With Bihar Assembly polls nearing, the makhana story is getting hotter

As it gains commercial viability, the food will likely become a powerful political currency. Aditi Phadnis writes

Shambhu Prasad left Mithilanchal in 1998. He has worked in Japan and the United States, and now lives in London, where he has founded a telecom company that serves Britain’s National Health Service and other corporate clients.

 

But his heart is in Madhubani, and in makhana. When he comes to Madhubani, which is several times a year, he rolls up the sleeves of his Jermyn Street shirts, walks up to the shopfloor of his company, Madhubani Makhana, and personally supervises the grading of a commodity that he pledges will one day reach the heights that the California almond has been