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International Relations
India-Germany relations: Europe’s anchor in Asia
From 1951 diplomatic ties to Berlin’s Focus on India strategy: the Green and Sustainable Development Partnership, Project 75I, skilled-migration bridges and the CBAM friction.
30 September 2026 · 7 min read
Agriculture
PDS, Buffer Stocks and Food Security
The full machinery of feeding India: PDS evolution and TPDS targeting, NFSA 2013 and free grain under PMGKAY, ONORC portability, buffer-stock norms decoded, and the AAAQ road to Zero Hunger.
29 September 2026 · 31 min read
Economy
The RBI: India's Money Manager
The RBI decoded: its 1935 origins, six classic functions, the full monetary toolkit (CRR, SLR, repo, OMO), the six-member MPC, and where monetary policy's power ends.
28 September 2026 · 47 min read
Indian Society
From Chipko to Hashtags: The New Grammar of Social Movements
From Chipko's tree-huggers to the Lokpal crowds to #MeToo India: how Indian social movements reinvented themselves after 1980, environmental, feminist, anti-corruption, and digital-age waves, with their critiques.
27 September 2026 · 36 min read
Indian Society
Glocal India: How Globalisation Rewired Society Without Erasing It
Three decades after 1991: McAloo Tikki, Hinglish and 197 endangered languages. UPSC keeps asking whether globalisation threatens Indian pluralism, this article gives you the theories, the data, and the dialectical answer.
27 September 2026 · 38 min read
Indian Society
The Demographic Crossroads: From Population Bomb to Dividend Window
India is the world's most populous country, and its fertility has already slipped below replacement. The exam no longer asks how to control numbers, but how to convert a young workforce into prosperity before the dividend window closes.
27 September 2026 · 24 min read
World History
Decolonization: How Empires Unraveled Across Asia and Africa
From Ghana's 1957 breakthrough to Algeria's brutal eight-year war and the Suez crisis that buried Britain's superpower pretensions, the forces, the process, and the wounds of empire's end.
27 September 2026 · 15 min read
World History
Two Roads to a Nation: The Unification of Italy and Germany
Garibaldi sailed with a thousand volunteers; Bismarck calculated three wars. How 19th-century nationalism built Italy from below and Germany from above, the two unifications compared.
27 September 2026 · 11 min read
Post-Independence India
From Zamindars to HYV Seeds: Land Reforms and the Green Revolution
From zamindars to HYV seeds: how land reforms broke feudalism on paper, why ceilings failed, what Vinoba Bhave's Bhoodan achieved, and how the Green Revolution ended hunger while poisoning the soil.
27 September 2026 · 35 min read
Modern History
Three Conferences, One Fast, and the Pact That Invented Reservation
Three conferences in London failed to write India's constitution - but they triggered a fast unto death in a Pune jail that still decides how India elects its Dalit representatives.
27 September 2026 · 26 min read
Art & Culture
Zero, surgery and rust-proof iron: the science ancient India actually did
Aryabhata measured the Earth, Sushruta rebuilt noses, and a 1,600-year-old pillar still refuses to rust. Separate the real achievements from the hype.
27 September 2026 · 29 min read
Ancient History
The Tigers Who Ruled the Ocean: The Imperial Cholas
A fleet sacked Srivijaya in 1025 CE, villages elected their assemblies by lot, and bronzes danced: the imperial Cholas turned the Bay of Bengal into their lake.
27 September 2026 · 34 min read
Ancient History
The empire that ran on spies, ledgers and war elephants: the Mauryan machine
Spies disguised as monks, 27 superintendents, a Greek ambassador's field report, and an emperor who starved himself to death as a Jain monk. Inside the Mauryan machine.
27 September 2026 · 31 min read
Social Justice
Hunger in India: the GHI debate and the nutrition crisis
A food-surplus country that ranks 102 of 123 on the Global Hunger Index: the hunger-nutrition debate, the GHI methodology row, and the triple burden of malnutrition.
27 September 2026 · 24 min read
Social Justice
Higher education and the three-language question
GER gaps, NAAC accreditation, NEP 2020 reforms, research funding, foreign campuses and the three-language formula: the full GS-II guide to higher education in India.
27 September 2026 · 44 min read
Governance
NGOs and civil society: partners, watchdogs and the FCRA debate
Over 34 lakh registered NGOs make India’s civil society among the world’s largest. What the sector does, why the FCRA 2020 amendments triggered a reckoning, and the 2025 question: non-state actor or anti-state actor?
27 September 2026 · 28 min read
Polity
Anti-Defection Law: the Tenth Schedule and its discontents
The Tenth Schedule from 1985 to today: disqualification triggers, the merger exception, the 91st Amendment, Kihoto Hollohan, and the Speaker's conflict of interest.
27 September 2026 · 25 min read
Polity
Federalism in India: why the Centre is stronger by design
Why the framers built a federation with a built-in central advantage, how the Seventh Schedule divides power, and why 2025's language, water and CBI fights keep testing the design.
27 September 2026 · 33 min read