The Last Trick Of The Survivor: Nitish Kumar And The Long Shadow Of Bihar’s Politics

To call Nitish Kumar a Chanakya, as his admirers do, is to mistake survival for strategy.

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‘Power is not an institution, and not a structure; it is the name we give to a complex strategic situation in a particular society.’-  Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality The first phase of the Bihar Assembly elections is over. The second and final phase will take place on November 11, and the results will be declared on November 14. As the dust settles over the early round of polling, Bihar once again stands between memory and fatigue. Bihar’s politics has never