Bihar

So on the one hand, I think the research in Kenya and Busia is part of the ground zero of the RCT movement.

together with Bihar, perhaps in India.

And what you see is that policymakers were not involved in the initial sort of investments in the research questions.

And so if policymakers are not involved at the beginning, they're less likely to sort of take on the evidence and run with it as far as policy implementation goes.

Now, I think what they have in common is an amazing level of education, more education in the south than anywhere else, a sense of the civic culture, a real health system in some of these places, And now, which is even more, I think, important, the idea that the North is exploiting the South and that they are paying for the North.

Why should they subsidize Bihar and Uttar Pradesh? So even Naidu is now thinking maybe...

My real natural partners are in the South because at the end of the day, money matters.

And if I am seen as betraying my state, my people, by being in the company of a party that is... extracting resources from the South to distribute this to rather incompetent governments in the North, that can boomerang.

One more team from Mumbai.

One more team from Purvanchal or Bihar, depending on whoever wants to invest.

One more team from the north of India.

Either Jammu, Kashmir, Himachal or Haryana.

I don't like, I don't mind this actually.

Similar to what I said.

I was saying Bihar, but Ranchi I'm fine with.

That's fine.

The weather system is highly likely to continue weakening between October 29 and 31.

However, its remnants are expected to move northwards across central and eastern India, potentially bringing further heavy rainfall to parts of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh.

While the threat from strong winds will diminish, flooding and landslides are likely to remain significant threats to life.

Densely populated, low-lying areas and communities near rivers are particularly vulnerable to flooding, with inadequate drainage infrastructure likely to exacerbate the impact of heavy rainfall.

So great to connect, you know, for that reason as well here.

But, you know, to answer your question, Laura, So I was born in a small town in Bihar in India.

My father was a gynecologist.

So we grew up literally in a doctor's colony.

And again, there's potential waiting to be leveraged in tourism, I think in several states in India.

I think one of the episodes we talked about Bihar, for example.

Tourism is really a low hanging fruit where we can push.

So it can be labor intensive manufacturing, it can be labor intensive services.

And I say this because my party's history comes exactly from this struggle.

My party's history comes from villages in Bihar, Dalit Tolas in Bihar, where entire villages were excluded from voting rights.

They were either prevented from going and voting on the day of the voting, their ID cards collected, people voted in their stead with their ID cards and for the longest time they didn't vote, they had no right to vote.

Even if they tried to step out of their villages and vote for the person that they wanted, they were butchered.

Entire villages have been butchered in Bihar and not just in Bihar, throughout the country.

What about the fact that even right now the kind of elections that go about in the country can you tell the difference from of one member of one grand party from the other can you tell the difference from these grand old parties the member of one party from the other party can you ask the people what do they stand for and have the people answer exactly what their idea is there's no you can you can hardly tell the difference between members of different political parties that's the problem that's I mean right now we are talking about saving democracy but democracy and constitution do not just have to be saved and upheld right now they have to be enriched for real democracy and constitutional morality to prevail and that is why when you talk about elections and what happens during elections the communist parties don't cater to sections of the society which I mean which have the capital and know-how of even who to vote for.

That's how elections take place, right? When we do it in Bihar, on the election day, there are huge mobilizations from political parties they book buses they book trucks people come money is distributed you come vote we'll give you money even before that different things are distributed so just to ensure that people reach there we don't do that we don't take funding from capitalists and then go amongst the workers and say that we're going to fight them and I'm with

you on that there are a lot of flaws in the electoral system first pass the post money and so on but we have seen some people overcome them you spoke about caste we've had bahujan parties parties we have had a churn so i mean i totally get the point that the system is bad