A result of nearly five years of keen and critical observation. Bihar: A Museum of lawlessness is a work of empirical writing on one of India’s most talked (and least cared) about states. In a brutally frank narrative, the writer tries to depict the ills affecting each and every organ of the state. Casteism, criminalisation and corruption of every imaginable and unimaginable kind, that the writer has personality witnessed and /or felt. Are dealt at length in this book. An important and badly demoralized constabulary, a caste-conscious judiciary, a completely criminalized political class, a bureaucracy bent upon breaking the norms and a citizenry blinded by caste -all make up a state, which the author describes as ‘a chariot that has suffered a complete breakdown, a rot beyond repair, an illness beyond cure’. And in the end, after telling his tale of his home state, the author warns that the spread of ‘Bihar’ to India and then to the rest of the world, is a distinct possibility.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dinesh Kumar
Dinesh Kumar b. 1972 –in Kurthaul, a village on the southern outskirts of Patna), took his primary and secondary education in government schools in Patna. After gradating in Political Science (Hon’s) from Patna, he went on to study Law at Delhi University’s prestigious Campus Law centre. It was at Delhi University that the idea of taking up a career in writing occurred to him. After his arrival from Delhi in 2000, he began practicing as an advocate in Patna High Court. It was during his first years as a lawyer that the idea of writing a book on his home state first came to his mind. Over the next few years, he tried to gather material-mostly from his personal experiences and observations –for the book. His chief interests, apart from writing, are Western Classics, Buddhist literature, culture and heritage, listening to the BBC World service Brazilian soccer, traveling and spending as much time as possible in solitude. He is at presently working on his next book.
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