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International Relations
WTO ministerial conferences: MC12, MC13 and India's negotiating positions
MC12's Geneva Package and MC13's Abu Dhabi stalemate: fisheries subsidies, the TRIPS vaccine decision, food-security red lines, the e-commerce moratorium, and India's negotiating positions at the WTO's top forum.
29 September 2026 · 20 min read
Polity
Law Officers of India: Attorney General, Solicitor General and Advocate General
The Attorney General under Article 76, the Solicitor General and Additional Solicitors General under the 1987 Rules, and the Advocate General under Article 165: who India's law officers are, what they do, and how they differ from the Law Minister.
29 September 2026 · 20 min read
Science & Tech
Rewriting Life: Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
From reading DNA to rewriting it: genome sequencing, the Genome India Project, CRISPR, gene therapy and India's indigenous CAR-T breakthrough, with the BioE3 policy framing the bioeconomy push.
28 September 2026 · 68 min read
Environment
What We Throw Away: Waste Management in India
India generates 170,000 tonnes of solid waste daily. This primer covers the waste streams, the SWM Rules 2026, plastic and e-waste regulation, EPR, and the informal workers who recycle India.
28 September 2026 · 45 min read
Modern History
The men who ruled India: Governor-Generals and Viceroys, and the reforms prelims loves to match
From Warren Hastings to Mountbatten: who ruled India, when, and which reform belongs to whom. The viceroy-reform match-list is prelims' favourite format; this article is its home.
28 September 2026 · 35 min read
Geography
When the Earth Moves: Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis
Wegener's drifting continents became plate tectonics - the one theory behind earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains and tsunamis. The most mains-relevant chapter of physical geography, with exam-grade examples.
27 September 2026 · 24 min read
World History
Carving the World: Colonialism and the New Imperialism
In one generation, Africa went from 10% to nearly 100% under European rule. The causes, methods, and consequences of the New Imperialism, UPSC GS-1 notes on colonialism and empire.
27 September 2026 · 13 min read
Modern History
Curzon's Partition, Tilak's Thunder: How Bengal Broke the Moderate Mould
Curzon cut Bengal in two in 1905 to weaken nationalism - and radicalised a generation instead. Lal-Bal-Pal rose, the Congress split at Surat in 1907, and polite petitioning died.
27 September 2026 · 36 min read
Medieval History
The Slave Kings: How Aibak, Iltutmish, Razia and Balban Built the Delhi Sultanate
In 1206, a slave-general with no royal blood founded India's first Islamic empire from Delhi. Within sixty years, his successors, a consolidator, a queen who defied her nobles, and an iron-fisted king who called himself God's Shadow, had built a state that would rule for three centuries.
27 September 2026 · 23 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