Bihar is closely following the pattern set up by West Bengal; jail-killings have started here too. But, thank God, the iron has not yet entered the soul of Biharis.
There was much hue and cry — termed by a local newspaper as “wide public resentment” over the firing in Patna Jail on July 7 and in Hazaribagh Jail on July 25 in which 2 and 17 prisoners were killed respectively.
अहा! जिंदगी के लिए पटना में लालू प्रसाद यादव के साथ नरेन्द्र कुमार सिंह
बिहार के गांवों में ‘छोटी‘ जाति के गरीब-गुरबों में मनोरंजन के दो सबसे लोकप्रिय साधन हैं. एक है बिदेसिया जो गीत-संगीत और नाच-गाने से भरपूर नौटंकी का एक फार्म है. दूसरा है लौंडा नाच, जिसमें बाईजी की जगह लड़कियों की वेष-भूषा में – कमसिन लड़के पेट्रोमेक्स की रोशनी में नाचते हैं।
पर वह बिदेसिया हो या लौंडा नाच, एक चरित्र उसमें अनिवार्यतः रहता है – लबरा, विकटा या नकटा।
नकटे की भले ही नाक कटी हो, चेहरा आड़ा-टेढ़ा हो, पर बड़ों-बड़ों पर अपना मसखरापन आजमाने से वह बाज नहीं आता।
जब विकटा स्वागत शैली में क्रूर, कंजूस जमींदार पर अपने व्यंग्यबाण छोड़ता है तो उसकी बोली न केवल लोगों को गुदगुदाती है बल्कि कही अंदर गहराई तक छू भी जाती है।
पारदर्शी धूर्तता से भरपूर नकटा बुरी ताकतों से लड़ता है और हीरो की अनुपस्थिति में बीच-बीच में नाचकर भी लोगों का मनोरंजन करता है।
DEATH in the form of dreadful floods, which is bound to be followed by large-scale famine, is knocking at the doorsteps of Bihar populace.
In its SOS to New Delhi, the Bihar Government has revealed that about 10 million people have been affected by severe floods in 5989 villages in 13 out of 17 districts of the State in an area of 12,331 square miles.
This has broken the backbone of the much-expected Green Revolution.
A little over 90 percent of bhadai crop have been lost in the affected areas, districts of Patna, Gaya, Shahabad, Santhal Parganas, and Palamu in South Bihar and Bhagalpur, Munger, Purnea, Saharsa, Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Saran and Champaran in North Bihar.
An ideological struggle is on in Bihar. Mr. S. N. Singh, the State Secretary of the CPI (ML), has declared a virtual war against party theoretician, Mr. Charu Mazumdar. The State Secretary has “expelled” many of the followers of Mr. Mazumdar, while he himself has been disowned by the Mazumdar camp.
The war is on. But it is being fought on a purely ideological level.
Ideological differences are not new for the Marxist-Leninist — to be more precise, Maoist — ranks in Bihar. From the very beginning, say from the days of the “Naxalbari Sahayata Samiti’ and the ‘Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries’, there have been many groups, popularly known as ‘Naxalites’, claiming faith in the Maoist dictum of armed revolution. Continue reading “Fifty shades of Red : Ideological struggle among Naxalite groups in Bihar”
