National Interest Pod: Bihar, the land of revolutions that keep eating their own children

Bihar, now voting to elect its 18th state assembly, says with pride that democracy was born here. That’s why Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India is the mother of democracy. Democracy, the idea of a republic where each individual has a voice and a choice, is Bihar’s greatest contribution to India, and India’s to the world. Which raises the question: How good has democracy been for Bihar? Where is its people’s democracy dividend? — Watch this week's #NationalInterest with ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read this week's National Interest here: https://theprint.in/national-interest/bihar-voters-democracy-mahatma-gandhi-jayaprakash-narayan-karpoori-thakur/2779496/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Watch CutTheClutter episode 1753 here - https://youtu.be/mw1m-sXtSC8   National Interest Oct 7 2023: https://theprint.in/national-interest/caste-census-politics-what-bihar-thinks-today-bihar-used-to-think-day-before-yesterday/1793470/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------