Now Bihar turns its gaze: towards its towns!   Patna: the Gandhian quote ‘India lives in its villages’ is now obviously not applicable to the country any more with larger villages acquiring urban characteristics and the small towns turning into neglected slums. This is especially true for Bihar, a society with an inbuilt cultural bias in favour of the rustic. Verily, the towns of Bihar nowhere figured in this village-oriented thinking best represented by Laloo Yadav whose social vision if anything favoured ‘ruralization’ of even the biggest towns in Bihar. The current government’s...