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History
Vitasta to Eripatti: The River Names, Tribal Languages and Land Terms UPSC Loves to Test
Ancient river names and their modern equivalents, the tribal languages Halbi Ho and Kui, Chola land-grant terms like Eripatti, and the Banjaras: the term-definition pairs that recur in UPSC prelims, decoded in tables.
30 September 2026 · 27 min read
Disaster Management
Disaster Basics: Hazards, Risk and the Management Cycle
From the UNDRR definition of a disaster to the four ingredients of risk, the five dimensions of vulnerability and the full disaster management cycle: the complete conceptual foundation of the subject, with a 25-term mains vocabulary bank.
29 September 2026 · 38 min read
Post-Independence India
The Long Walk Home: Partition's Refugees and the Remaking of India
At midnight on 15 August 1947 India woke to freedom, but for over seven million people, freedom arrived as a refugee column. This is the story of the camps, the colonies, and the laws that rebuilt their lives.
27 September 2026 · 21 min read
Modern History
From Pietermaritzburg to Champaran: Gandhi's Satyagraha Laboratory
Twenty-one years in South Africa invented satyagraha; three local experiments - Champaran, Ahmedabad, Kheda - turned Gandhi from a returned lawyer into the leader of India's masses.
27 September 2026 · 36 min read
GS-4
Ethics and the human interface: what ethics means for human action
The foundation piece of the GS-4 series: the essence of ethics, its inner and outer determinants, the three dimensions of ethical thought, and ethics in private versus public relationships.
27 September 2026 · 40 min read
Polity
Two houses, one Parliament: Lok Sabha vs Rajya Sabha, sessions and devices
Lok Sabha versus Rajya Sabha: composition, terms, sessions, presiding officers, and the daily devices, Question Hour to no-confidence motions, through which Parliament works.
27 September 2026 · 34 min read