Bihar is India’s poorest state, and there is no evidence, anywhere yet, that it is participating in the current development of the Indian economy. There are no international advertisements, no signs of globalisation: not a single Nokia or Vodaphone advertisement. I discount the fact that there is a little more asphalt on the roads, more western dress, less evidence of malnutrition, more clean water, than there were thirty years ago. Thankfully this is the case, but much of the rest of India has gone much, much further towards modernisation. The foreign temples have erected a countable
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