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Before the brush became a camera: the 2,000-year story of Indian painting

From the candle-lit caves of Ajanta to the mud walls of Mithila, Indian painting has always been storytelling in colour, and UPSC loves asking who painted what, where, and how.

Writing the World's Longest Constitution: Inside the Constituent Assembly, 1946-50

The world's longest constitution was written between 1946 and 1950 by an assembly arguing over federalism, language, minority rights and property, while a civil war raged outside. Inside the debates that built the republic.