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International Relations
India-Oman relations: the Hormuz anchor
Seventy years of maritime trust: the 2008 Strategic Partnership, Duqm Port access, tri-service exercises and why Oman guards India’s Hormuz lifeline.
30 September 2026 · 8 min read
Polity
Delhi Governance: Article 239AA and the National Capital Territory
Why the capital is neither a full state nor a full Union Territory: the 69th Amendment, the excluded subjects, the Lieutenant Governor, and the services battle that produced the 2023 amendments.
30 September 2026 · 7 min read
Polity
UPSC at 100: A Century of Meritocracy and Inclusion
On 1 October 2026 the Union Public Service Commission completes 100 years. From the 1855 ICS examination in London to Articles 315 to 323 of the Constitution, and from 42,727 applicants in 1950-51 to over 45 lakh at peak: the story of India's merit machine and its long walk toward inclusion.
30 September 2026 · 18 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
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Work culture, service delivery and the ethics of public funds
The ethics of the everyday office: work culture in the civil services, quality of service delivery as a moral duty, and public funds held as a public trust.
27 September 2026 · 34 min read
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Probity in governance: the philosophical foundations
The philosophical foundations of probity: the concept of public service, duty-based and trusteeship theories, the Nolan principles, and the code of ethics versus code of conduct distinction.
27 September 2026 · 42 min read
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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
Governance
The All-India Services: one service, many masters
Recruited by the Centre, posted in the states, recalled to Delhi: the IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service sit at the fault line of Indian federalism. Article 312, the cadre system, central deputation and the Centre-state tussle.
27 September 2026 · 19 min read
Governance
Prisons and custodial justice: reforming India’s jails
India’s prisons run at 131 per cent capacity with three-fourths of inmates still awaiting trial. The overcrowding crisis, the undertrial tragedy, the D.K. Basu safeguards and the Model Prisons and Correctional Services Act, 2023.
27 September 2026 · 17 min read
Governance
Reforming the steel frame: lateral entry, Mission Karmayogi and the ARC reports
The steel frame creaks under politicisation, the transfer raj and generalism. The committee lineage from the First ARC to the Baswan Committee, the lateral entry debate, and Mission Karmayogi’s attempt to turn karmacharis into karmayogis.
27 September 2026 · 34 min read
Governance
Civil services in a democracy: the constitutional design
Why the Constitution built a permanent steel frame behind the elected government: the Part XIV design of Articles 308 to 323, what civil services actually do in a democracy, and the UPSC as watchdog of the merit system.
27 September 2026 · 26 min read
Governance
Social audit and grievance redressal: auditing power from below
From the MKSS Jan Sunwais to MGNREGA’s statutory audits and Meghalaya’s 2017 law, plus CPGRAMS and right-to-public-services laws: how citizens audit power from below.
27 September 2026 · 23 min read
Polity
High Courts and the subordinate judiciary: India's real constitutional courts
How High Courts are staffed and why their writ power is wider than the Supreme Court's, plus the subordinate judiciary, Gram Nyayalayas, Lok Adalats and the long-pending All India Judicial Service.
27 September 2026 · 33 min read