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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-South Korea relations: the Special Strategic Partnership
Korea’s technology meets India’s scale: the 2015 Special Strategic Partnership, the 2009 CEPA under upgrade, K-9 Vajra co-production and the trade deficit that defines the agenda.
30 September 2026 · 8 min read
International Relations
India-UAE relations: the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
From oil buyer to strategic partner: the 2022 CEPA, $100 billion trade, INR-Dirham settlement and 4.3 million Indians who make the UAE India’s most consequential Gulf relationship.
30 September 2026 · 9 min read
International Relations
India-Africa relations: the Global South partnership
From anti-colonial solidarity to the AU's G20 seat: trade above $100 billion, Lines of Credit, critical minerals, maritime security, and the 54 votes that decide UNSC reform.
28 September 2026 · 13 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
Geography
The Economic Map of the World: Farms, Trade Blocs and the Chokepoints That Rule Trade
From shifting cultivation to plantation belts, trade blocs to the Strait of Malacca - how the world's farms, factories and shipping lanes fit together, and where India plugs in.
27 September 2026 · 33 min read
Modern History
Red Flags in the Mills: Workers, Communists and Socialists
AITUC, the Meerut trial, the Tashkent communists and the Congress Socialists, the left flank that made the freedom struggle about bread as well as flags.
27 September 2026 · 22 min read
Modern History
From traders to rulers: how the Company built its government machine (1773-1857)
Between 1773 and 1857 the Company stopped being a business and became a government, with Acts of Parliament, a steel-frame bureaucracy, Cornwallis's courts and the thana-daroga police. How the machine was built.
27 September 2026 · 28 min read
Modern History
First in, last out: how four European powers fought over India, and why only Britain won
Four European powers fought for India's coasts, the Portuguese arrived first and left last, the Dutch chose trade over empire, the French nearly won. Why only Britain survived the race.
27 September 2026 · 23 min read
Medieval History
The Southern Powerhouses: Cheras, Hoysalas, Kakatiyas and the Yadavas of Devagiri
While Delhi was still a Tomar town, the Deccan and the far south were ruled by dynasties UPSC loves to test: the Cheras who guarded the spice trade, the Hoysalas who carved soapstone into lace, the Kakatiyas ruled by a warrior queen, and the Yadavas whose capital became Tughlaq's dream.
27 September 2026 · 34 min read
Ancient History
Poets, Pearls and Pepper: The Sangam Age
Pepper, pearls and love poetry: the Sangam Age gave Tamilakam three crowned kings, 450 poets, and a trade surplus with Rome, but can poems be history?
27 September 2026 · 35 min read
Ancient History
The traders who sold cotton to Mesopotamia, and the mystery of their disappearance
They grew the world's first cotton, sold it to Mesopotamia, standardized their weights, and then their cities quietly emptied around 1900 BCE. How the Harappans lived, traded, and vanished.
27 September 2026 · 19 min read
International Relations
The WTO: trade multilateralism in crisis
The referee of world trade has lost its whistle: the Appellate Body is paralysed, the Doha Round is stalled, and protectionism is back. Where India stands on food security, TRIPS and digital trade.
27 September 2026 · 18 min read
International Relations
India-Australia: from ECTA to critical minerals
How India and Australia moved from Cold War distance to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership built on the 2022 trade deal, critical minerals, defence interoperability and a million-strong diaspora.
27 September 2026 · 17 min read
International Relations
India-UK: CETA, Vision 2035 and the living bridge
The 2025 Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement reset the economic relationship, Vision 2035 set the decade's agenda, and 1.8 million Indian-origin Britons form the living bridge. The frictions, from Khalistan to extradition, remain.
27 September 2026 · 12 min read
International Relations
India-EU: trade, technology and the FTA endgame
Six decades from the EEC to the Trade and Technology Council: why the EU is India's largest goods-trade partner, what the FTA endgame hinges on, and where CBAM and strategic autonomy collide.
27 September 2026 · 20 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
Governance
Pressure groups, donors and philanthropies: who lobbies the Indian state
Business associations, trade unions, farmer lobbies, donor agencies and charitable trusts all pull the state in different directions. How Indian pressure groups work, and why their regulation is so thin.
27 September 2026 · 25 min read
Polity
Inter-State Relations: Water Disputes, Councils and Zones
How states settle fights with each other: Article 262 river tribunals, the Cauvery story, the lapsed 2019 reform, the Inter-State Council, zonal councils, and free trade under Articles 301 to 307.
27 September 2026 · 31 min read