Surya Namaskar: either or!! Patna: It would appear that the criteria for Indianness and plain Indian citizenship are becoming more and more stringent these days. Bihar BJP may be credited with adding a fresh clause to the pre-requisites for being Indian – you must do Surya Namaskar. The reasons oscillate between health and Indianness quite freely of course. While everyone wants better health, it is the imposition of a specific healthy practice that hurts the minorities and others, who may want to forgo the draconian health requirements. And anyway, why not make ‘sheershsan’... 

BJP leaders of Bihar fail quiz on Vajpayee’s life: ‘Atal is great but we know nothing about him’!   Patna: even as the nation, including the BJP and the Congress party wished the grand old man of Indian politics Atal Bihari Vajpayee a happy birthday day before, the occasion revealed the ignorance of politicians, including the BJP politicians on the basic facts of Vajpayee’s life. According to a news report, a quiz organised by the BJP in Patna on the occasion of the former PM’s 88th birthday on Sunday turned out to be an embarrassment for all the participants – the... 

Exactly what happened in the Araria firing…:  ANHAD Report The following report is based on interviews with victims, their families, group meetings with villagers, visit to the site of firing and the Forbesganj Industrial Area by the members Anhad, a Delhi based NGO that seeks to intervene in defence of democracy, secularism and justice. Bihardays quotes them with the understanding that these facts have been gleaned from the field and often summarize what the local residents may have told the visiting team. Bihardays however may not endorse the entire list of demands laid out at the...