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International Relations
The WHO: guardian of global health
The World Health Organization directs global health policy for 194 member states. This article covers its 1948 founding, mandate, PHEIC mechanism, COVID-19 record, the 2025 Pandemic Agreement, US withdrawal, and India's deep partnership.
30 September 2026 · 15 min read
International Relations
NATO: the Atlantic alliance at seventy-six
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, founded in 1949, is the world's most powerful military alliance. This article covers its treaty, Article 5, enlargement to 32 members, the 2025 Hague summit's 5 per cent spending pledge, and what it means for India.
30 September 2026 · 15 min read
International Relations
India-Iran relations: Chabahar, energy and the sanctions tightrope
Civilizational ties meet hard geopolitics: the JCPOA stalemate, Chabahar Port, INSTC and Farzad B explain why Iran is the relationship where India’s strategic autonomy is tested most visibly.
30 September 2026 · 10 min read
History
Beyond the Congress: Jana Sangh, Socialists, Liberals, Swatantra and the Communists Who Ran Kerala
The parties outside the Congress umbrella: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1951), the Socialist breakaway (1948), the Liberal Federation of Sapru, the Swatantra Party as 1967's largest opposition, Kerala's first Communist government (1957) and the 1969 bank nationalization.
30 September 2026 · 26 min read
Indian Society
Glocal India: How Globalisation Rewired Society Without Erasing It
Three decades after 1991: McAloo Tikki, Hinglish and 197 endangered languages. UPSC keeps asking whether globalisation threatens Indian pluralism, this article gives you the theories, the data, and the dialectical answer.
27 September 2026 · 38 min read
Indian Society
The Unfinished Promise: Urbanisation as India's Growth Engine
Cities hold barely a third of India's people yet produce close to 70% of its GDP, engines governed as burdens. Urbanisation, from slums to smart cities, in full GS-1 depth.
27 September 2026 · 23 min read
World History
Decolonization: How Empires Unraveled Across Asia and Africa
From Ghana's 1957 breakthrough to Algeria's brutal eight-year war and the Suez crisis that buried Britain's superpower pretensions, the forces, the process, and the wounds of empire's end.
27 September 2026 · 15 min read
Ancient History
The cities that planned their drains 4,000 years before modern plumbing
In 1921, a railway contractor's dig in Punjab unearthed a 4,500-year-old city with better drains than many modern towns. Inside the discovery, extent, and grid-planned genius of the Harappan world.
27 September 2026 · 23 min read