In Ara, minister showcases work but faces social realities
(WorldNews India)

Surrounded by the rivers Ganga and Sone, Ara is a land of struggle and many a battle. In 1857, it was here - in Bhojpur district of modern day Bihar - that Veer Kunwar Singh, the ruler of Jagdishpur, liberated vast stretches from Ara to Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh from the British for almost one year. In 1967, Jagdish Mahto alias Jagdish Master, a schoolteacher, led an armed struggle here against oppressive landlords that soon engulfed several districts in Bihar as Naxalism. Later, it was here that the Ranvir Sena, an upper caste militia formed to...