Author - Sandhya Jain

Articles, Law, Policy, Public Policy

Reservation Debate Needs Compassion and Rationality

Sandhya Jain

February 17, 2026

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10 minutes

Author argues that the drastic lowering of NEET PG qualifying percentiles exposes a widening gap between academic benchmarks and admission outcomes in medical education.

Articles, Law

Quota Norms Deserve Scrutiny

Sandhya Jain

February 2, 2026

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12 minutes

The author argues that the Supreme Court’s stay reflects judicial unease with regulatory overreach that may entrench caste identities instead of transcending them within higher education.

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The fall of Zelensky

Sandhya Jain

December 6, 2025

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12 minutes

The author argues that the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s cadaverous regime is inching towards an ignominious end, driven partly by its illegitimacy, partly by EU-NATO elites’ desire to continue the war, but above all by its unsustainable corruption.

Articles, Law, Policy

Farcical debate over the Age of Consent

Sandhya Jain

November 10, 2025

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10 minutes

The author argues that the renewed debate on lowering the age of consent represents not progress but regression — a farcical replay of a tragic historical issue.

Articles, Diplomacy, Politics, Security & Strategy

Saudi-Pakistan Tango

Sandhya Jain

October 8, 2025

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10 minutes

President Trump is clearly crafting a new global alliance system where regional nuclear powers serve as security providers for allies with conflicting interests.

Articles, Diplomacy, Security & Strategy

Downturn in India- US ties

Sandhya Jain

September 2, 2025

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7 minutes

The author argues that as Cold War 2.0 deepens, Trump seems to favour some of the alignments of the post-World War II era; however, he disapproves of the European Union and is undermining the consolidated NATO-centric Western bloc of Cold War days.

Articles, Diplomacy

BRICS 2025: Irreversible Trend Towards National Currencies

Sandhya Jain

July 25, 2025

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6 minutes

As a multipolar world replaces Washington’s brief unipolar moment, the once formidable NATO is losing steam....The Global South is ready to break the shackles of Western hegemony.

Articles, Diplomacy

BRICS 2025 without Xi and Putin

Sandhya Jain

July 3, 2025

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9 minutes

With Russia and China’s heads of state possibly absent, the Summit nonetheless underscores BRICS+ as a growing alternative to the Bretton Woods system, especially in trade and finance.

Articles, Culture & Society

Killer Wife: A sign of Moral Decline

Sandhya Jain

June 25, 2025

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11 minutes

Why couldn’t she tell the Raghuvanshi family about her love affair and call the wedding off? The story raises fundamental questions about how individuals today contemplate murder with shocking equanimity and how a civilisational crisis of unknown magnitude is unfolding before our eyes.

Articles, Security & Strategy

Operation Sindoor: Ceasing the Ceasefire

Sandhya Jain

May 16, 2025

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India decided to modify its rules of engagement with Pakistan, whereby any future act of terror will be formally considered as an Act of War.