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Agriculture

Economics of Animal Rearing: Livestock, Dairy, Fisheries and Poultry

From the living bank and the 30 per cent agri-GVA share to dairy leadership, the sunrise fisheries sector, poultry's efficiency and the livestock-climate two-way street.

29 September 2026 · 29 min read

Internal Security

Following the Money: Money Laundering and Terror Funding

The three stages of laundering, its economic and security damage, India's PMLA architecture, the FATF rulebook, crypto-era challenges and the NMFT 2022 platform.

29 September 2026 · 33 min read

Economy

Farming by the Numbers: MSP, Credit, PDS and the Allied-Sector Engine

1.08-hectare holdings, 22 MSP crops, 7.75 crore Kisan Credit Cards, 81 crore NFSA beneficiaries, the economics of Indian agriculture, minus the history.

28 September 2026 · 75 min read

Geography

The Economic Map of the World: Farms, Trade Blocs and the Chokepoints That Rule Trade

From shifting cultivation to plantation belts, trade blocs to the Strait of Malacca - how the world's farms, factories and shipping lanes fit together, and where India plugs in.

27 September 2026 · 33 min read

Geography

The Shape of the World: Mountains, Plateaus, Plains and Deserts

Mountains, plateaus, plains and deserts are the planet's autobiography in landform. Each family has a birth story, a global address and an economic personality, and UPSC keeps asking about all three.

27 September 2026 · 41 min read

Post-Independence India

1991: The Year India Pawned Its Gold and Freed Its Economy

In 1991, India's forex reserves crashed to about $1 billion and gold was pledged abroad. Weeks later, Rao and Manmohan Singh launched the LPG reforms that ended the Licence Raj. This is the full story of the crisis and the cure.

27 September 2026 · 28 min read

Modern History

The sponge and the Thames: how colonialism drained India's wealth

Naoroji did the arithmetic of empire and named it: the drain of wealth. How British policy silenced India's looms, commercialized its fields, and turned railways into drainpipes.

27 September 2026 · 21 min read

International Relations

The G20: India’s presidency and the Global South moment

From a 1999 crisis committee to the premier forum of global economic governance: what India achieved with its 2023 presidency, and why the G20 still matters despite its limits.

27 September 2026 · 19 min read

International Relations

India-UK: CETA, Vision 2035 and the living bridge

The 2025 Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement reset the economic relationship, Vision 2035 set the decade's agenda, and 1.8 million Indian-origin Britons form the living bridge. The frictions, from Khalistan to extradition, remain.

27 September 2026 · 12 min read

International Relations

India-Maldives: from 'India Out' to reset

How a 2023 'India Out' rupture gave way to a 2024 reset built on a Comprehensive Economic and Maritime Security Partnership, and why the Maldives remains central to India's Indian Ocean strategy.

27 September 2026 · 16 min read

International Relations

India-Bangladesh: rivers, borders and the reset

From the 1971 Liberation War to the August 2024 reset: settled borders, the Teesta test, golden-phase economics and Dhaka's reopening to Beijing and Islamabad.

27 September 2026 · 17 min read