A scene in chak de India shows the Indian coach bashing the players for not introducing themselves as Indian player .This scene struck an instant chord with the audience and was adulated across India without any fail. And then we lived up to our reputation of being a hypocritic country by doing what is happening in Maharashtra and elsewhere. It is a matter of public discourse for quite some time because of a regional rhetoric of a leader. A demagogic diktat given by him has spelled doom and ordeal for various people shattering the social fabric out there. But it is not a sporadic instance; of late it has become a fashion to bash north Indians in general and Biharis in particular for every wrong thing.
So what it means to be a Bihari, well ask me and I’ll tell you it’s nothing special. We like everybody else have been an integral part of this country who have been subjected to all kind of oppressive and abusive system yet we keep a smile on our face .I have spend my life across 4 different states and met a lot of people from length and breadth of this country and found them just like “us”. I have seen the quintessential Biharis and I can assure you they are among the very best in various discipline. I don’t want to sound clichéd by writing our heroics in IAS, IIT and other academic sphere. It is much above that. It’s about the moral fibre of the people in this country in this particular case. I firmly believe a lot of wrong notion is prevalent in the mental landscape of my fellow brethren who don’t belong to the “political boundary” of Bihar. We should not involve ourselves in the mud-slinging game; instead look at the problem without any predilection towards a particular community and keep our integrity intact.
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