Many of us might have heard this story and many of us know some of of the
protagonist in this great story (Nirmal, Prof. Piyush Sinha and Chanchal
Kumar ).

What is more interesting is the fact that many of us keep getting similar
positive stories about Bihar being forwarded from non-bihari friends and
colleagues .. Bengali, Malayali, Tamil, Gujrati,Marathi and Punjabi and
others. We just need to manifest to our friends in a "positive and
assertive" manner that we are proud of being Bihari and are willing to give
back to Bihar. Others will also respect us.

On one hand while we have politicians and goons from some corners of India
venting their ire and frustration at Bihar and Biharis especially the poor
hardworking laborer or taxiwallas. At the same time, rest of India is hungry
for "positive stories" from Bihar. Lot of them even want to contribute to
Bihar. However one challenge many of them including some of us feel a lack
of is "receptacles" or "ground level" organizations through which they can
channelize their efforts

As sometime back Naveen was citing that every class/society needs a whipping
boy or a bad boy. Unfortunately we biharis have become that. But we are in
illustrious company of Jews, Sikhs, Gujarati, Parsis, Kashmiri Pandits and
many others. They all had to go through a bad phase. Some of them have
bounced back. Some like Kasmiri Pandits and Biharis are still going through
a bad phase. But, the good news is that our good days are coming.

Meanwhile we must continue to be paranoid about raising our Bihari voice in
whichever fora we can. In corporate world, in national budget, in media and
all over. Bihar as a name has great brand reach and name reacll
(unfortunately negative, these days) . We just need to reclaim it for
positive reasons.

Regarding the recent attack on bihari migrants, we need to form active and
vibrant "support groups" in whichever part of India and world we are. Will
share some plan in this regard. Some of us at Onebihar, especially TVS had
discussed some plans in past. Maybe time to revive that. Ideas and
volunteers will be welcome.

Cheers
Atul
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From: Adri Guha
Date: Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:27 PM
Subject: Great story
To: Atul Kumar <atultech@...>


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