Mithila

The first decade of the 20th century saw he decline of the Indigo industry in Mithila which gave way to the Sugar industry. Its ironical that sugar and Gur-Khandsari industry, which had been introduced in Mithila by the Dutch, was itself first a victim of the rise of the Indigo…

For us Maithils, it is always a sense of loss. You try to pull away from being a Bihari. You don’t want to be a subset of Bengal. It has been always difficult for me to explain to my bacchas (a very Shillong Khasi kids) what Mithila means. …

If Novel Cornona 2019 is an evolution, could it not be that our human race has seen similar virus threats in the past 5000 years of human existence? If our ancestors have dealt with “vishanu” (poisonous elements) that have wiped out “Janpads” (territory?), surely, they would have written about this…