From Calling Somalis Garbage to Stealing Oil at Sea: America’s Piracy Rebrand Under Trump

By BPN News Desk December 15, 2025

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Once upon a time, Donald Trump looked at Somalia and decided the problem was Somalis. He did not bother with history, colonial plunder, illegal fishing, or toxic waste dumping. He did not bother with context. He just reached for the nearest insult and called an entire people “garbage.” The

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Bollywood Celebrities’ Virtue Signalling and the Hypocrisy Problem

By BPN News Desk December 13, 2025

Celebrities in India have discovered a convenient shortcut to relevance. When the scripts slow down and the spotlight dims, they reach for moral philosophy. The latest exhibit is actor Radhika Apte, who recently expressed discomfort with violence in cinema and linked it to her inability to bring a child into today’s world. On the surface, […]

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Selective Outrage: When Data Centres in Arizona Are ‘Smart’ but in Noida Are ‘Sinful’

By BPN News Desk November 6, 2025

India’s data revolution was supposed to be our great digital equaliser — until the moral gatekeepers of the “green conscience” found a new villain: the data centre. The same facilities that power AI, banking, healthcare, and governance are now being recast as water-guzzling monsters. Publications like Down to Earth are suddenly discovering groundwater as if […]

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United Nations, Divided World: When UNGA Became a Theatre of Hypocrisy

By BPN News Desk September 28, 2025

The 80th UN General Assembly was meant to be the world’s grand stage for diplomacy and cooperation, but what unfolded was closer to a travelling circus. Leaders arrived not with solutions but with scripts written for domestic applause. The world is facing urgent crises — from Gaza’s devastation to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, from Pakistan’s […]

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Let Netas Practice the Policies They Frame: Live Like the Middle Class

By BPN News Desk September 26, 2025

There is a saying that those who make the rules must first live by them. In India, the exact opposite has become our reality. Our MPs, MLAs, judges, police officers, and civil servants write policies that weigh down the backs of ordinary families while they themselves remain untouched by the consequences. The middle class is […]

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Keep Your Tariffs, Clown. India Keeps Its Spine

By BPN News Desk August 5, 2025

When Donald Trump tweeted his outrage over India’s Russian oil imports, it wasn’t just a foreign policy position—it was a tantrum. A full-blown, playground-level meltdown. You’d think the man found out India replaced him with a more stable supplier of spray tan. Instead, all India did was buy oil for its citizens at a reasonable […]