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Ancient History

Four truths and an eight-lane road out of suffering: the Buddha's teaching

Four truths, an eightfold path, and no gods required. The Buddha's teaching, distilled to exactly what UPSC asks, from the four sights to the three vehicles.

27 September 2026 · 29 min read

GS-4

Corruption: causes, consequences and the fight against it

The pathology of corruption: its petty, grand and political forms, the layered causes behind it, what it costs society, and the ethical and institutional fight against it.

27 September 2026 · 40 min read

GS-4

Aptitude and the foundational values of the civil services

Aptitude versus attitude, then the eight foundational values of a civil servant: integrity, impartiality, non-partisanship, objectivity, dedication, empathy, tolerance and compassion.

27 September 2026 · 45 min read

Polity

Tribunals in India: Articles 323A and 323B explained

Articles 323A and 323B, the cases that tamed tribunals from Sampath Kumar to Rojer Mathew, a field guide to the major tribunals, and the 2021 rationalisation.

27 September 2026 · 32 min read

Polity

Article 21 in 2025: the right that keeps growing

Digital access, motorable roads, footpaths, dignity in arrest, euthanasia, narco-tests and personality rights: how twenty-seven words became the Constitution's fastest-growing right in 2025.

27 September 2026 · 10 min read