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Social Justice

Food fortification in India: the +F logo, fortified rice and the anaemia debate

Adding iron, folic acid and vitamins to rice, flour, salt, milk and oil: how India's food fortification programme works, what the +F logo means, and why universal iron fortification is debated.

29 September 2026 · 24 min read

Geography

Earth's Living Skin: World Soils and the Vegetation They Grow

Why the world's blackest soils lie under grasslands, why deserts grow salty earth, and how vegetation maps climate from equator to tundra. World soils and biomes for UPSC Geography.

27 September 2026 · 16 min read

Geography

The World Ocean: Relief, Salt, Currents, Tides and Ice

The ocean is Earth's biggest climate machine: its floor, its salt, its currents, its tides and its ice. A complete tour of oceanography - from the Mariana Trench to the Grand Banks fisheries - for UPSC Geography.

27 September 2026 · 33 min read

Modern History

240 Miles to the Sea: How Salt Broke an Empire's Law

A 61-year-old man walked 240 miles to the sea to pick up a fistful of salt - and turned it into the most potent weapon the Raj had ever faced. How the Dandi March made civil disobedience a national language.

27 September 2026 · 25 min read