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International Relations
India-UAE relations: the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
From oil buyer to strategic partner: the 2022 CEPA, $100 billion trade, INR-Dirham settlement and 4.3 million Indians who make the UAE India’s most consequential Gulf relationship.
30 September 2026 · 9 min read
History
The Men Who Dug Up India's Past: Rea, Sewell, Burgess, Elliot and the Scholars of the Raj
Colonial-era archaeologists and historians and their contributions: Alexander Rea at Adichanallur, Longhurst at Hampi, Sewell's Forgotten Empire, Burgess and the Indian Antiquary, Elliot's historians; plus Madanapalle and Tagore, and Bankimchandra's novels.
30 September 2026 · 26 min read
History
The Atlas of Indian History: Chandraketugarh, Inamgaon, Dwarasamudra and the Sites UPSC Keeps Asking About
An atlas-style tour of the archaeological sites, medieval states and pilgrimage geography that appear in UPSC papers: Chandraketugarh, Inamgaon, Bhilsa, Dwarasamudra, Bodhgaya, Khajuraho, Shirdi, Nashik, Champaka, Durgara, Kuluta and the hill ranges of India's pilgrim towns.
30 September 2026 · 28 min read
Disaster Management
From Yokohama to Sendai: Global Disaster Frameworks
The global journey of disaster risk reduction: IDNDR, the Yokohama Strategy, the Hyogo Framework, and the Sendai Framework's four priorities and seven targets, with the Sendai-vs-Hyogo table, SDG synergy, UNDRR, WHO, CDRI and the G20 DRR Working Group.
29 September 2026 · 31 min read
Environment
India's Climate Pledge: Targets, Carbon Markets and Action
India met its 50% non-fossil capacity target five years early and is building a domestic carbon market. NDCs, Panchamrit, the CCTS, Green Credits, and the CBAM challenge.
28 September 2026 · 40 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
Modern History
From Pietermaritzburg to Champaran: Gandhi's Satyagraha Laboratory
Twenty-one years in South Africa invented satyagraha; three local experiments - Champaran, Ahmedabad, Kheda - turned Gandhi from a returned lawyer into the leader of India's masses.
27 September 2026 · 36 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
Medieval History
City of Victory: How Vijayanagara Became Medieval South India's Greatest Empire
In 1336, two brothers founded a city on the Tungabhadra that would defy the Delhi Sultanate for 300 years. Under Krishnadevaraya it became the richest city in India, until one catastrophic battle in 1565 reduced it to the haunting ruins of Hampi.
27 September 2026 · 38 min read
Ancient History
The Emperor Who Weaponised Morality: Ashoka's Dhamma and His Talking Rocks
After the bloodbath of Kalinga, Emperor Ashoka stopped conquering land and started conquering minds. His rock and pillar edicts are UPSC's favourite window into ancient Indian statecraft.
27 September 2026 · 22 min read
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Moral thinkers of the world: the great ethical frameworks
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Bentham and Mill, Rawls, Mandela and others: the world's moral thinkers compressed into deontology, utilitarianism and virtue ethics as working tools for administrators.
27 September 2026 · 54 min read
International Relations
India-Sri Lanka: the China factor in the island neighbourhood
Thirty kilometres and three millennia of ties: the $4 billion 2022 lifeline, Operation Sagar Bandhu, Hambantota and the Tamil file.
27 September 2026 · 15 min read