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History
Where India went to study: Takshashila, Nalanda and the ancient universities
Residential campuses, entrance by debate, students from China to Central Asia: how Takshashila, Nalanda, Vikramashila and Valabhi made India the world's classroom.
30 September 2026 · 8 min read
International Relations
India-ASEAN relations: Act East in Southeast Asia
From Look East (1991) to Act East (2014): $122 billion trade, the first ASEAN-India maritime exercise, the RCEP exit, connectivity corridors and the Indonesia anchor.
30 September 2026 · 9 min read
International Relations
India-Germany relations: Europe’s anchor in Asia
From 1951 diplomatic ties to Berlin’s Focus on India strategy: the Green and Sustainable Development Partnership, Project 75I, skilled-migration bridges and the CBAM friction.
30 September 2026 · 7 min read
International Relations
India-Central Asia: the extended neighbourhood
Five republics, one connectivity veto: uranium and gas stakes, Chabahar and INSTC corridors, the SCO anchor, and the New Great Game India must navigate.
28 September 2026 · 11 min read
World History
Decolonization: How Empires Unraveled Across Asia and Africa
From Ghana's 1957 breakthrough to Algeria's brutal eight-year war and the Suez crisis that buried Britain's superpower pretensions, the forces, the process, and the wounds of empire's end.
27 September 2026 · 15 min read
World History
1917: The Year Russia Rewrote the Rules of Power
In eight months, Russia buried a 300-year monarchy and birthed the world's first socialist state. The causes, the two revolutions of 1917, and why the shockwaves reached all the way to India.
27 September 2026 · 15 min read
Post-Independence India
Three Wars, One Decade: 1962, 1965 and 1971
Three wars in one decade: 1962 shattered an illusion, 1965 redeemed an army, 1971 redrew the map of South Asia. Causes, course, outcomes and the lessons UPSC loves to ask.
27 September 2026 · 48 min read
Medieval History
1526: How Babur's Cannons, Humayun's Exile and Akbar's Genius Built the Mughal Empire
A 12-year-old king of a tiny Central Asian valley lost everything, then conquered India with gunpowder and daring. His son lost the empire and won it back; his grandson Sher Shah rebuilt it in five years; and his great-grandson Akbar turned conquest into a civilisation. Mughal origins, explained.
27 September 2026 · 47 min read
Medieval History
The Deccan's Other Empire: Bahmani Sultans, Warring Successors and the Road to Talikota
While Vijayanagara rose on the Tungabhadra's south bank, a rival empire rose on the north: the Bahmani kingdom, born from a revolt against Delhi in 1347. Its story is one of Persian splendour, bloody faction fights, and five successor states that finally destroyed Vijayanagara at Talikota.
27 September 2026 · 33 min read
Ancient History
The Greeks, Scythians and Nomads Who Became Indian: Post-Mauryan Kingdoms
Greeks, Scythians and Central Asian nomads crossed the Hindu Kush and became Indian, giving India its first gold coins, its first human Buddha images, and the Silk Road.
27 September 2026 · 27 min read
Ancient History
From emperor's mission to empty monasteries: Buddhism's 1,700-year Indian journey
Four councils, an emperor's missionaries, and stupas across Asia, then a thousand-year fade in its homeland. The complete arc of Buddhism in India, from Sarnath to Nalanda.
27 September 2026 · 28 min read
International Relations
SAARC: the stalled regional project
Founded in 1985 with big promises, frozen since 2014: why the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation stalled, what it still does, and whether revival is possible.
27 September 2026 · 16 min read
International Relations
The SCO: India's Eurasian balancing act
Why India joined a China-led Eurasian security forum in 2017, what it gains from RATS, Central Asia access and the diplomatic platform, and where China and Pakistan limit the payoff.
27 September 2026 · 16 min read
International Relations
India's West Asia policy: de-hyphenation, IMEC and energy security
How India learned to deal with Israel and Palestine, Iran and the Gulf monarchies on separate tracks, and why IMEC and energy diversification now sit at the centre of its West Asia strategy.
27 September 2026 · 18 min read
International Relations
India-Russia: the tested friendship in a changing order
From Soviet-era defence dependence to discounted crude and a $68-billion trade relationship: how India sustains its oldest strategic partnership while deepening ties with the West.
27 September 2026 · 23 min read
International Relations
India-China: competition, the border, and managing the dragon
A 3,488-km disputed border, a $100-billion-plus trade deficit and a rivalry that shapes Asia: how India manages competition with China across the LAC, the economy, water and the neighbourhood.
27 September 2026 · 27 min read
Polity
Elections in India: the Commission, the law and the 2025 flashpoints
How India runs the world's largest elections: the Commission's independence, the controversial 2023 appointments law, and 2025's SIR battle and ECINET digitisation.
27 September 2026 · 36 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