Call it horse power if you will. Forget about Pajeros or even the humbler Bolero vehicles, village heads in rural Bihar are doling out hundreds of...

Shahina Bano, Nurjahan Khatoon, Rukhsana and Tarannum Khatoon have one thing in common: they have been busy making the special mitti ka chulha or...

Bihar has begun a move to revive 391 Buniyadi Vidyalayas (also known as basic schools) that were built in accordance with Mahatma Gandhi’s concept of...

Suresh Narayan is no ordinary man. In his early 60s, this resident of Gaya has quietly gone about performing the ‘pindadan’ ritual for people he has...