Are you from Bihar? Oh! You are Bihari. Then you must be expert in corruption, have all the bad habits like smoking, drinking etc. You may have police record. So this is India’s opinion about Bihar. Actually this word ‘Bihar’ has become synonym of poverty, corruption, backwardness, violence and failed governance. Both print and Media coverage are responsible for this general opinion about Bihar. So what is the reality? I agree Bihar are poor but Biharis are not. There is no proper infrastructure, low literacy rates and big population but still Biharis try their level best to survive there. Today I am talking about Bihar due to recent comment by Goa minister. He told while participating in the discussion during the ongoing Goa Legislative Assembly session, there will be more beggars in Goa, if trains linking it to Patna are introduced. This remark has hurt the sentiments of the people of Bihar. So the minister thinks that Bihar is a state where all people are beggars. Mr. Minister, Biharis are not not beggars, they have earned enough respect and status and done Bihar proud through sheer merit and hard work.
Let me remind you about the greatness of Bihar ::
- It gave the world its first Republic.
- Here Buddha gave his first thought.
- It had the world’s best ancient university.
- Chanakya wrote here the first book on Economics.
- Mahavir founded Jainism here.
- Valmiki wrote Ramayan, the greatest Epic of World.
- Rishi Shushrut, the father of surgery, lived on the soil of Bihar.
- Vatsayana wrote Kamasutra, the complete art of sex and love.
- Ashoka was the greatest ruler of India.
- Aryabhatt, the great ancient mathematician was also from Bihar.
- Ashoka Chakra comes from Bihar which adorns India’s national flag.
- It gave India its first president.
To know more watch this video about Bihar.
Some more facts about Bihar which I got in my mail.
- Bihar has more number of Literate than Kerala and Tamil Nadu combined.
- Bihar has more number of Graduates than Andhra Pradesh and Kerala combined.
- More Biharis are doctors than Punjab and Gujarat combined.
- Bihar has produced more number of IAS officer than Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra and Gujarat combined.
- More Biharis are bank probationary office than any other state.
- More Biharis are in IIT compare to Maharashtra and Gujarat.
- Murder rate in Bihar is half of murder rate in Mumbai.
- Rape is Bihar is 1/10th of Delhi.
- Number of people killed in Bihar in communal violence is 1/75 th of Gujarat.
- Naxalites in Bihar have killed less people than in Andhra Pradesh.
- Bihar produces more wheat than Punjab.
- Bihar is only large state where no farmer committed suicide.
- More Bihari Girls complete Graduation than Kerala.
These are some Bihari Blogs on internet.
- Cool Bihari
- One Bihar
- I love Bihar
- Mithila Cuisine
- Bihari Buddhi
- Bihar Today
- Bhojpuria
- Non Resident Bihari
- Patna Bihar
- Bihar.ws
- Bihari World
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==> If you liked this post, then why not buy me a beer so I can cool off? …dude this is priceless!!! this place sounds like Detroit in the seventies. I’d buy ya’ some brews but my wife would get out her ghurka knife and slit my throat. LOL
I personally don’t have anything against bohar or bihari in general. No culture can be said bad its just the way thing are performed there…
India get similar nametag on map of worlld… yes inspite of all great thing we boast about…So where do these tags come from.. Basiclly its the way outside world perceives you….For this to changes (which not necessorily mean always good) they has to be social shift..
To comment on your points, i don’t agree with greatness list and all that kinda stuff.. its all rubbish…
Its medevil list harldly any current achiever (Lalu would have been one had you included in it). IN those days probably people never talked about Bihar the way they talk about it now.
Second the statastical data are ambigious.. for few reasons…
1) correctness is not guranteed.
2) it has to be looked in terms of population density and total number of people you doing it with..so kerla comparison is wrong and so is mumbai..more bloddshed wold happen in city like and mumbai and who know how many go unnoticed and un reported in bihar…
3) these are not even factor for which bihar is underrated… Let say they have max IAS(shows importance of being in power) how many MBAs they got then.. so if they are excelling somewhere they are loosing it somewhere… AP may be great other areas.
Perceptiption is only issue and people do that without knowing which i guess which is wrong.
No beggars from Bihar… but definetely good bloggers!
I am just curious about where you got your data. Can you prove all those facts about Bihar are correct. Other than the hispotical facts, I doubt anything about literacy, education, profession or even violence is correct about bihar especially if you are comparing your data to states like Kerala, Tamilnadu and Andhra. When you write, either you need to mention that your oprion or site a source of tour information rather than just spitting out incorrect information.
good article. are you part of http://www.jaibihar.com?
rgds
No, but I am regular visitor of JaiBihar.com, It is one of the best websites on Bihar.