When the Border Held: BSF’s defining hour in Op Sindoor
The Indian Army chief, Gen Upendra Dwivedi, pinning a medal on a BSF soldier for playing an exceptional role during Operation Sindoor, in May 2025. (File photo)On Decembe…
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Sanjiv Krishan Sood
Sanjiv Krishan Sood retired as an additional director general of the Border Security Force. He has served along India’s borders Pakistan and Bangladesh, including sensitive and volatile sectors, in his 38 years of meritorious service in the force.
Articles by Sanjiv Krishan Sood
Reptiles for Border Guarding: A win-win case for all in the system
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)After 38 years of service in the Border Security Force – spending the better part of my adult life analysing t…
When Leadership Lacks Grounding: The real risk in the CAPF-IPS debate
A BSF solder keeping watch over the other side of the international border with Pakistan, somewhere in the western section. (File photo for representation) Let me be dire…
Operation Sindoor’s success cannot mask Pahalgam’s security failures
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2025–26)After days of parliamentary disruption, the nation finally witnessed a 16-hour marathon debate on Operation Si…
Kashmir Book Ban: Why censorship can’t cure valley’s complex reality
India Sentinels illustration for representation.A troubling development has emerged from Jammu & Kashmir, one that deserves far more attention than it has received amid t…
Akhand Bharat and ‘retaking’ Pakistan-occupied Kashmir
An Indian soldier keeps watch at the LoC in Kashmir. Capturing Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is an ambition repeatedly expressed by our politicians, sometimes directly and so…
Modernization and reforming our border-guarding forces
A BSF soldier somewhere near the LoC in J&K. (Representational image)The government of India has allocated ₹248.30 crore for the “Modernization Plan IV” for the central a…
Recent Maoist attack in Gaya exposes system’s apathy towards CAPFs yet again
CRPF soldiers in an anti-Maoist operation. (Representational photo)The serial improvised explosive device (IED) blasts by left-wing extremists on February 25 in Bihar’s G…
Placing border-guarding forces under the Army?
BSF soldiers patrol near line of control in Gulmarg, J&K.An article by Colonel Ramesh Davesar (retired) titled “A National Border Guard” was published on Indian Express, …
Efficiency of CAPFs suffering from ‘glass ceiling’ effect
CRPF jawans in an anti-Maoist operation in West Bengal.The Indian Express carried an op-ed by Mutha Ashok Jain, on September 9, titled “Practice of reserving cadre posts …
Animal support for border guarding
I was elated by the unique initiative recently taken by a formation of a border-guarding force responsible to secure a sensitive border. The initiative is simple, indigen…
Leadership of security forces is failing nation to control Maoists
CRPF personnel carry the coffin of a fallen fellow soldier in the April 3, 2021 Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh.Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during his premiership…