'Nitish Kumar is a one-man-show, isn't Gujarat also so?'

'We had become buffoons with Lalu. If you were a Bihari you were seen as a buffoon -- that has changed. Now there's a pride in being a Bihari.' Part I: 'We took a U-turn under Nitish Kumar' Seven......

'Nitish Kumar is Bihar's main trigger of change'

'In Gujarat, the system is such that even if Narendra Modi is not there, growth will continue. But in a place like Bihar it is different, it will still matter who is the CEO of the state,' social......

'Nitish Kumar is a darling of the national middle class'

'His image may have gone down a little because he is talking about poverty and underdeveloped states. That is not the way to sell yourself nationally,' Bihar's best known economist and social......

Dr Shaibal Gupta on caste, politics and Bihar

Bihar expert Dr Shaibal Gupta tells Sheela Bhatt why the upcoming assembly election is a benchmark in the state.Dr Shaibal Gupta, director of the Patna-based Asian Development Research Institute,......