Bihar

I propose an experiment: to introduce 'Bihar' on any search engine of international news. Any day, any month of the year.

Bihar is the negative of that splendid picture of India that comes up in the economy magazines and catalogs of travel. Bihar is one of the poorest regions of Asia, like India in India.

I just look at 'Google News India' (there are seven in the evening in New Delhi), 'Bihar'. This is what I found. I am still the order of the list:

The regional government punishes schools that spread to 75 titles in exchange for money.

One dead

(other sources speak of two) and five injured when police opened fire on a group of demonstrators who were preparing to loot a police station.

The Government of Sri Lanka advised to visit Bihar citizens who think, to be vaccinated against polio.

The National Association of India cricket will not recognize the Bihar until it resolves its multiple corruption scandals.

Many of the camps of construction workers from Bihar are hotbeds of infection of malaria.

-A regional legislator who was sentenced to life imprisonment for 23 crimes, including murder, kidnapping, extortion and looting, plans to write a book in prison about his life. She would also like to see embodied in a movie and just his doctorate with a thesis on the 'non-violence'.

While India celebrates the unstoppable growth of its economy even in times of crisis, the eighty million Biharis as they see year after year things will go worse.

Except

Patna, the capital, there are no cities in Bihar. Ninety percent of the population is rural, which in India is almost synonymous with underdevelopment. Not even ten percent of the houses have electricity. A local joke says that, if they could, all Biharis anywhere away from your people ... but there is only one car for every hundred people, and not the first to fly back to pick up the others for nothing in the world.

Bihar produces little more than 0.5% of GDP Indian. However, it is home to 7% of the population. Life expectancy is the lowest in the country, and is below that of Cambodia, Myanmar or Bangladesh.

The official website of the regional tourism office describes the Biharis as people "of rustic simplicity and humility innate, but very proud of themselves."

What to do if one is born in a place like this? As he says in his book 'In spite of the gods' journalist Edward Luce, "with two televisions for every hundred inhabitants, the main source of entertainment in Bihar are the politicians and leaders."

Rural India lives in a century than in urban areas. (Photo: GM)

It could make a lot of jokes about the bad luck of the Biharis in their politicians. But would require a very black humor as the last of you: many of them have outstanding accounts with justice and aspire to public office to enable them to escape from jail or as posts, deepening his criminal career.

Nature has also been used to viciously against this region irrigated by the river Ganges, the floods in a few months ago struck and a half million people, destroyed 200,000 houses and left dozens dead.

The truth is that any time spent was better for Bihar. The Buddhist equivalent to the Holy Land Christian is in Bodhgaya, near Patna can find a descendant of that tree under which Buddha was enlightened and the University of Nalanda was 2,500 years ago, one of the most important world.

Find news on the internet in Bihar supposed to open a window from the twenty-first century to look to a land steeped in the past darker.

Again I look at Bihar:

Canceled

a government plan to serve rat cooked in restaurants tour.

Gave a child to train for writing a love letter to a girl from another caste.

appears dead in bizarre circumstances a journalist who was investigating drug trafficking in Bihar.