New Delhi: The recently concluded Bihar assembly elections have drawn global notice not just for the landslide victory delivered to the ruling NDA, but for the unexpected comeback of 74-year-old Nitish Kumar. Almost written off on perceived health issues and battling anti-incumbency, he still managed to claim another term as chief minister.

In the Financial Times , the Bihar stalwart has been branded as the “Joe Biden of India”. During the campaign for the assembly polls in Bihar, he was backed by aides who were not long before “alarmed by his gaffes, blank stares and memory lapses.” But there’s a difference. Nitish Kumar won.

“If Bihar were a country it would be the world’s 12th poorest, behind Liberia,” writes Ruchir Sharma. “That Kumar won anyway says much about the clash of

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