a doctor was murdered in London outside Buckingham Palace.....terriable things can happan. Bihar is no exception. thank you Bala To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:06:13 +0100 Subject: Bihar.ozg.in - Worst Media Image of Bihar - Will Bihar change and allow the Non Resident Biharis to live wherever they are with raised heads? I dared to go for an unpleasant verbal battle with few of my friends during my morning walk today, when one of them sarcastically talked about ‘the reality show on the street of Patna’. And on return I underwent the worst possible mental agony. Why does it happen only with Patna and Bihar? Why can’t Bihar change? If it can happen in Patna where the protectors of the people- the top police and administrative and political heads of Bihar live, it can very easily happen anywhere in Bihar. And this time, it was a group of young men who appeared to be educated enough. Why is the youth so shameless? How can be the police so tolerant and inactive? How could the crowd keep on watching the horrendous scene? How could several national TV news channels be showing it for so long and police could remain inert? Were the TV crews called to cover the drama challenging the authority to show what they can? I am not a Lalu-baiter. But I feel like asking Nitish Kumar as well as Police Chef Gautam, “What right they have to be present in Patna if such incident keeps on happening?” What is the need of any probe in such a case that has all the footage of video available as one in case of Varun? Why can’t all the persons seen on screen be put behind the bar as first thing? Why can’t the kings of Patna pass a single line order to the police force that this sort of incident can’t anymore be tolerated? I was very happy last week when Bihar got a great coverage of its great sons. Pranab Mukherji referred to Kautilya twice in his budget speech. This is the centenary year of the discovery of Kautilya’s Arthshasthra. It was the first time, the manuscript of the treatise on politics and governance, believed to have been written circa 4th century BC, was found and identified by Rudrapatna Shamashastry, a scholar of Sanskrit who was the librarian and later the curator of the Oriental Research Institute (ORI). Mysore. Unfortunately, Bihar and his present rulers hardly respect or even remember the person known as Chanakya, Vishnugupta, or Kautitlya and whose name may cause shivers even today among the wrongdoers of the nation. May be, it is again because of the caste of Kautilya. And then came the solar eclipse and the name of Taregna got known. Taregna that was a sleepy village till recently got known all over the world overnight and with that came the remembrance of the ancient astronomer Aryabhatta who had studied the heavens 1,500 years ago and set up his observatory here. It was NASA who could bring Taregna to the people of India and not any Indian agency. Should not the Bihar’s administration learn something from these sons of ancient Bihar? Why can’t Bihar administrators learn to be ruthless from Kautilya to make a perceivable change of the image of Bihar? Why can’t Bihar chief minister himself an engineer, go all out for the propagation of science and technology education in the state? Will Nitish’s announcement of the “knowledge university” in Taregna in the name of Aryabhatta get materialized and be a globally recognized institute of excellence? My doubt is because of a poor report about Chandragupta Institute of Management in press that was to become the IIM of Bihar, and I still don’t find the name of Kautilya Law School in the top law schools of the country. Will Bihar change and allow the Non Resident Biharis to live wherever they are with raised heads? I appeal to all the young men and women in Bihar to consider our feelings. Let them make their names known with some real achievements. I.R. 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