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International Relations
The WHO: guardian of global health
The World Health Organization directs global health policy for 194 member states. This article covers its 1948 founding, mandate, PHEIC mechanism, COVID-19 record, the 2025 Pandemic Agreement, US withdrawal, and India's deep partnership.
30 September 2026 · 15 min read
Economy
Startup India: Building the World's Third-Largest Startup Engine
Startup India (2016) is the government's flagship innovation mission: DPIIT recognition, the 80-IAC tax holiday, Fund of Funds, seed funding, credit guarantees, MAARG, BHASKAR and state startup policies. This article unpacks every instrument, the challenges, and why it matters for jobs.
29 September 2026 · 24 min read
Economy
Who Pays for the State? Direct vs Indirect Taxes and the GST Story
CBDT vs CBIC, the 101st Amendment, the GST Council's 5%-18% Next-Gen overhaul, India's tax system decoded for Prelims and Mains.
28 September 2026 · 49 min read
Indian Society
The Invisible Majority: Who Really Counts as Vulnerable in India?
From 2.68 crore persons with disabilities to 150 million ageing Indians, UPSC's 2026 disability question proves vulnerable sections are now core syllabus. A data-driven map of who is vulnerable, why, and what the state owes them.
27 September 2026 · 38 min read
World History
Between the Wars: When Democracy Faltered and the Economy Collapsed
The League of Nations failed, the world economy crashed in 1929, and dictators rose on the ruins. How the inter-war years mounted UPSC's famous 'serious challenge to the democratic state system'.
27 September 2026 · 12 min read
Post-Independence India
When a Man Starved to Death, India Redrew Its Map
A 58-day fast unto death redrew India's map. From the Dhar and JVP committees that said no, to the Fazl Ali Commission and the 1956 Act, how popular pressure carved India's linguistic states.
27 September 2026 · 42 min read
Governance
Minimum government, maximum governance: the deregulation turn
From the Jan Vishwas Act’s decriminalisation of 183 provisions to self-attestation and trust-based regulation: what shrinking the state’s footprint means for governance quality.
27 September 2026 · 14 min read
Governance
Police reforms: the unfinished agenda from Prakash Singh to SMART policing
Governed by an 1861 colonial Act and seven binding Supreme Court directives that states keep diluting, the police remain India’s most visibly unreformed institution. The Prakash Singh judgment, the Model Police Act, and why reform stalls.
27 September 2026 · 19 min read
Governance
The digital divide: who e-governance leaves behind
38% of rural households have high-speed broadband against 85% in cities; only 37% of women use mobile internet. The access, literacy, gender and language gaps behind India’s digital state, and what bridging them requires.
27 September 2026 · 16 min read
Polity
Comparing Constitutions: India, the United States and Britain
How India's Constitution compares with the American and British models: parliamentary versus presidential, federal versus unitary, rigid versus flexible, and who guards rights.
27 September 2026 · 30 min read
Polity
Centre-State Relations: Legislative, Administrative and Financial
How the Constitution divides law-making, administration and money between the Union and the states: the Seventh Schedule, Articles 245 to 280, the GST exception, and what Sarkaria and Punchhi recommended.
27 September 2026 · 41 min read
Polity
How the Constitution is amended: Article 368 and the three types
Article 368 decoded: the three types of constitutional amendment, the special-majority procedure, state ratification, compulsory presidential assent, and the procedural and substantive limits on Parliament's power.
27 September 2026 · 34 min read