One of them, Ramdulari Sinha, did not stay the stretch. Two college girls from Bihar, still in their teens, burst onto the national scene during that phase.
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The country was in ferment students were on the march everywhere, either protesting against the trial of the Indian National Army heroes or extolling the romantic mutiny of the naval ratings at Ballard Pier in Bombay.
Should we pass over either the impact, in the sphere of culture and literature, of the eminent savant from Bihar, Rahul Sankrityayan?If on a different plane, it is equally relevant to remember the euphoric times between the end of World War II and the nation’s independence in 1947. And whatever one’s views on Rajendra Prasad, the country’s first president, the Dalit, Jagjivan Ram, was surely one of the shrewdest and ablest cabinet ministers at the national level. Or consider, among the state’s chief ministers, the case of Karpoori Thakur, a person of extraordinary integrity. Sahajanand Saraswati is now a forgotten figure but it is his legacy which the communist party came to enjoy while it was entrenching itself in the Bihar countryside in the middle decades of the last century. Jayaprakash Narayan will always stand out for his high moral principles and as an innovator of ideas his civilization too was in a class by itself. But be fair, Bihar is only part of the whole political culture has declined precipitously all over the country, period.To forget Bihar’s role in the freedom struggle will be an essay in ingratitude. The phenomenon of Lalu Prasad is naturally referred to as illustrative of what awaits the nation if Bihar’s caste fixation and rustic ways are allowed their head. In snooty circles, Bihar continues to be at the receiving end of derisive comments.