2026-04-16T18:12:42+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
A high-stakes three-day special sitting of the Indian Parliament is currently underway, running from April 16 to April 18, 2026. The government has introduced three major bills during this session: Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026: Aims to implement 33% reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies starting [...]
2026-04-13T19:48:02+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Reflections|
Technology & History (Written by: Umakant Sir) Flattery in the Age of AI: Flattery has ruined more empires that the wars ever could. Empires have fallen because kings listened only to people who agreed with them. Mughal courts crumbled. Stalin’s generals told him what he wanted to hear. Hitler’s inner [...]
2026-04-12T20:41:39+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: History|
History & Ideas The Forgotten Superpower: How Ancient India Shaped the World — and Why We Were Made to Forget The numbers we use to do every calculation on every computer in the world were invented in India. The religion practiced by over half of Asia spread from India. The [...]
2026-04-11T13:07:51+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Technology & Policy · Banning Isn’t the Answer. But What Is? The Case for Holding Platforms Accountable for What They Build India’s state governments — from Karnataka to Punjab — are reaching for social media bans to protect children. The impulse is understandable. The solution is insufficient. The real conversation [...]
2026-04-09T14:32:31+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
The Last Choice: Should Every Indian Have the Right to Dignified Death? A man lay still in a Delhi hospital bed for 12 years. His parents sat beside him, waiting for a system that didn't quite know what to do with them. Harish Rana was 32 years old when he [...]
2026-04-06T17:16:27+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Health & Society No Road, No Map, But No Child Left Behind: The Five-Hour River Journey to Deliver Healthcare in Tripura Deep inside Tripura's Atharamura mountains, a tiny hamlet called Kalicharan Para has no road connecting it to the world. Getting there means a five-hour boat ride through rough waters [...]
2026-04-04T17:14:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment|
The Tree That Ate Tamil Nadu In the late nineteenth century, a colonial administrator introduced Prosopis juliflora to India. Its credentials seemed miraculous — drought-resistant, soil-stabilizing, and a ready source of firewood for the poor. Tamil Nadu named it Seemai Karuvelam. Seemai means “foreign,” a quiet acknowledgment of its origins. [...]
2026-04-03T19:24:40+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy|
Technology & Society Lights, Camera, Unemployment: The Rise and Fall of India’s YouTube Village — and What Came After A village in Chhattisgarh became the symbol of rural India’s digital dream. Then the views fell, the studio emptied, and the panchayat moved in. The story of Tulsi — and the [...]
2026-04-02T19:08:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Ethics|
Psychology & Ethics · March 2026 Emotional Intelligence: Skill Nobody Taught You That Shapes Everything Else Emotional intelligence has been called the “it factor” of success, the secret ingredient behind great leaders, great relationships, and better decisions. It has also been badly explained for decades. Here is a clearer account [...]
2026-03-30T17:34:50+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
Global Impact · March 2026 No Butter Chicken, Shorter Showers, Pricier Homes: How the Iran War Is Hitting Everyone, Everywhere A war in the Middle East sounds like someone else’s problem — until the cooking gas runs out, the airfare doubles, the cancer drug doesn’t arrive, and a gas line [...]
