Kunwar Sanjeev Singh

JaiBihar.com is a newly launched blog magazine by Bihari bloggers – all from diverse interests and backgrounds.

We started on August 15, 2008 and it really picked up very fast (we’re still in the beta-phase with our team working to add new features to the website). The traffic trends were encouraging and it was truly amazing to see the overwhelming support from visitors. So, we thought to shape it as a news magazine. JaiBihar.com is a magazine without paper. A collection of original journalism, analysis and opinion. Members of our team also post link-intensive musings, ramblings and other assorted writings.

Our authors often seek to inspire advocacy or citizen action. This venue can also serve as its own form of activism, a tool to spur action on issues that really matters. Without worrying about being “secular” or “communal”, our combined aim is to engage, motivate, and stimulate interaction of ideas and thoughts.

It’s difficult to produce an honest news story when you lie to do it. The national media and other vested agencies have been doing it for long. Every news that is about Bihar is “broken” to make it a “Breaking News”, constantly broadcasted on 24×7 TV channels and splashed across front pages of all prominent newspapers.

While Bobby Jindal, who converted himself to Christianity, is a darling of English language media for his political victories abroad, the triumphs of Sabita Singh (the first South Asian judge in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, US) has almost remained obscure in the main media. Its not Ajit Singh, a successful Bihari entrepreneur, that makes a good “news item”… instead, Lalu Prasad for all his strange antics, idiotic humour, bad jokes and cheeky commentary is projected as the “face” of Bihar. You don’t agree with them. Do you? Even we don’t trust them and piqued that all bad press is often directed at our people. A lot of questions can be raised about the neutrality of media, that has left no stone unturned to paint Bihar as a “damaged brand”. So here we are, to counter them with JaiBihar.com.

JaiBihar is about the need for a real independent media which is free not only from the clutches of the State but also from profit and commercial considerations. Our reporting will contain little or no “spin,” and can be seen as more trustworthy. As an alternative media source we vouch to provide you with a different (mostly dissident) viewpoint than that provided by major mainstream and corporate newspapers, magazines, TV, and other media vehicles.

We are one of the believers who think that the phenomena of democratic participation will change the face of media creation, distribution and consumption.