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International Relations

Defence diplomacy: exercises, exports and partnerships

India’s military as a diplomatic instrument: Malabar to Garuda Shakti, LEMOA logistics pacts, BrahMos exports, training partnerships and the structural gaps holding it back.

30 September 2026 · 9 min read

Agriculture

Agricultural Storage, Transport and Marketing in India

Cold chain gaps, the NABCONS loss figures, FCI storage issues, the full Shanta Kumar Committee recommendations, APMC reforms, e-NAM's 2026 numbers, supply chain management and the tomato cobweb.

29 September 2026 · 36 min read

Internal Security

The Invisible Battlefield: Cyber Security

From CERT-In and NCIIPC to the DPDP Act, 2023 and the Hanoi cybercrime convention: the complete GS-3 guide to India's cyber security architecture, laws, threats and gaps.

29 September 2026 · 42 min read

Disaster Management

Human-Made Calamities: Stampedes, Fires and Dam Failures

Stampedes, urban fires and dam failures are manufactured by human choices long before they strike. This article examines crowd disasters and the NDMA's 2014 guidelines, India's fire-safety gap, wildfires, and dam safety under the Dam Safety Act of 2021.

29 September 2026 · 28 min read

Social Justice

Poverty alleviation: programmes, gaps and the way forward

From MGNREGA to DAY-NRLM and PM Awas: a review of India's poverty-alleviation programmes, why outcomes lag outlays, and what a credible reform agenda looks like.

27 September 2026 · 33 min read

Social Justice

Skill development: bridging the education-employment gap

The education-skill-employment nexus, the Skill India ecosystem, apprenticeships and NSQF: a complete GS-II guide to skill development and employability in India.

27 September 2026 · 30 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

Social Justice

Mental health in India: the neglected epidemic

From the NMHS data and the 2017 rights-based law to Tele MANAS and NIMHANS: a complete guide to India's mental health crisis, its treatment gap and the way forward.

27 September 2026 · 30 min read

Social Justice

Health missions that matter: Ayushman Bharat, NHM and beyond

From PM-JAY insurance to ASHAs, maternal schemes, WASH, digital health and AYUSH: a complete guide to India's flagship health interventions, their achievements and their gaps.

27 September 2026 · 53 min read

Social Justice

Transgender persons: rights, the 2019 Act and inclusion

The legal arc from NALSA (2014) to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019: status, the protection framework, welfare schemes and the inclusion gap.

27 September 2026 · 29 min read

Social Justice

Minorities in India: the Sachar findings and welfare schemes

Who India's minorities are, the constitutional safeguards they carry, the Sachar and Ranganath Mishra committee findings, and the welfare schemes meant to close the gaps.

27 September 2026 · 39 min read

Social Justice

Scheduled Castes: safeguards, schemes and persistent gaps

A GS-II guide to Scheduled Castes: constitutional safeguards, the Atrocities Act, manual scavenging, empowerment schemes and why caste gaps persist.

27 September 2026 · 38 min read

Social Justice

Persons with disabilities: rights, the RPwD Act and inclusion

A GS-II guide to disability rights in India: the RPwD Act 2016, job and education quotas, the accessibility gap, support schemes and the inclusion agenda.

27 September 2026 · 33 min read

Social Justice

India's elderly: ageing with dignity and the care gap

A GS-II guide to India's elderly: the ageing curve, pension and health vulnerabilities, the 2007 maintenance Act, senior-citizen schemes and the care-economy agenda.

27 September 2026 · 30 min read

Governance

Public policy and the implementation gap: why good schemes fail

Policy in India is drafted in ministries, shaped by NITI Aayog and approved by the Cabinet. The harder story is what happens after: the last-mile gap, frontline discretion and the evaluation tools meant to close it.

27 September 2026 · 27 min read

Governance

Sector regulators up close: SEBI, TRAI, CCI, IRDAI, PFRDA and FSSAI

From SEBI’s enforcement gaps to TRAI’s turf war with the DoT, CCI’s Big Tech fines, and FSSAI’s food-labelling fight: how India’s six big sector regulators actually perform.

27 September 2026 · 23 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

Panchayati Raj: the 73rd Amendment

How the 73rd Amendment (1992) constitutionalised village democracy: the three tiers, the 29 subjects, women's reservation, the money-and-power gap, and PESA's tribal self-rule.

27 September 2026 · 21 min read