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Private sector case studies: worked answers for corporate dilemmas

Eight fully worked private-sector case studies for GS-4: CSR fund misuse, insider trading, toxic-discharge whistleblowing, layoffs, dual quality standards, related-party contracts, community displacement and health-data privacy, each with stakeholders, options and a recommended course of action.

30 September 2026 · 45 min read

GS-4

Public sector case studies: worked answers for administration dilemmas

Eleven worked case studies for GS-4: bribery pressure, whistleblowing, political interference, disaster triage, land acquisition, tender rigging, corrupt subordinates, communal fault lines and RTI transparency, each resolved step by step.

30 September 2026 · 51 min read

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Ethics in the private sector: the moral dilemmas behind corporate case studies

Private-sector ethics for GS-4: shareholder vs stakeholder lenses, fiduciary duty, principal-agent problems, whistleblowing, conflicts of interest, and four worked corporate mini-dilemmas.

30 September 2026 · 22 min read

Agriculture

Food Processing: India's Sunrise Sector

Scope, significance and constraints of food processing, the upstream-downstream framework, PMKSY, PMFME and PLI, the AMUL template and the KERA coconut model.

29 September 2026 · 18 min read

Agriculture

Economics of Animal Rearing: Livestock, Dairy, Fisheries and Poultry

From the living bank and the 30 per cent agri-GVA share to dairy leadership, the sunrise fisheries sector, poultry's efficiency and the livestock-climate two-way street.

29 September 2026 · 29 min read

Economy

The Final Sheet: Master Revision for the Indian Economy

The last-week revision sheet: sector shares, the macro dashboard, thresholds, committees, mnemonics and PYQ trend analysis for the whole Indian Economy library.

28 September 2026 · 31 min read

Economy

The Rupee's World Tour: Balance of Payments, Trade and Foreign Capital, Explained

From a $283 billion trade deficit to $135 billion in remittances, India's external account tells the story of an economy plugged into the world. BoP, CAD, FDI, the rupee and the WTO, decoded for GS-3.

28 September 2026 · 59 min read

Economy

The Sector That Skipped the Queue: India's Services Story

55% of GDP, 30% of jobs: why India leapfrogged from farms to services, what IT, tourism and fintech earn the country, and the paradox that remains.

28 September 2026 · 31 min read

Economy

Farming by the Numbers: MSP, Credit, PDS and the Allied-Sector Engine

1.08-hectare holdings, 22 MSP crops, 7.75 crore Kisan Credit Cards, 81 crore NFSA beneficiaries, the economics of Indian agriculture, minus the history.

28 September 2026 · 75 min read

Economy

Growth Is Not Development: Reading the Indian Economy Right

GDP makes headlines; development changes lives. A primer on India's sectoral structure, the growth-vs-development distinction UPSC loves, and the 1991 reforms that rebuilt the economy.

28 September 2026 · 34 min read

Geography

What Lies Beneath: India's Minerals and Energy Map

From Odisha's iron-ore valleys to Rajasthan's solar parks to Reasi's lithium: India's mineral map, mining sector, critical minerals and the full energy mix - coal to green hydrogen.

27 September 2026 · 20 min read

GS-4

Corporate governance: ethics beyond the public sector

Ethics beyond the public sector: what corporate governance is, its ethical foundations from trusteeship to ESG, India's governance failures, and the moral responsibilities of business.

27 September 2026 · 40 min read

Governance

New frontiers: online gaming, sports governance and children online

Real-money gaming, sports federations and children’s social media use are sectors the Indian state never governed before. How it is learning to regulate them, and the pattern that unites the attempts.

27 September 2026 · 21 min read

Governance

How welfare reaches citizens: CSS vs central sector schemes and DBT

Centrally sponsored schemes share costs with states; central sector schemes are the Centre’s own. How the two architectures differ, how the CSS were rationalised, and how DBT changed the plumbing.

27 September 2026 · 23 min read

Governance

NGOs and civil society: partners, watchdogs and the FCRA debate

Over 34 lakh registered NGOs make India’s civil society among the world’s largest. What the sector does, why the FCRA 2020 amendments triggered a reckoning, and the 2025 question: non-state actor or anti-state actor?

27 September 2026 · 28 min read

Governance

Sector regulators up close: SEBI, TRAI, CCI, IRDAI, PFRDA and FSSAI

From SEBI’s enforcement gaps to TRAI’s turf war with the DoT, CCI’s Big Tech fines, and FSSAI’s food-labelling fight: how India’s six big sector regulators actually perform.

27 September 2026 · 23 min read