Terror on Patna roads: defending the right to oppress?   By Ratnakar Tripathy It’s strange how societies and perceptions change when they do. How societies resist change, is of course equally puzzling and annoying. The naked display of terror on Patna roads and elsewhere in the aftermath of Barmeshwar Mukhiya’s murder has left the Patna citizens in a state of shock. And yet it remains true that such displays were not uncommon just eight years ago. It just goes to show how in the past several years, Bihar has enjoyed an exceptionally orderly phase and that it has made us all very...