Tag: Laloo Prasad Yadav

There are two ways in which Laloo Prasad Yadav is viewed outside Bihar depending on the social (read caste) origins, educational accomplishments and political leanings of the person concerned. People belonging to the ‘lower’ or backward classes, especially the undereducated among them, see him as their messiah, who has waged a long, courageous and unrelenting […]

Bhubaneswar: I cut my journalistic teeth reporting for a highly respected newspaper–perhaps the best and the most powerful in the country ( it still is)—in undivided Bihar. The state was a political hotbed and you never had a dull moment. In the cauldron politics of the state in those days George Fernandes, the maverick socialist […]