Nalin Verma

is journalist, author and teacher. He is also Patron of eNewsroom India. The senior journalist loves writing on the rural India's folklore and on Indian politics. He has co-authered Gopalganj to Raisina Road with Lalu Prasad Yadav and The Greatest Folk Tales of Bihar

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Covid Curtails Congregations but Takes us Down Memory Lane

The Covid-19 caused lockdown and norms of physical distancing have robbed the people of the opportunities to congregate and celebrate their festivals. Many religious and cultural events have passed unnoticed in the last over five...

Saga of Justice: Then and Now

The story of a judge shaped my initial consciousness about our judicial system. The Patna High Court had a judge belonging to Gangpalia in 1960s or early 1970’s. Gangpalia was a kilometre away from Daraili Mathia—my...

Folklore and Mandir-Masjid politics

Akbar and his favourite courtier, Birbal were once strolling in a farm field. Akbar had an upset tummy which, he thought, was caused by the vegetable of eggplant that the Mughal emperor had eaten the...

Nitish loses will to act in crisis situation

“Why has Chief Minister Nitish Kumar become inactive when he is supposed to be super active with the Covid-19 playing havoc in Bihar?” This is the paramount question occupying the mind of those who have watched...

Bihar DGP: A Mystic in Uniform

It was a hot summer evening in 1983. The sun had faded out but there was no relief. The table fans creaked and blew hot air; our rooms at the PG Hostel Ranighat had turned...

NRC And ‘This Earth of Mankind’

A poor Muslim barber, Subedar Mia, from the non-descript Daraili Mathia village in Bihar’s Saran district worked for a living on the streets of Dhaka ahead of the partition of India in 1947. Subedar unknowingly...

Open Letter to My Muslim Friends– “Do not build mosque on the 5 acres land”

My dear Muslim friends, Honour the Supreme Court’s verdict on Ayodhya. Let the Ram temple come up at the place where the Babri mosque stood till 1992 but don’t accept the five acres of land to...

Rana Preet Gill: A Compulsive Writer and Obsessive Reader

The tale of a rabies infected she dog turned this veterinarian into a writer. Surprised! Read on: Rana Preet Gill, a doctor at Government Veterinary Hospital, Hoshiyarpur, Punjab, had hardly thought of becoming a writer till she...

End of Dialogue and Atmosphere of Disconnection in the rural life of ‘New India’

Bambhola came to me, an android phone in hands, to say that the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and his Pakistan counterpart, Imran Khan stayed in a room for nine hours at Brishkek. Quoting a news...

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Folklore and Mandir-Masjid politics

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Kolkata Slum Kids Shine As New Kickboxing National Champions Of India

Kolkata: Mohammad Rahul Haldar, a 15-year-old boy from Kolkata, won a gold medal in the 42-kilogram weight category at the Kickboxing National Championship in...

The Unbelievable Nail Houses In China

Kolkata: Do you know about the ‘Nail Houses’ of China or ever heard about a nail house? What it is? Well, nail houses or dingzihu,...

When Irrfan Khan was approached by AAP to fight 2014 Lok Sabha election

As far as Indian politics is concerned, 2014 remained a significant year. It was a time when Congress' prospects were not looking bright and...

क्या सरकार चली कि भारतीय खाद्य निगम पर 3 लाख करोड़ का बोझ प़ड़ गया? चरमराती जा रही है अर्थव्यवस्था

भारतीय खाद्य निगम के चरमराने की ख़बरें आने लगी हैं। इसी के ज़रिए भारत सरकार किसानों से अनाज ख़रीदती है। सरकार उसके बदले में...