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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

CSAT

Partnership for CSAT: Capital, Time and Profit Sharing

Master Partnership for CSAT Paper II: the capital-time rule, compound partnerships, working-partner commission, missing capital or time, ratio puzzles and PYQs.

29 September 2026 · 11 min read

International Relations

WTO ministerial conferences: MC12, MC13 and India's negotiating positions

MC12's Geneva Package and MC13's Abu Dhabi stalemate: fisheries subsidies, the TRIPS vaccine decision, food-security red lines, the e-commerce moratorium, and India's negotiating positions at the WTO's top forum.

29 September 2026 · 20 min read

Science & Tech

Silicon Dreams: Semiconductors and ISM 2.0

Chips power everything from phones to missiles, yet almost none are made in India. The India Semiconductor Mission, now in its deeper 2.0 phase, is the country's bid to join the global chip order.

28 September 2026 · 39 min read

Science & Tech

The Small Revolution: Nanotechnology

Gold that turns red at a billionth of a metre: what nanotechnology is, India's Nano Mission, its uses in medicine, chips, energy and farming, and the risks of the very small.

28 September 2026 · 45 min read

Indian Society

Family and marriage in India: the joint household meets the modern couple

From the joint family life cycle to live-in relationships and same-sex marriage, how kinship, marriage and family are being rewritten in India.

27 September 2026 · 42 min read

GS-4

Ethics and the human interface: what ethics means for human action

The foundation piece of the GS-4 series: the essence of ethics, its inner and outer determinants, the three dimensions of ethical thought, and ethics in private versus public relationships.

27 September 2026 · 40 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

International Relations

Functional diplomacy: energy, technology and soft power

Beyond summits and treaties, Indian diplomacy runs on oil contracts, chip partnerships and yoga mats. How energy security, technology geopolitics and soft power became the working tools of foreign policy.

27 September 2026 · 26 min read

International Relations

The WTO: trade multilateralism in crisis

The referee of world trade has lost its whistle: the Appellate Body is paralysed, the Doha Round is stalled, and protectionism is back. Where India stands on food security, TRIPS and digital trade.

27 September 2026 · 18 min read

Governance

The All-India Services: one service, many masters

Recruited by the Centre, posted in the states, recalled to Delhi: the IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service sit at the fault line of Indian federalism. Article 312, the cadre system, central deputation and the Centre-state tussle.

27 September 2026 · 19 min read

Polity

Doctrine Decoder: pith and substance, colourable legislation, eclipse and more

Eight constitutional doctrines decoded: pith and substance, colourable legislation, eclipse, severability, territorial nexus, repugnancy, occupied field and harmonious construction.

27 September 2026 · 28 min read