स्वाद01
Food & Land
Makhana country
Behind a familiar white snack is a demanding aquatic crop, a network of skilled workers and a region shaping a global market.
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Stories from the heart of India
A land worth
knowing.
Beyond the headlines is a Bihar of boundless talent, ancient wisdom, quiet beauty and people who keep moving the world forward.
The Ganga at dawn · An artist’s impression
SCROLL↓Explore Bihar
Seven ways
to begin.
Follow what draws you in—a meal, a journey, a voice, a life or a story—and discover the connections between them.
Festival in focus
Where Bihar
greets the sun.
Chhath moves through fasting, preparation, water, family labour and carefully arranged offerings—culminating in prayers to the setting and rising sun.
01Nahay Khay
02Kharna
03Sandhya Arghya
04Usha Arghya
Fresh from Bihar
Stories to carry
with you.
कला02
Arts, Languages & Living Culture
Beyond the border
Mithila painting is recognised by its visual language. Its future also depends on recognising the individual artists speaking through it.
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Places & Journeys
Rajgir, slowly
A two-day approach to a valley where sacred paths, hot water, forest and new attractions share the same landscape.
↗Plan your Bihar
Find a place.
Take the road.
Discover the places first, then choose a practical day trip or slow weekend built around them.
01Bodh GayaWhere silence changed the world↗02RajgirHills layered with history↗03Valmiki Tiger ReserveBihar’s wild green edge↗04PatnaA river city, always becoming↗
01 · FROM Patna or Varanasi
The Kaimur waterfall trail
A nature-led weekend shaped by plateau country, seasonal water and careful local planning.
02 · FROM PatnaRajgir and Nalanda
A weekend across hills, sacred routes and one of Bihar’s defining landscapes of learning.
03 · FROM Patna or VaranasiSasaram and the Rohtas landscape
Architecture, political history and an introduction to southwest Bihar’s dramatic terrain.
04 · FROM Patna or MuzaffarpurA day in Vaishali
Archaeology, pilgrimage and the quiet texture of the north Bihar countryside.
Taste Bihar
A table shaped by
place and season.
Begin with familiar favourites, then explore snacks with chai, complete combinations, sweets and the prasads prepared for Bihar’s festivals and pujas.
Enter the food atlas →लिट्टी चोखा01 · Main dishes
Litti Chokha
Roasted wheat dough filled with seasoned sattu, served with smoky mashed vegetables and, often, ghee.
Explore ↗अहूना मटन02 · Main dishesChamparan Meat
Goat or mutton slowly cooked with mustard oil, garlic and spices in a sealed earthen pot.
Explore ↗ठेकुआ03 · Sweets & festival foodsThekua
A moulded wheat-and-jaggery sweet closely associated with Chhath and journeys home.
Explore ↗सिलाव खाजा04 · Sweets & festival foodsSilao Khaja
A delicate, layered sweet associated with Silao in Nalanda district.
Explore ↗Bihar in practice
Culture in voice,
line and movement.
Not a cabinet of old things, but a living atlas of what people speak, make, perform, celebrate and carry forward.
Enter culture →Time & lives
The past speaks.
People answer.
Move through Bihar’s historical turning points and meet the people who made knowledge, art and possibility travel.
Bihar through time
01 · c. 6th–4th century BCEThe rise of Magadha
How a kingdom rooted in the middle Gangetic plain became a centre of power that reshaped the subcontinent.
↗02 · 3rd century BCE–13th century CENalanda Mahavihara
A monastic and scholastic institution whose long life connected Bihar to intellectual networks across Asia.
↗03 · 1917–1918Champaran Satyagraha
Indigo cultivation, peasant testimony and organised resistance made Champaran a decisive landscape in India’s freedom movement.
↗Explore all history →People who showed the way
VNMathematicianVashishtha Narayan Singh
A remarkable mathematical life that also asks how achievement, illness and public memory are narrated responsibly.
↗DMRoad builderDashrath Manjhi
A labourer from Gehlaur remembered for cutting a passage through rock—and for the unequal landscape that made the work necessary.
↗SDMadhubani artistSita Devi
An influential artist whose distinctive work helped carry Mithila painting from domestic surfaces into wider public recognition.
↗Meet more people →प्र
Why Pranam Bihar
“To tell better stories about a place is to imagine a better future for it.”
Bihar is not only a story of what was. Pranam Bihar looks at a living, changing place with curiosity, care and pride—never nostalgia alone.
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