NO this isn’t in retaliation to the brewing rivalry of north Indians vs. Marathi’s .Thanks to media enough light has been thrown on it. Its just a medium to voice those pent up feelings which practically every bihari has to go through when out of the boundaries of bihar.
The “Bihari” tag encompasses all crudeness with itself, a cult incapable of showing poise, glamour, having proper diction, devoid of good education. Bihari’s for no reason have been considered the black sheep of the nation .whenever you step out of bihar, the waves of this expanding paradox take real time to die down.
I and many of my friends have had this experience that the moment you reveal that you are a bihari there this complete aura of awe and amazement and with a little grin you are confronted with statements like
“you don’t look like a bihari”
“you don’t speak like a bihari”
These statements would compel you to believe that you were a hybrid variety of bihari or so to speak a bihari turned mod and your eloquence of speech would never make any Tom ,Dick but Beharry.
When questions like
“how have you managed to grow up in a place like bihar where people move around with guns and rifles?”
These fads practically dumbstruck you . And than you think for how long will have to live up with this mistaken identity.I would not undermine the fact that there have indeed been quite a many problems and issues with bihar but the stereotyped image of a bihari should be shrugged off.
Its not the region but your personal attributes which makes you stand out in the crowd…..
“kyoun bujhaieel ki naa”
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I was once asked by my fellow friend from Indore,Did in bihar kidnapping or murder take place as daily routine part of society?
I was amazed by his pre-assumptions about Bihar.It is mostly due to image projection from the media and films.Tag of Bihari is really offended many people originated from that place.There needs to be change in image about this part of india,surely lalu does not lead it.
Yes i do agree to you that "bihari" is nowadays considered as a tag to describe a crack head or maniac and similarly Bihar is considered as a synonym for corruption and injustice.
But we should ask ourselves that who is responsible for such a dissolute image of Bihar? Even now the crime rates in Bihar are higher then any other state, the political system is nothing but crap, same is the condition of law and judiciary. As soon as you step into Bihar you can feel the difference, the people are arrogant and consider breaking rules as their birth right. Most of the people (and even the educated class) are still having a typical Bihari dialect, which under no circumstances can be considered as civilized.
I know that we should not judge each and everyone with the same stick, but its human tendency to generalize things. So it’s up to us, the younger generation, to create an impression so that no one should awe in amazement when a Bihari acts with elegance and modesty.
my perception of Bihar began to form wen i met someone in my first yr from patna..hope you get the dude..but certainly wat i felt was that the biharis have an amazingly interesting language, Bihari, which sumway cums up even when they speak hindi...newys, all that i felt was having a bihari by ur side to chat wid u, especially in a classroom is gr8...may be i am not in a state to comment on the othr thngs said, for i never underwent such a series of thoughts......
I guess jokes like "Both of you three get out of the room", "I talk, He talk, why you middle-middle talk", "open the doors of the window" are to be blamed for this incorrect representation. A bigger responsibility rests with Lalooji... he gave the face of Bihar to the rest of India like nothing ever did.
@author
“you don’t look like a bihari”
“you don’t speak like a bihari”
I can't count the number of times i have heard this line. Every single senior which interacted with me during ragging period used to say me the same line.
Infact when my roomie came to know that his room-mate is a bihari guy, he got a bit tensed :)
@musingswidmustardsauce
I don't think that based on a single person's opinion one should decide how the people of that state are.
The image owes a lot to media and biased perception of outsiders who have never stepped in Bihar but construed the image entirely on the basis of what is projected in media, unfortunately media did not bother to project the 'positives' from Bihar.
BTW nice blog.. just stumbled upon from a friend's link from orkut..
@Pratik Vimal - That's exactly what I was trying to say. If you see, I have used "incorrect representation" in my comments. Even I have heard such words several times - You don't look like a Chhattisgarhi/You don't speak like a Chhattisgarhi.... or even worse --- You don't look like an Indian/You don't speak like an Indian!! :-(
C'mon ppl frm bihar...accept d fact dat ur image has not been created by Mr.Laloo Prasad Yadav,but the very dada's n bhaiyya's frm ur state or ur mohallas has made up this image in every other state wid their behaviour,hygeine,choice of words,choice of clothes n so on....dis is ur bad luck dat ur nt d first person or d only person to meet dose ppl who say"U DONT LOOK LIKE A BIHARI"
@Abhishek.....
i am very well aware of the crude behavior of Bihari's. But the lack of opportunities in the state might have created a good many dada's n bhaiyaas...but it has also created a good many civil servants and doctors, and engineers.
If you look at the result of UPSC, and iit's u will see that people from the most impoverished state have made it big.But a little light is thrown on these accolades.well will be coming very soon with a post highlighting these instances.
@ tanvi
i agree wid u yaar,i hav livd in kota,rajasthan,where max no of ppl frm bihar cum to get selectd fr iit,i dnt doubt dere intelligence....its just d behaviour...i hpe i cud mak u understand.......??!!
@abhishek...
its ok...
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