Kisan Cold Storage Lane – a well-known address in Musallapur, the coaching hub of Patna – looks much as it always does. The narrow lane houses the offices and classrooms of two of the city’s best-known coaching institutes, both currently in the headlines.
Young aspirants, chasing the dream of a government job, stream in and out as ever, crowding the help desks and jostling shoulder to shoulder for information on course fees, class timings and batch numbers. High above the mouth of the lane hang the two institutes’ signboards. At the top is Khan Global Studies, owned by Faisal Khan, better known as Khan Sir. Just below sits Gyan Bindu GS Academy, owned by Roshan Anand, who belongs to the Yadav community.