A letter to V N Singh, JD [U] president, Bihar: ‘please make tree plantation a serious matter and make history’!   To, Vashishtha Narayan Singh Ji, President, JD [U], Bihar Subject: [two reasons for taking the tree plantation drive with utmost seriousness] Dear Sir, When a TV news report mentioned that the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will kick off a tree plantation drive from his native village Kalyan Bigaha in Bihar’s Nalanda district on August 11 to promote ecology and save the environment of the thinly forested state, we felt hugely elated. And the very next moment,... 

Dharhara sees fruit trees as banks, its girls as Lakshmi: now CM gifts it – Bal Kendra, Balika residential school Patna: Dharhara, a village in Bhagalpur district has made news a several times as a sturdy bastion of women’s rights which is rooted in its local tradition. Respect for the girl child is not something that Dharhara learnt either from modern ideologies or the enlightened intellectuals of today. According to its local tradition when a girl child is born to a resident of Dharhara, the family plants a fruit tree. For the daughters of Bihar’s Dharhara village, whose pledge...