Lal Bihari and the Association of Dead People
Lal Bihari is a unremarkable farmer from Uttar Pradesh. In 1975, this local man went to the bank to take out a loan. On presenting the requisite paperwork, Bihari was told that he was in fact, techincally and legally, dead. After much investigation and effort, it transpired that a conniving uncle had bribed a local police official to declare him dead so that he could pilfer Bihari’s one acre of land. Not so unremarkable after all. Bihari spent the following nineteen years