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Social Justice
National Policy for Children 2013: India's child-rights charter
India's 2013 child policy framework: twelve guiding principles, four key priority areas, the National Plan of Action 2016, and where implementation stands.
1 October 2026 · 15 min read
History
Money and Nationalism: The Capitalist Class in the Freedom Struggle
Mill owners who funded the Congress but feared the streets: FICCI 1927, the rupee and tariff grievances, constitutional methods, the Bombay Plan of 1944, and the permanent tension with labour and the left.
30 September 2026 · 11 min read
Disaster Management
Skies of Fury: Cyclones, Droughts, Heatwaves and Rare Winds
From cyclone formation and storm surges to slow-onset droughts, the Ahmedabad Heat Action Plan of 2013 and the rare derecho: the complete atmospheric-disaster module for GS-3.
29 September 2026 · 30 min read
Economy
The Planners: From Five-Year Plans to NITI Aayog, and the 1991 Turn
From Visvesvaraya's 1934 blueprint to the Five-Year Plans, the 1991 LPG reforms and NITI Aayog, the complete story of planning in India, with the plan-by-plan table UPSC loves.
28 September 2026 · 44 min read
Geography
The Economic Map of the World: Farms, Trade Blocs and the Chokepoints That Rule Trade
From shifting cultivation to plantation belts, trade blocs to the Strait of Malacca - how the world's farms, factories and shipping lanes fit together, and where India plugs in.
27 September 2026 · 33 min read
Geography
Why Industries Sit Where They Sit: Weber's Logic, Indian Steel and the Corridor Map
From Weber's least-cost triangle to the 4:2:1 recipe of Indian steel plants and the new industrial corridors, this is the complete industrial geography UPSC keeps testing.
27 September 2026 · 44 min read
Geography
The Shape of the World: Mountains, Plateaus, Plains and Deserts
Mountains, plateaus, plains and deserts are the planet's autobiography in landform. Each family has a birth story, a global address and an economic personality, and UPSC keeps asking about all three.
27 September 2026 · 41 min read
Post-Independence India
Twelve Plans, One Dream: India's Tryst with the Planned Economy, 1951-2017
Twelve plans, sixty-six years: how India tried to industrialise through five-year timetables - the Mahalanobis bet, the 1966 collapse, the 1991 pivot, and the final plan before NITI Aayog.
27 September 2026 · 44 min read
Post-Independence India
Nehru's Blueprint: How a Newborn Republic Built Itself, 1947-64
In 1947 experts expected India to collapse. By 1964 it was the world's largest democracy with steel plants, atomic research and a global voice. How the Nehru years built the Indian state - and what they got wrong.
27 September 2026 · 48 min read
Modern History
562 Thrones, One Flag: Patel and the Integration of Princely States
562 thrones, one flag: how Patel and V.P. Menon integrated the princely states, and why Junagadh, Hyderabad and Kashmir tested the plan.
27 September 2026 · 20 min read
Modern History
The Last Gamble for a United India: Cabinet Mission to the Mountbatten Plan
The Cabinet Mission's three-tier plan was the last chance at a united India. Why it collapsed, and how Mountbatten's 3rd June Plan replaced it.
27 September 2026 · 22 min read
Ancient History
The cities that planned their drains 4,000 years before modern plumbing
In 1921, a railway contractor's dig in Punjab unearthed a 4,500-year-old city with better drains than many modern towns. Inside the discovery, extent, and grid-planned genius of the Harappan world.
27 September 2026 · 23 min read
Polity
NITI Aayog, the Finance Commission and the New Federal Architecture
The new federal architecture: why NITI Aayog replaced the Planning Commission in 2015, how the Finance Commission divides tax revenue, and the GST Council's shared sovereignty.
27 September 2026 · 29 min read