 At a pinch, he would have deemed it to be the very center of the universe.While he loathed its venal, caste-ridden, ineffective governance, the violent nature of its society, its decrepit intellectual and cultural life and the slothful ways of its elite, he never missed an opportunity to recall its rich cultural and spiritual legacy, the noble character of its long suffering people and the revolutionary potential of its youth.Two of his books - "The Republic of Bihar" and "Changel