Special Intensive Revision. Corruption. Caste equations. Out-migration. Education. Yes, Bihar is weeks away from speaking its mind. Like any election — experts, observers and shoot-in-the-dark psephologists are deconstructing “strategy” and “stance”. Over the next few weeks, your neighbour, your niece in her second year of undergraduate studies, and your uncle will turn into electoral pundits. Lots of chatter. Lost in all of this is an important conversation about a 12-letter word that does not get the importance it deserves election after election. Unemployment.

Gautam Sharma (name changed) had a chat with me recently. This soft-spoken young man in his twenties drives for a ride-hailing company. Here’s what he told me: “I never thought I would be doing this. I wanted to be a web analyst.

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