Remembering and Forgetting in Bihar

M R Sharan (sharanidli@gmail.com) is a graduate student in the PhD programme in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, focusing on issues in development economics. Take, for instance, the "smell" of government offices: a curious mix of brittle files and old furniture, tinged with uri...

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Published inEconomic and political weekly
Main Author Sharan, M R
Format Journal Article Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Mumbai Athena Information Solutions Pvt. Ltd 29.09.2018
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Canals
Highway construction
Urine
India
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Summary:M R Sharan (sharanidli@gmail.com) is a graduate student in the PhD programme in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, focusing on issues in development economics. Take, for instance, the "smell" of government offices: a curious mix of brittle files and old furniture, tinged with urine when there's a toilet around the corner. Working out of those offices into the late hours of Patna nights-grappling with issues of the state in the heart of the secretariat-one often got the sense that time had ceded to matter; the dance of the fireflies, the rippling fields, these too spoke of something that transcended time.
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ISSN:0012-9976