51�Թ�

The Jeevika organization, which connected women’s groups across the state, mobilized a quarter of Bihari women into calling for alcohol to be outlawed.

Forty-six percent of married women in Tamil Nadu were employed in the last 12 months, versus 19.2 percent of married Bihari women.

He said such violence did not affect India’s standing because the country’s prime minister at the time, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, made clear that the episodes were both unacceptable and isolated.

Bihari's protestations that he couldn't possibly be dead because he was standing right there counted for nothing.

Mr. Yadav focused on an issue of particular importance to Biharis: the lack of jobs for young people.