India, Oct. 7 -- Bihar will elect its 18th assembly in a two-phase election beginning November 6. On the face of it, the contest is about whether Nitish Kumar will become the chief minister of the state for the fifth consecutive time after an election - he has taken oath as a CM nine times but either could not prove his majority (once) or resigned and took office again with a change alliance partners - or whether Tejashwi Yadav will lead his Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) to a victory after two decades. The fine print of this contest, however, is even more interesting, as Bihar's polity is at the cusp of the proverbial fork in the road , where factors and personalities which have dominated the state's politics are fading into oblivion and a n...