In this op-ed, RC Sharma, former BSF commandant, writes how the CAPFs (General Administration) Bill, 2026, betrayed the deep trust of CAPF veterans in the current political leadership and risks turning India’s apolitical security forces into instruments of political alignment. Read More

In this satirical piece, former ADG BSF SK Sood writes that while the India-Bangladesh border remains difficult to secure, the BSF’s exploration of deploying reptiles marks a new frontier in border management, which perhaps renders professional soldiering redundant. Read More

In this op-ed, former DIG BSF Jagjeet Singh Bhalla writes that the CAPF Act, 2026, risks being a cosmetic reform that undermines judicial safeguards, erodes cadre morale, and perpetuates longstanding inequities in career progression within the forces. Read More

In this op-ed, RC Sharma, veteran BSF commandant, writes that when Parliament passed the CAPF Bill, it chose institutional convenience over institutional integrity – missing a historic opportunity to fix the structural deformities within the CAPFs. Read More

In this op-ed, RC Sharma, former BSF commandant, writes that India’s practice of diverting border-guarding forces for election duty is a strategic blunder that successive governments have recklessly normalized. Read More

In this op-ed, former DIG BSF Jagjeet Singh Bhalla argues that the longstanding claim of IPS superiority over CAPF cadre officers is an administrative fiction that dishonours those forces’ operational reality. Read More

In this op-ed, RC Sharma, former BSF commandant, writes that the CAPF Bill introduced in Parliament isn’t merely an assault on the career rights of cadre officers but a calculated dismantling of the moral fabric that holds India’s paramilitary forces together. Read More

In this op-ed, former ADG BSF SK Sood writes that six years after he first flagged the IPS lobby’s stranglehold on CAPF leadership, the structural fault line he warned about has only deepened – and the proposed CAPF Bill, risks cementing in law the very inequity the Supreme Court sought to correct. Read More

In this op-ed, Maj Gen Sudhakar Jee (R) writes about the slow death of the petrodollar, the yuan’s quiet rise, and India’s self-inflicted geopolitical wounds from siding with Washington and Tel Aviv at the cost of a strategically vital relationship with Tehran. Read More

In this op-ed, RC Sharma, veteran BSF commandant, writes how decades of IPS-dominated mismanagement have choked promotions, broken morale, and quietly hollowed out the combat effectiveness of the CAPFs. Read More