Op-Eds Opinion

Did Sayaji Shinde Pay the Price for Opposing Tapovan and Kumbh Tree Felling?

By BPN News Desk January 3, 2026

This is not an abstract fight. This is not a poetic lament about forests. This is about Tapovan. This is about trees cut in the name of the Kumbh. This is about power, permissions, and punishment. Sayaji Shinde did something most people with comfort, visibility, and social standing carefully avoid. He directly opposed tree felling […]

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Indian Gig Economy Strike and the Role of Kamra and Rathee in Narrative Sabotage

By BPN News Desk January 2, 2026

The Indian gig economy is booming, not failing. Yet just as the sector crossed a major growth milestone, a strategically timed strike was aggressively turned into a political spectacle by Kunal Kamra and Dhruv Rathee. What began as a labour dispute was deliberately weaponised into a narrative attack on a fast-growing Indian industry, portraying growth […]

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Indore Water Deaths Are a Crime, Not an Administrative Slip

By BPN News Desk January 2, 2026

People in Indore were poisoned by their own government. Sewage entered the drinking water supply, complaints were ignored, the flow was not stopped, and citizens kept consuming contaminated water until bodies began piling up in hospitals. This was not misfortune. This was the state failing at its most basic duty and then attempting to talk […]

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Ikkis and Bollywood’s Pakistan Fantasy Turns Into Moral Dilution

By BPN News Desk January 2, 2026

The film Ikkis presents itself as a tribute to the 1971 war and the sacrifice of Lt Arun Khetarpal, Param Vir Chakra. On the surface, it claims to honour courage, duty, and loss. But beneath that intention lies a familiar Bollywood instinct that has long distorted how India’s wars with Pakistan are remembered. The problem […]

Editorials Opinion

Uttarakhand Police Are Minimising a Racial Killing. The State Must Answer

By BPN News Desk December 30, 2025

Anjel Chakma did not die in an abstract “law and order situation”. He was stabbed to death in Dehradun after being racially abused. Stripping this case of its racial context is not neutrality or procedural caution. It is a deliberate narrowing of truth, and it reflects a failure that extends from the police on the […]

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Why a Ukrainian Attack on Putin’s Residence Makes Little Strategic Sense

By BPN News Desk December 30, 2025

The claim that Ukraine may have attacked the residence of Vladimir Putin with drones sounds dramatic, but drama is not strategy. When you strip away emotion, propaganda, and speculation, the idea quickly falls apart under basic logic. Wars, especially at this stage, are not fought on impulse. They are fought on calculation. And by that […]

Editorials Opinion

From Tina Dabi Row to Influencer Bureaucracy: When Civil Servants Chase Fame

By BPN News Desk December 22, 2025

The Barmer incident where students were detained after calling the District Collector a “reel star” should have ended as a minor footnote in local administration. Instead, it has exposed an uncomfortable truth about India’s bureaucracy in 2025. This was not about an insult. It was about power reacting defensively when its carefully curated image was […]

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Maharashtra Local Body Elections and the Cost of a Vote

By BPN News Desk December 21, 2025

Reports and rumours of up to ₹15,000 being paid for a single vote during Maharashtra’s local body elections initially sounded excessive, even by Indian electoral standards. But once the results were declared, with margins in several places collapsing to one vote, two votes, or a handful of ballots, the picture became harder to dismiss. This […]

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Why Does Rahul Gandhi Keep Meeting Figures Linked to George Soros?

By BPN News Desk December 20, 2025

This is not a conspiracy theory, nor is it an allegation of illegality or treason. It is a legitimate political question arising from a specific and recent event that deserves clarity. Just yesterday, Rahul Gandhi, India’s Leader of the Opposition, addressed an audience at the Hertie School in Berlin during his visit to Germany. The […]

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From Jihad to Jhola: Pakistan’s Two Most Reliable Exports

By BPN News Desk December 19, 2025

Pakistan has finally perfected its export model. After decades of trial and error, the country now has two globally recognised, consistently delivered products. Terrorists and beggars. One destabilises regions, the other humiliates the nation. Both travel well, both embarrass allies, and neither requires industrial policy, innovation, or governance. Saudi Arabia’s recent