District · Pataliputra
Patna
The city that keeps forgetting how old it is.
Once Pataliputra — capital of the Mauryas, the Guptas and half of Asia’s ideas. Today, a river city stacked over 2,500 years of layers few tourists ever notice.
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Stories
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Places
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People
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Food
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Music
Beyond the obvious
Places.
Ghats of Patna
Twenty-one river stairs where the city meets the Ganges every dusk.
Agam Kuan
A well from Ashoka’s time that has been drawing water for 2,300 years.
Voices worth knowing
People.
Anand Kumar
Tailor & Storykeeper
Runs a two-machine shop in Patna’s old city and remembers customers and their marriages going back forty-two years.
On the table
Food.
Sattu Sharbat
Roasted gram flour with black salt, lemon and cumin — Bihar’s summer handshake.
Litti Chokha
Roasted sattu-stuffed dough with smoked brinjal-tomato-potato mash.
