Har Ghar Dastak: A Campaign Bihar Should Have Run Decades Ago
The men who surround a girl on an empty road believe they are enforcing something that is right and noble. Until that belief is dismantled, the arrests and encounters will keep coming and nothing substantial will change in the state that was once the cradle of civilization. There is an old Sanskrit word for it: kupamanduka , the frog in the well . He has never seen the sea. He does not even know that it exists. The circle of sky above him is, as far as he is concerned, the whole of the sky, and the walls around him are the limits of the world. He is not stupid. He is not even unhappy. He simply has no way of knowing what he is missing, and no reason to suspect there is anything to miss. Representational Image: @HistoryDefined on X Large parts of Bihar are living in that well. Not the whole state, and not all of its people, but enough of them, in enough villages and towns, that the consequences arrive on our screens every few weeks in the form of a recording made by someone who thought...