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75 vs. 613: Electricity Consumption in Bihar and India
Bihar’s per capital electricity consumption, at 75 kilowatt-hour (kWh), is the lowest in India and far below the national average of 613 units according to a recent report titled Energy Injustic… more →
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75 vs. 613: Electricity Consumption in Bihar and India
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avinashkishoreshahi wrote 3 weeks ago: Bihar’s per capital electricity consumption, at 75 kilowatt-hour (kWh), is the lowest in India … more →
From my great-great grandfather to me
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avinashkishoreshahi wrote 4 weeks ago: In 1876, AP Mcdonell, in his ‘Report on Food-grain Supply of Bengal and Behar’, recorded average ri … more →
Survival off Stamp Size Plots
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avinashkishoreshahi wrote 1 month ago: According to Agriculture Census 2000-01, two-thirds (64.34%) of the 11.6 million land holdings in Bi … more →
Muzaffarpur
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avinashkishoreshahi wrote 1 month ago: Muzaffarpur is my hometown, “the place I belong”. Muzaffarpur is the largest town in nor … more →
Mobile Bihar
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avinashkishoreshahi wrote 10 months ago: Number of cell phone subscribers in Bihar crossed one crore (ten million) mark this year. The state … more →
Back to Bihar: Power Starved Bihar-II
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avinashkishoreshahi wrote 11 months ago: Social scientists often deride engineers and MBAs for their naïve confidence in technological soluti … more →
How Much do I Earn: Is it so Rude to Ask?
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avinashkishoreshahi wrote 1 year ago: I was talking to a cousin yesterday. We were classmates in college (IGNOU) and prepared for competit … more →
100 Bimaar...
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avinashkishoreshahi wrote 1 year ago: For a population of 100 million, there are only 6 recognized medical colleges in Bihar. In north Bih … more →
My Family’s Involvement in Independence Movement
avinashkishoreshahi wrote 1 year ago: Textbooks and teaching of history in India have a Bollywood quality to them. Characters and regimes … more →
Chapra (Bihar): The Sea of Poppies, the Land of Gunpowder and the Home of Girmitiyas
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avinashkishoreshahi wrote 1 year ago: Amitava Ghosh has written a new book: The Sea of Poppies. Like his other books, this one also seems … more →
The Extent of Landlessness in Bihar (some new data added)
avinashkishoreshahi wrote 1 year ago: For last three decades food was available for cheap–the cheapest ever in known human history. … more →
Where People have no (sur)Names
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avinashkishoreshahi wrote 1 year ago: Apologies to U2 fans for the title. It refers to my home, Bihar. It is an irony that in a place like … more →
Budget 2008. Farm Loan Waiver: Bihar Misses the Boat.
avinashkishoreshahi wrote 1 year ago: It is the second time in last twenty years that Government of India has given one-time waiver for f … more →
Eminent Bihari : Sir Ganesh Dutta Singh (1868 - 1943)
avinashkishoreshahi wrote 1 year ago: Sir Ganesh Dutt Singh Here is the first biographical essay from Dr. Sachidanand Sinha’s … more →
Eminent Bihari Contemporaries of Dr. Sachidanand Sinha
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avinashkishoreshahi wrote 1 year ago: Dr. Sachidananda Sinha (1871-1950) was one of the builders of modern Bihar. Barely in his twenties, … more →
Why Fight for an IIT?
avinashkishoreshahi wrote 1 year ago: Central government has announced setting up of several new IITs in different states of India. Every … more →
In Bihar, Even Maoists have become Rangdaar
avinashkishoreshahi wrote 3 years ago: I was shocked by a news in Hindustan Times today that the maoist movement in south Bihar is actually … more →
Migration: Biharis don't have a Choice!
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avinashkishoreshahi wrote 3 years ago: Of all states, Bihar has the highest rate of migration in India. The net immigration rate from Bihar … more →
Bihari Kahawats
avinashkishoreshahi wrote 3 years ago: I intend to build a collection of idioms and adages from Bihar: a part of folk tradition that is bei … more →
