Calcutta Diary

After a hundred years of being subjected to a vacuous, remorseless neocolonialism, the Bihari psyche began to assert itself in a most forceful manner in the second half of the 20th century. And two individuals in particular articulated the fusion of legacy with the ethos nurtured by contemporary notions, concepts and ideas, Pradhan Prasad and Arvind Das, and both, by a cruel coincidence, have disappeared from the landscape in the space of the past few months.