My second field trip in Bihar took me from Patna to Raxaul in the far north. A couple of days there, and then I began trickling southwards. Bettiah. Gopalganj and then Darbhanga. And then Patna again. I will head further south tomorrow — towards Gaya — before turning northeast towards Nalanda and then straight east for Bhagalpur. The task of trying to understand how Bihar is doing continues to flummox and bewilder. Along the way, I am also trying to understand how DeMonetisation is affecting the people of Bihar. This was the first dispatch from the north. On its impacts at Raxaul, and how public opinion is split over “notebandi”.