The river doesn't just divide the state. It divides everything. By Shreya Shravini Published on - 11 May 2026 Growing up in Patna, I always understood Bihar as a place you navigated directionally. Not north-south in the way outsiders imagine Bihar, some flat, uniform expanse of heat and hardship, but as two very specific emotional geographies. South Bihar was the Bihar of stone temples, of Gaya and Rajgir and Nalanda's buried libraries, of Patna's noise and government buildin

How a shifting river exposes the fractured federal architecture governing Delhi? By Sagari Gupta Delhi arial photo, 2016 . Photo Credit: Sumita Roy Dutta ( Wikimedia Commons ) The Yamuna shifts course every monsoon. Three separate arms of government follow behind, resurveying the same stretch of riverbed. This is not an administrative failure. It is a structural consequence of what Delhi is. Delhi is a Union Territory with a Legislative Assembly, governed simultaneously by t

By Dr. Mona Chettri India’s Supreme Court set off a storm by describing Sikkimese-Nepalis as people of “foreign origin.” As “Indian” Old Settlers fight for new rights, Sikkim’s Bhutia-Lepcha and Nepali communities face a reckoning over belonging and identity. A Nepali band playing at the coronation of the chogyal of Sikkim in 1965. Sikkimese-Nepalis have lived in Sikkim for many generations, yet their rightful place in Sikkim and in India is still frequently questioned. Photo