On the last day of February this year, Ajay Kumar Yadav brought his bride home to a hero’s welcome. That is because, Neetu, his wife, was the first to marry someone from this remote village in decades and move in. It was possible only because the villagers had themselves hewn a six km stretch of road, cutting through the hills and forest, thus paving the way for marriages in Bihar’s ‘village of bachelors’. “It is because of this road that I got married, otherwise I too would have been just one of the scores of bachelors here,” Ajay Yadav triumphantly told this reporter at the village, which can be reached only after a 10 km trek.

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