This proves again that it's not the reservation but proper educational and economical support can bring great success even in weaker section of the society. - Vinod Sinha - June 2, 2006

Mr. Arjun Singh is eyeing on this Super 30 couching Institute and may force 50% reservation for OBC, SC and ST.

Let's pray God to salvage this Gurukul from the evil eyes of mean Politicians. - Tarakeswar Dubey - June 2, 2006

Nice article Seema. Such examples of unselfish contribution should be praised and emulated. - Dr Ignatius Joseph, Malacca, Malaysia - June 2, 2006

Bihar has always been the pathfinder for the entire nation and even the world. Nalanda University was established due to the very fact that the students of bihar have been brilliant in brain application. It also proves a point that, only hard work can do miracles neither reservations nor full cup of Horlicks/Bournvita or such costly beverages. I am sure that the parent of the poor children of Super-30 institute may not have been getting those facilities still they have managed to achieve the ultimate.

I want to tell the following line to Arjun Singh at this great moment:

You can reserve the sky, not the air - Thy bound to excel
You can reserve the flowers, not the fragrance - Thy bound to excel
You can reserve the rivers, not the water - Thy bound to excel
You can reserve the newspapers, not the news - Thy bound to excel
You can reserve the education, not the talent - Thy bound to excel
You can reserve the jobs, not the income - Thy bound to excel
You can reserve the life, not the death - Thy bound to excel

Once again I am closing my five finger in a form of fist, moving my arms above my head, and shouting, "BIHAR ZINDABAD", "I AM PROUD TO BE A BIHARI". - Ravish Kumar, Hyderabad - June 2, 2006

I feel very proud that we have wonderful visionaries like Mr. Abhayanand ADGP and Mr. Anand Kumar in my home state. These are two rare human beings. And I hope more and more people will follow their example. So Bihar can return to its former glory. I salute these two gentlemen for their selfless unselfish contribution. - Anita, Ottawa, Canada - June 2, 2006

I feel glimpse of proud in the ocean of irregularities in our state of Bihar after seeing such good works done by our selfless people. Can our so-called makers of society take lesson from this -NOT divide society in the name of caste and creed? - Dr K. Kanhaiya, UK - June 2, 2006

My sincere thanks and salute to both these gentlemen for their selfless public service. Service to others and charitable donations without any desire for petty gain is very common in the US. I hope more and more citizens of India come forward for such superior services. - Satyajeet, USA - June 2, 2006

Biharis have arrived, but to the "ideologically correct" this is no cause for celebration. On the contrary, we should view the success of Super-30 an occasion to rediscover oneself. What is our contribution to Bihar?

The politically correct view is that Biharis make only noise, because they believe in taking the opportunity to sing praise for them and settle scores. Why we need to remember Arjun Singh, Nitish Kumar on the success of Super-30?. It is their hard work and vision of two entrepreneurs. If they would not have been in Bihar they would have done it from some other place. Worse, it is claimed, the main legacy of PatnaDaily is to celebrate all these kind of occasions but we don’t know the entire 30 students' name yet. To prove my point, I will request all the writers to contribute at their will and give these 30 students some money so that they can buy books, some good clothes as we all know they come from poor background through PatnaDaily so that these students should feel proud of being Biharis.

Biharis are routinely vilified as a symbol of slavery and genocide, and the celebration of their arrival likened to a celebration of the Holocaust. The praises and good words are ominous, because we are using the success of Super-30 to target the concept of reservation and ignore the hard work done by poor friends to get into IIT. Why blame Lalu? We all are worse than Lalu.

Have Biharis arrived? No - in every important respect. We do want to bestow honor to Super-30, because their real goal is never to denigrate the values of other hard working states and to glorify the primitivism, mysticism, and collectivism embodied in the tribal cultures of other Indians who are not from Bihar.

Some cultures are better than others: a free society is better than slavery; reason is better than brute force as a way to deal with other men; productivity is better than stagnation. In fact, Bihari stands for man at his best. It stands for the values that make human life possible: reason, science, self-reliance, individualism, ambition, productive achievement. The values of Bihar civilization are values for all men; they cut across gender, ethnicity, and geography. We should honor Super-30 not for the ethnocentric reason that some of us happen to have Bihari ancestors but because it is the objectively superior culture. At the same time I would like to say, there are no racial achievements or racial failures, only individual achievements and individual failures. One cannot inherit moral worth or moral vice. "Self-esteem through others" is a self-contradiction and thus the sham of "preserving one's heritage" as a rational life goal. Thus the cruel hoax of "multicultural education" as an antidote to racism: it will continue to create more racism.

Individualism is the only alternative to the racism of political correctness. We must recognize that everyone is a sovereign entity, with the power of choice and independent judgment. That is the ultimate value of being Bihari, and it should be proudly proclaimed. Let us do something for these students. - Narayan Prasad -  June 2, 2006

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