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Visualizing rural Bihar's 'Tight Lipped Talent' with Sankarshan Thakur

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As we are in midway of Lok Sabha elections 2019, Bihar is set play an important decisive role in formation of government at the centre. In midst of election manoeuvre crucial, relevant and fundamental aspects of Bihar's society are often left behind either intentionally or unintentionally. But this didn't happen in case of our tour to report subaltern areas of Bihar. Accompanying veteran journalist, the roving editor of The Telegraph  Sankarshan Thakur  a rich extraordinary talent based in Bihar's village was seen in Samastipur district. Thakur Saheb's desire to search a nursery to buying few saplings to get them planted in Singhwara (his paternal village home) came up during conversation while reporting. We were successful in finding out a nursery but that was unique in every aspect springing a surprise for us which was out of our imagination. It was owned by  Arun Kumar , an individual with hard-working physical built and soft spoken lingual trait. Whil