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Internal Security
Fractured Frontiers: North-East Insurgency and Separatism
State-wise histories of North-East insurgency, the Chicken's Neck, a decade of peace accords, AFSPA's calibrated rollback, and the Khalistan movement's rise, measures and implications.
29 September 2026 · 35 min read
Economy
Whose Growth Is It Anyway? Inclusive Growth, SDGs and Sustainability
Is India's growth shared? Theories of inclusive growth, the measurement toolkit (MPI, Gini, HDI, IHDI), the poverty report card, and the sustainability question, with 2025 data.
28 September 2026 · 43 min read
Economy
Inflation: Why Prices Rise and How India Fights Back
Why prices rise, how India measures it, and the fightback toolkit. Demand-pull vs cost-push, CPI vs WPI, food inflation's structural roots, and who wins when prices climb.
28 September 2026 · 37 min read
Economy
GDP, Decoded: How India Measures National Income
GDP, GNP, NNP, GVA, decoded. How India measures national income, the three estimation methods, the 2015 methodology overhaul, and what GDP still cannot see.
28 September 2026 · 37 min read
Indian Society
The Measurement Problem: Poverty, Deprivation and Development
Extreme poverty fell 27.1% to 5.3% by the World Bank's 2025 count, yet 57% of women are anaemic and human development lags growth. Why poverty persists in a rising India, in full GS-1 depth.
27 September 2026 · 28 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
Social Justice
Poverty in India: how we count the poor
From calorie norms to the Multidimensional Poverty Index: how India has defined and measured poverty, why the estimates differ, and why the numbers shape policy.
27 September 2026 · 39 min read