Here we go “what makes Bihar different from other states in India?”
Posted by: Thinking Boxx Team
May-28th 12:34 AM IST
Please! Read till the end. Answer is going to be a little bit long it is obvious but not boring.
- The primary languages of Bihar are Maithili, Magahi(Magadhi), Bhojpuri and Angika. Apart from them, other languages are also spoken such as Bajjika, Fiji Hindi, Sarnami Hindustani, Surajpuri and Kudmali. Although official language of Bihar state is Hindi.
- The tone of Bihari people are special like ‘kaisen ho bhaiya?’
T r a n s l a t i o n - ‘How are you bro?’
These words are awesome. Any people can easily guess that the man is from Bihar. We usually use “hum”(we) instead of “main” (I) like, “hum thik bani.”
T r a n s l a t i o n - I'm fine.
This happened with me also.( Lol) One of my batch mate is from haryana and he tease me saying words like ‘kaisen ho?’ But ultimately we are best friends.
I feel so good to write about rich culture and tradition 🙏
2 BIHARI CULTURE AND TRADITION
People in Bihar celebrate a whole range of festivals. These festivals are inherently linked with the lifestyle and culture of people of Bihar, specially Chhath Puja.
Chhath festival is dedicated to Sun God and begins on the fourth day of the month of Kartik Shukhla Paksha (second fortnight of Kartik). This corresponds to late October to mid November depending on the year. It is one of the holiest festivals for Biharis and extends to four days. The festival is celebrated with great pomp and devotion among Bihari people and it does not matter where do they live on the occasion but they would celebrate it.
We celebrate other festivals too with same enthusiasm. We are holy people too but not superstitious.
Other than these, Bihar has a very old tradition of beautiful folk songs sung during important family occasions such as marriage, birth ceremonies. They are sung mainly in-group settings without the help of too many musical instruments though dholak and occasionally tabla and harmonium are used. Many of Hindi film songs have been heavily inspired from these Bhojpuri folk songs.
Bihar has a rich heritage of handicrafts like hand-painted wall hangings, wooden stools, miniatures in paper and leaves, stone pottery, bamboo, leather goods and appliqué work. Madhubani Paintings are world famous. These works of art often adorn city homes and are also exported. A strict monopoly of women of Mithila, Madhubani artists work with natural colors on paper and cloth, making works that narrate mythological and religious events.
BIHAR IS KNOWN AS IAS(UPSC) FACTORY.
For some time now, Bihar has been known for putting up an impressive show when it comes giving the national Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, and is second only to Uttar Pradesh.
Well, that has changed .
Uttar Pradesh comes to rank number 1 in giving the country the most bureaucrats of this cadre, Bihar has been quietly replaced by a rather unlikely state.
Biharis are also doing well in other competitive exams like IIT-JEE, NEET,AIIMS,etc.
Some examples are below
NEET 2018 AIR 1
AIIMS 2018 RESULT
AIIMS AIR 26
Air 19
CAUTION - I accept that our education system is very poor. Yes you read, that is right. Our government failed to surve us with plenty of knowledge, skills,etc. Inspite of many hurdles we try to achieve success. We are crazy for success.
There is many problems. I can't explain over here.
4 FOOD
Litti-chhokha one of the most delicious food in my opinion. (By the way I love Litti-chhokha. Here, in Delhi I eat at uttam nagar east metro station). It is world famous dish.
Litti-chhokha is loved by Mr AMITABH BACHCHAN and AAMIR Khan also.
Is it tasty? Mr Perfectionist.
Nothing more to say just eat and enjoy, man.
Some dishes for which Bihar is famous for include Bihari Kebab, Bihari Boti, Bihari Chicken Masala, Sattu Paratha, which are parathas stuffed with fried chickpea flour, chokha (spicy mashed potatoes), fish curryand', Postaa-dana kaa halwaa.
SAMOSA
- Samosa Chaat, it is basically samosa sweet chatni, curd, Namkeen mixtures with chura, onion and other garnishing ingredients.
What about samosa?
Is it yummy?
Other foods are illustrated with images
Thekua my favourite lunch(in school days) . Ah! I'm missing it.
5 LEGENDARY ICON
HC VERMA SIR
NAAM TO SUNA HI HOGA
T r a n s l a t i o n - HEARD?
No need to introduction.
Vashishtha Narayan Singh is an Indian mathematician from Basantpur, Bhojpur District, Bihar, India.
After receiving his Ph.D.(on Cycle Vector Space Theory), he worked at NASA and then returned to India in 1971 to teach at IIT Kanpur and then after eight months, he joined TIFR, Bombay. In 1973, he was appointed as a permanent faculty in I.S.I Kolkata.In 2014, he was appointed as guest faculty in Bhupendra Narayan Mandal University (BNMU) in Madhepura as a visiting professor.
He challenged EINSTEIN also.
PANKAJ TRIPATHI
Pankaj Tripathi is an Indian actor who appears predominantly in Hindi films. Famous for his natural acting, he debuted in 2004 with a minor role in Run and has since worked in more than 40 films and 60 television shows. Tripathi's breakthrough came in 2012 for his supporting role in the Gangs of Wasseypur film series
MANOJ BAJPAYEE
Manoj Bajpayee, also credited as Manoj Bajpai, is an Indian film actor who predominantly works in Hindi cinema and has also done Telugu and Tamil language films. He is the recipient of two National Film Awards and four Filmfare Awards.
Many more but I can't write because of time and another reason is answer will be too long.
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I know this may sound strange. But somehow talking about Bihar is like talking about the whole nation. Today Bihar is the weakest link in the Indian Union, and since everyone of us are judged by our weakest link, so speaking ills of our nation it’ll automatically speak about Bihar. So let's dive into it.
- The Glorious Past : Bihar was for the past 3000 years the most prosperous, industrious and cultured province of India. Pataliputra modern day Patna at times was the equivalent to modern day New York if not more. It declined in prestige after the collapse of the Buddhist Bengali Pala empire. After that it just went in a crashing decline. Delhi replaced Pataliputra as the capital, it was sacked numerous times by Afghans and Turks. The last glorious period Patna reached was when Sher Shah Suri an Afghan commander from Bihar ousted Humayun. But he chose Delhi as his capital, and not Patna. Funny enough the economic decline in India coincides with the time when the capital of India shifted off to Delhi from Pataliputra. Today Delhi is still the capital.
- The Superiority Complex : Due to the fact that Pataliputra and Bihar was the beating heart of the country. You can sense a superiority complex amidst Biharis. Often this clouds the proper judgement of calling a wrong, wrong. Often it is that Biharis will argue that their mistake is nothing compared to what they suffer or go through. Though it may be true, that Biharis go through a lot sometimes accepting there's a problem can go a long way to improve one's situation.
- A Broken Spine Which Never Healed : What one sees as Bihar today is actually an amalgamation of three ethno-linguistic regions, Magadh, Mithila and Bhojpur. The reason why the region came to be known as Bihar is also a tragedy. In 1200, Muhammad bin Ikhtiyar al-Din bin Bakhtiyar Khilji of the Turkic Halaç tribe invaded the region. Misguided by thinking it a fortress and blinded by hatred of the infidel, he laid waste to the University of Nalanda. When later he came to realise that the university was what it is, a vihara, the region came to be known as Bihar. Today Bakhtiyarpur still exists in the vicinity of the ruins of Nalanda. For the past 800 years Bihar was ravaged, exploited by warlords, businessmen. Unlike in most other states where revolution and rennaissance blossomed against the opressors, like the Marathas in Deccan, the Sikhs in Punjab or the Bengalis under British Raj. Bihar never witnessed such. Yes the Champaran revolt was the debut of MK Gandhi, but it failed to have an impact on the society as whole. Until recently Bihar was plagued with politicians and strongmen who carried out the policy of the oppressors by exploiting the innocent masses. No one dared to protest. Those valiant who did ended up martyred like Satya Prakash Dubey. It's as if the society never gained indipendence, never got a chance to stand tall against evil.
- Lack of Unity : Biharis only become Biharis once they leave Bihar for other states. As long as they stay in their state they are Thakur, Rajput, Brahmin, Dalit or Yadav. Caste system which is absent in it's neighbouring West Bengal finds so deep root in Bihar is a real puzzle. More than that is around 60% of Bengalis actually descend from either UP or Bihar. The Brahmins in Bengal are Upadhyays descending from UP. Chaitanya Dev, the founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, his real name was Biswambhar Mishra, Mishra is an UP surname. More than that Yadav surname becomes Ghosh in Bengal. You can see a Mukherjee marrying into a Ghosh, a Ghosh marrying into a Bannerjee, but imagine seeing a Yadav marrying into a Mishra family. Often times a Bihari can ask your name. Followed by a question ‘what's your caste?’ For me it's a shocking. It's the 21st century how can you ask such questions, and it's these questions that restrict the unity.
- Brain and Labour Drain : Give any government exam and you can be sure the result will always have a Bihari near the top. Why? Bihar has been ravaged by corrupt rulers for centuries. Men who had the sole intent of stealing every single pice from the hardworking taxpayer. Industries have not grown. Labour pay is not well. People have been duped again and again, so government job is the only way out for the educated. Biharis will learn a regional language to give exam for that state’s civil service exam, that much desperation is amongst them. The hardwork they can do for a decent respectable living is beyond the charts. For the impoverished working for abysmal pay with no benefits is the only way out. Labours flock cities all across the country for a better living. Businesses hire these ultra-cheap labour, work them under inhumane conditions. But for them it's still better than going back to their state. They have no other choice. But this often picks in the ire of the people of that state who lost their job because a Bihari replaced him/her.
- Bad Habits : Due to the fact that Bihar has been subjected to such humiliation and deceit. The society has become rigid, patriarchal and orthodox. Women are the biggest losers in this. The social status of women crashed for the past 8 centuries. Veiling is common. Married women end up as housewives with 3–4 kids per couple. So for a Bihari man traveling to Kolkata, Mumbai or Delhi seeing a woman wearing modern attire working is alien. It often ends up in the woman getting eve teased. Now it's all done as a casual banter. But for the women directed at it's offensive to say the least. Due to the lack of development of other social activities, gossiping becomes the only form of entertainment. And due to this snooping and peeping into neighbours and bad habits such as these arise.
- Blind Optimism in Politicians : Everytime a politician comes to the podium promises something people flock to vote him. The politicians wins the election thanks the people and leaves with the money. Yet it is the people who made him what he is are left with nothing. Still you will find people from UP and Bihar desperately backing their politicians. Why? They haven't done nothing for the past 8 decades why would they now. This or that party. It's all the same. They are here to take your votes, take your money, fool you and leave. Why be fooled over and over again. Whatever we have to do we have to do on our own, no one is gonna help us. That's the way it has been, that's the way it will be.
Conclusion : If you look closely, then many of the points are shared by India in comparision with the world. Like Bihar, India was once rich. Like Bihar, Indians hace a superiority complex, which clouds tgeir judgement to see the faults in her culture. Like Bihar, India inspite of being indipendence still asks for approval from the West, the very people who colonised and humiliated her. Like Bihar, India is divided into religions, ethnicities and caste. Like Bihar, Indians flock to the West for better jobs and oppurtunities, where they are racially targetted and humiliated, but still they prefer to stay there than here. Like Bihar, Indians have bad habits that they can't seem to get rid off, like celebrating the victory of a cricket match right in the middle of London. And finally, like Bihar, Indians can't seem to give up on their blind faith in politicians, half of the country believes the black money is on it's way from Switzerland, while the other half believes the opposition would be better than the present.
Bihar is destined for greatness. It was once great it'll be great again. But Biharis must understand the problems work on it and do so tirelessly. If a politician is doing good, it's good but it's not enough. For Biharis settled in other states go back to your homeland once you made enough money, open businesses employ people. Labour is cheap so production could be made high, and use your contacts in your work-state to sell your produce. It's time one should realise that it's his/her duty towards her people. And for me I hope this state can become what it once was a globally recognised culture. Sorry if emotions are offended.
Uttar Pradesh
The per capita crime rate of UP is 7.4. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, this ratio means that Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of crimes, and thus, the state is unsafe to travel alone.21-Feb-2023
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