Let me say something that will make some people uncomfortable.
Bihar’s problem isn’t infrastructure. It isn’t geography. It isn’t even decades of political neglect — though all of that is real, and all of that has hurt.
The real enemy is quieter. More insidious. It lives not in policy documents or budget allocations but in the minds of people who should know better — people in boardrooms in Mumbai, in think tanks in Delhi, in diaspora circles in New Jersey and London — who have collectively decided, without ever saying it aloud, that Bihar’s financial future will be shaped by someone else, somewhere else, someday.
That assumption is the enemy. And it’s time we named it.
