Motihari

Motihari is a city and the headquarters of East Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar, in the north-west of the state about 152 kilometres from the capital Patna and 80 kilometres west of Muzaffarpur. The English Wikipedia article notes that Mahatma Gandhi began his Satyagraha movement here, and the Gandhi Sangrahalaya in the town holds relics and photographs of the Champaran Satyagraha. The town lies on the east bank of the Moti Jheel lake, which divides it into two halves. At the 2011 census it had 126,158 residents in 22,224 households, with an effective literacy rate of 84.9 percent. The climate is classed as humid subtropical (Köppen Cwa), with rain concentrated in the monsoon from June to September.