Bemisal Bihar हर कहानी में बिहार।

Places

A place you can name

We like a place you can name from across the room. We still write it down, so a child growing up away from home can point and say it.

A kulhad of tea whose surface shows the Mahabodhi temple at Bodh Gaya.
Bodh Gaya, small enough to hold.

The temple sits in the tea.

A worn railway ticket to Rajgir, torn open onto the ropeway at sunset.
Rajgir. Some journeys are printed differently.

A worn ticket, torn open onto the ropeway.

A Mithila painting of a woman and flowers, opening onto a village pond and houses with painted walls.
Mithila. When art becomes a place.

The painting and the pond are the same picture.

Chhath at sunset seen through a bamboo basket, with fruit, sugarcane, a diya, and people standing in the river.
Chhath. Some traditions lead you home.

Fruit, sugarcane, a diya, and people standing in the river.

A hand holds a looped cable beside a tablet playing Sharda Sinha, Chhathi Maiya, Kelwa Ki Paat Par. The photograph says Charging my soul.
Sharda Sinha. Kelwa Ki Paat Par.

The song on the screen is Kelwa Ki Paat Par. The photograph says "Charging my soul."

Karma Puja at night: oil lamps, a clay hollow filled with milk, bananas, and the words कर्म पूजा.
कर्म पूजा।

Lamps. Milk in a clay hollow. Bananas. The name over the fire is Karma Puja.

A greeting for Anant Chaturdashi, with lotuses, a sun on the water, and the line अनन्त चतुर्दशी की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएँ.
अनन्त चतुर्दशी।

Lotuses, and a sun on the water. The greeting is for Anant Chaturdashi.

Thekua on a steel plate beside a kulhad of tea. The line reads छोटी-सी मिठाई, बड़ी-सी परंपरा।
Thekua, and tea in a kulhad.

छोटी-सी मिठाई, बड़ी-सी परंपरा।

A sweet on a steel plate.

Patna Sahib is a name we expect our own people to know.

A place you can carry home in a kulhad. If you are in Bihar and something needs to be seen, send the location and one line.

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