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Essay
Words We Can't Agree On II: Justice, Power, Education, Freedom
Justice, power, education and freedom are the Essay paper's most returned-to words because each hides a live tension. This article splits each word into its competing definitions, climbs its concept ladder, and shows how to deploy it in a high-scoring essay.
29 September 2026 · 40 min read
Essay
Words We Can't Agree On I: Happiness, Wealth, Truth
Happiness, wealth and truth are words the Essay paper returns to again and again because their very definitions are the argument. This article maps each word's competing definitions, its concept ladder, and how to deploy it in a high-scoring essay.
29 September 2026 · 33 min read
Internal Security
Terror's Many Faces: Terrorism and Organised Crime
Causes and manifestations of terrorism, terror financing, narco-terrorism, the crime-terror nexus, and India's counter-terrorism architecture from NIA to NMFT.
29 September 2026 · 31 min read
Internal Security
The Red Corridor Shrinks: Left-Wing Extremism
From the 1967 Naxalbari uprising to the March 2026 elimination declaration: the phases, causes, Red Corridor, SAMADHAN doctrine and the development-extremism cycle behind India's Maoist insurgency.
29 September 2026 · 30 min read
Modern History
A century of sparks: the civil uprisings before 1857
Paika, Pazhassi Raja, Velu Thampi, the Poligars, Kukas, Pagal Panthis and a dozen more: the civil uprisings that shook Company rule before 1857, with leaders, regions and causes.
28 September 2026 · 35 min read
Economy
Inflation: Why Prices Rise and How India Fights Back
Why prices rise, how India measures it, and the fightback toolkit. Demand-pull vs cost-push, CPI vs WPI, food inflation's structural roots, and who wins when prices climb.
28 September 2026 · 37 min read
World History
1939-1945: The War That Remade the World
From Poland 1939 to Hiroshima 1945: the causes, the turning points, the home fronts, and how the deadliest war in history gave birth to the UN and the bipolar world.
27 September 2026 · 14 min read
World History
1917: The Year Russia Rewrote the Rules of Power
In eight months, Russia buried a 300-year monarchy and birthed the world's first socialist state. The causes, the two revolutions of 1917, and why the shockwaves reached all the way to India.
27 September 2026 · 15 min read
World History
Carving the World: Colonialism and the New Imperialism
In one generation, Africa went from 10% to nearly 100% under European rule. The causes, methods, and consequences of the New Imperialism, UPSC GS-1 notes on colonialism and empire.
27 September 2026 · 13 min read
Post-Independence India
Three Wars, One Decade: 1962, 1965 and 1971
Three wars in one decade: 1962 shattered an illusion, 1965 redeemed an army, 1971 redrew the map of South Asia. Causes, course, outcomes and the lessons UPSC loves to ask.
27 September 2026 · 48 min read
GS-4
Corruption: causes, consequences and the fight against it
The pathology of corruption: its petty, grand and political forms, the layered causes behind it, what it costs society, and the ethical and institutional fight against it.
27 September 2026 · 40 min read
Social Justice
Homelessness and urban exclusion: the invisible poor
Who India's 1.77 million homeless are, the structural causes of urban exclusion, shelter and rehabilitation schemes, and why cities keep failing their poorest residents.
27 September 2026 · 22 min read
International Relations
India-US relations: the defining partnership of the 21st century
From the 2008 civil nuclear deal to iCET and the Quad: how India and the US moved from Cold War estrangement to strategic convergence, and what still causes friction.
27 September 2026 · 26 min read
Governance
Corruption in India: causes, costs and the legal framework
Why corruption persists in India, what it costs the economy and institutions, and how the law fights back: the PCA 1988, its 2018 amendment, and the UNCAC backdrop.
27 September 2026 · 26 min read