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Sandhya Jain

Author, Journalist, Editor

Sandhya Jain is the Editor of www.vijayvaani.com, an internet-based public opinions forum dedicated to establishing a niche for independent journalism. The forum has been driven by the mainstream media’s selective coverage on a range of issues critical to national sovereignty.

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Congress and Amitabh Mattoo: Reviving the Musharraf Formula? (India-Conflicts)

If it is true, as credible sources suggest, that JNU professor Amitabh Mattoo has joined the Congress Party as a prelude to elevation as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (a post vacated by the controversial Shashi Tharoor), then the move must be viewed as an expression of the ruling party’s determination to press ahead with implementation of the discredited Musharraf Formula, doubtless at the prodding of the United States.

By: Sandhya Jain
Jammu & Kashmir: Oppressing A Free Press (India-Conflicts)

In a behaviour surpassing the infamous Emergency of 1975, senior J&K government personnel have openly warned the management of 9-year-old Early Times, the second largest selling newspaper of the state, against taking up public issues. Further, they have asked the paper to 'conform to the comfort levels' of the rulers.

By: Sandhya Jain

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1947 War: Time for Accountability (Defence-Security)

By suddenly inviting debate on the interlocutors report on Jammu and Kashmir, especially its startling suggestion to restore the State’s pre-1953 status, the Congress Party has virtually disowned the actions of its longest serving Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, thus diminishing the legitimacy and stature of the political dynasty descended from him.

By: Sandhya Jain
Pakistan Hindus: Return to Roots (Foreign-Affairs)

Amidst heightened sectarian strife in Pakistan, both inter-community as well as intra-Islam, a small jatha of Hindu landless labourers has reached the capital in quest of asylum, and eventual citizenship.

By: Sandhya Jain
Are we moving towards a separate Criminal Law for Minorities? (Governance-Judiciary)

In recent times, some clemency petitions concerning death row convicts have given rise to apprehensions that we may be subtly edging towards a de facto separate criminal law for minority communities.

By: Sandhya Jain
AFSPA removal: Omar unpopularity triggers demand (India-Politics)

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has trained his guns on the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) as a device to deflect public anger against the inertia and maladministration of his regime, his personal unpopularity having scaled unprecedented heights.

By: Sandhya Jain
Katju: Need for judicial introspection (Governance-Judiciary)

It would be churlish to deny the merit of some scathing observations made about the print and electronic media by the new chairman of the Press Council of India, in a recent television interview.

By: Sandhya Jain
Lokpal: Not a Judges and Lawyers clique, please (Governance-Judiciary)

Successive Governments at the Centre have tried to create the institution of Lokpal at the national level, after the idea was first mooted by late MP, Dr. L.M. Singhvi.

By:
Rohit Shrivastav &
Sandhya Jain
Human Rights: How the shoe pinches (Foreign-Affairs)

The concept of Human Rights is a political baton wielded by the West to keep former colonies and/or non-Christian nations in thrall. Yet Western regimes find the very human rights they peddle intolerable when invoked against themselves.

By: Sandhya Jain
San Francisco: Activism over Human Rights-wallahs on Kashmir (India-Conflicts)

Coinciding with advocate Prashant Bhushan’s explosive espousal, comes news of a campaign to whip up support in the US for re-instatement of suspended Professors Richard Shapiro and Angana Chatterji, also activists on Kashmir.

By: Sandhya Jain
Narendra Modi: BJP-bashing a surrogate for RSS-bashing (India-Politics)

Having cut his own nose to spite his face in 2009, Narendra Modi is now doing what lesser men do at such frustrating moments – bash up somebody / something else.

By: Sandhya Jain
Status quo or pre-1953 status? (India-Conflicts)

Several events have conspired to create apprehensions about the report the Union Home Ministry-appointed interlocutors will submit regarding Jammu and Kashmir.

By: Sandhya Jain

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