It is said that everything in the world is cyclic. Anything that goes up comes down and vice-versa. The problem comes when a society has massive resistance to stay down and not come up. It makes every effort and uses every excuse to stay at the rock bottom. The present condition in Bihar is a classic example of this. In most states/nations of the world, in case they were in a similar situation as the Bihar of today, there would have been a revolution long back. But Biharis are either living in denial or they show great resilience tolerance to wrongs in the society.

Let consider the first case of a society living in denial. When Arabs were invading India during 1000 AD, a great Arabian scholar Al Barouni was traveling with the Arabs armies. He was a historian and a scholar. He wanted to share knowledge with and learn from the various lands he visited. He went to the various centers of learning and met several learned men in India. He was amazed to find out that most of them either felt they were too superior to him to even argue with him or felt that Al Barouni gained ALL of his knowledge in India itself. One thing that was common amongst all of them was that they had some sense of pride in their past/history. Everybody said we used to be so and so in the PAST. This has been recoded in Al Barouni's memoirs written some 1000-year back. Now, let's come back to the present. Do you realize that the Biharis of today talk exactly like the Bihari of 1000-year back? We were great in the past and so it's okay for us to rot in the present. Unfortunately the past is never going to change since it has expired. Biharis can go on praising their past and ignoring the present for the next 1000 years too! It is mandatory to break out of this vicious loop and focus on the present and plan for the future.

Let's go the next case, a societies resistance to reform itself and tolerance to the ill wills. It looks like Biharis have gotten into the habit of trivializing the grave ethical, moral, law-and-order and civil society issues. Consider the politicians and police in Bihar. If there are 100 crimes in Bihar and say 2 crimes in Andhra Pradesh the politicians and police will say it's okay since there is crime everywhere. But wait a minute, did you consider that the number 100 much greater than number 2? The issue here is not that that there is zero crime everywhere, it's that there are way too many crimes in Bihar.

The fundamental problem though before Bihar is casteism. Biharis don't have a `community' feeling and are loyal ONLY to their caste. By community I mean the people who live in the same town/mohalla as you do. This makes them narrow-minded, mean, uncaring and anti-social. The worst thing is that they become un-empathetic. If the neighbors' house is robbed they don't care. If the trouble is not on their own head then it's non-existent. In addition, everybody gets into the mode of trying to exploit everybody else. Moreover, there is no sense of justice in the peoples mind and soul. Nobody feels hurt to see a weak person being exploited or bullied. For the Biharis the superficial caste 'superiority' and false pride in past glory are the core values to live and die for. Alas! the core values could have been character, truth, morals and ethics.