Opinion

Dressed Up, Not Reformed: The truth behind the CAPF Act, 2026
avatar Jagjeet Singh Bhalla

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
 
 

Address the deformities in CAPF structure
avatar Rattan Chand Sharma, Commandant (Retd) BSF

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
 
 

Are elections compromising our border and national security?
avatar Rattan Chand Sharma, Commandant (Retd) BSF

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
 
 

Debunking the myth of IPS superiority over CAPF cadres
avatar Jagjeet Singh Bhalla

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
 
 

Commanded Into Crisis: Systematic wrecking of CAPFs’ moral fabric
avatar Rattan Chand Sharma, Commandant (Retd) BSF

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
 
 

When Leadership Lacks Grounding: The real risk in the CAPF-IPS debate
avatar Sanjiv Krishan Sood

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
 
 

Petrodollar’s last rites, yuan’s quiet rise, and India’s self-inflicted wounds
avatar Maj Gen Sudhakar Jee, VSM (R)

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
 
 

Stagnant Ranks, Broken Morale: The cost of CAPF’s skewed HR policies
avatar Rattan Chand Sharma, Commandant (Retd) BSF

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
 
 

Chanakya’s Warning and India’s Shame: How the state fails its CAPFs
avatar Rattan Chand Sharma, Commandant (Retd) BSF

In this op-ed, former BSF Commandant RC Sharma writes that the government’s chronic neglect of the CAPFs’ rightful entitlements and court-ordered dues is corroding their morale and combat readiness. Read More
 
 

Iran is winning the war – and Washington knows it
avatar Maj Gen Sudhakar Jee, VSM (R)

In this op-ed, Maj Gen Sudhakar Jee (R) writes that the Iran-US & Israel war is following Tehran’s script, not Trump’s. The evidence is now undeniable. Read More
 
 

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