From stupas, Buddhist art progresses to a point where the human form is used
to convey ideas that transcend mortal existence. And acknowledging the fact Bhagalpur was also a seat of knowledge once upon a time, angvani takes you to a journey several such sites in the country in two parts with courtesy to the FRONTLINE.
Taking note of incidents like Aurangzeb in Bhagalpur, the state government has decided to create a new IG's post for the Bihar State Human Rights
Commission besides opening food parks in the city in its second phase. The State government has now separate district health cadre and state health cadre,
particularly for the purpose of upgrading healthcare in rural areas and also for
giving a fillip to specialized healthcare at the state level.
Bhagalpur’s muslims hate farm fresh cauliflowers. Green cabbage too. Hindus had raided neighbourhoods across the district in late October 1989, slaughtering Muslims by the scores. Months later, bodies began turning up three feet under the soil in one village — the killers had buried the dead and camouflaged them with cauliflower and cabbage saplings.
It is not clear how many people will remember Jaora
Paharia on the Independence Day. The name is not very familiar to the
people although historians are getting increasingly intrigued by his shadowy
figure. What is undisputed at the moment though is the empathy that Paharias
feel today for the late hero, who, they claim, was none else but Tilka Manjhi,
deified as a martyr and freedom fighter in history.
Days are not far when your Silk City will have pride of being Cyber City simultaneously with a private sector IT company deciding to open four IT malls in four major cities of the state including Bhagalpur after Patna. The e-mall is to come up in the Silk City in the next three months if words of the Astric computers officials are to be believed.
