Bihar Quotes

People of Bihar are the most intelligent people on earth.

Famines were frequent in colonial India and some estimates indicate that 30 to 40 million died out of starvation in Tamil Nadu, Bihar and Bengal during the later half of the 19th century.

I don't consider Mumbai-Delhi as India. The grass-rooted diversity of U.P.-Bihar is the real India.

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

I think the best thing about my short-lived political career was that I saw the interiors of Bihar and UP. That is the real India, and, being an Indian, it was really sad to see our own people living in such dismal conditions. It was a real eye-opener.

For India's sake as much as its own, Bihar needs to be strong again, less vulnerable to the many forces that would deny democracy and curtail choice. Its people are its strength, and have many skills that other states have benefited from.

I've not given the poor people of Bihar heaven, but I have given them a voice.

I don't think like Raj Thackeray... that anyone from Uttar Pradesh or Bihar or anywhere who comes to Mumbai is an outsider.

Bihar has always drawn me, ever since I was a child, brought up on the stories about my grandfather Babasaheb Soman.

I am a hardcore Bihari boy. I am born and brought up in Bihar, and for me, ethnicity is not a problem and is inbuilt in me.

India will be successful when UP, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and other parts of North East India are strengthened. India cannot develop till the eastern part of the country develops.

The recurring question that anyone from Bihar gets is whether Patna has improved. I'm not interested in answering that question.

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

More than anything else it pleases me to know I've made people back home in Bihar proud of me.

I think action films are a huge draw in places like Bihar.

I am a Tambrahm born and brought up in Jamshedpur 20 years of my life, as my father worked for the Tatas there. My mother was a chief manager in the Bank of India and the only lady manager in Bihar in those times.

You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.