Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar is not known to be a risk-taker, but those who know him say he's playing a risky game. He's keeping all his options open. He is venturing out of Bihar in small expeditionary moves. His last big engagement was in Delhi to address the Adhikar rally last week - when it is in Bihar that his party really needed him.

He is making the most extraordinary statements: recently, reacting to the Bihar Budget, he shied away from making the usual sarcastic, loaded references to his bitterest rival Lalu Prasad, instead observing contemplatively that it was "we (the Bihar socialists) who made Laluji the chief minister of Bihar". Read More

Jyothi Shankaran

    Jyothi’s last role was as Senior Editor with the business news channel Bloomberg TV India. He also worked as News Editor at business-standard.com, the online version of the business newspaper Business Standard. Jyothi is a chemical engineer from the Regional Engineering College, Srinagar.