2025-07-01T18:51:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
Written by: Umakant Sir (Civil Servant & Mentor) History repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce. Great empires were built by Men and are destroyed by Men. Men of strength, vision, and resolve build empires and Men of comfort, confusion, and compromise ruin it. History is replete with [...]
2025-07-01T13:44:06+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
Backdrop: The 2025 G7 summit in Alberta, Canada, is occurring amid global turbulence—wars in Ukraine and Gaza, rising tensions between Israel and Iran, and instability in the Indo-Pacific due to China’s maneuvers. While a US-China trade truce and India-Pakistan ceasefire exist, global geopolitics remain volatile. This aligns with Realist theories [...]
2025-06-13T14:54:51+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Environment, Society|
💧 A Nation Sinking in Its Own Waste Even after 75 years of independence, over 70% of Indian cities lack basic sewage and garbage disposal systems. Cities with billion-dollar valuations, skyscrapers, and “smart city” tags cannot move water off their streets during rains. Why? Because India doesn’t just have a [...]
2025-06-13T14:55:52+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
In a world where data is currency and digital tools are the new chalk, this is a crisis, not a statistic. Literacy ≠ Education: Time to Burn the Old Playbook 🎓 What is the soul of education? Is it just about literacy rates, skilling youth for jobs, or reducing unemployment? [...]
2025-06-13T15:13:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
What My Mother Taught Me About Surviving the AI Age When I think of my 67-year-old mother navigating Instagram like a seasoned archivist, I can’t help but smile. She doesn’t post for likes, followers, or viral trends. Her feed isn’t curated for the world—it’s her private vault of memories. With [...]
2025-06-13T14:04:17+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
🧾 Context Case: H. Vinoth sought a ‘No Caste, No Community’ certificate from the Tirupattur Tahsildar, which was denied citing lack of official empowerment. A single judge had upheld the denial in February 2024, despite appreciating the applicant’s intent. […]
2025-06-12T22:15:13+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
India ranked 131 out of 146 in Global Gender Gap Index 2025, drops two places With a parity score of just 64.1%, India is among the lowest-ranked countries in South Asia, according to WEF’s latest report. […]
2025-03-18T19:01:48+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography|
Migration is not only a geographic phenomenon, it is a human phenomenon. “History proves that migration has always been a force multiplier, enriching both migrants and host nations. Yet, in an era of rising walls, both physical and political, migration faces unprecedented scrutiny.” As the world builds walls, India must [...]
2024-12-01T14:42:48+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science|
Written by: Umakant Sir (Founder, Mentor and Civil Servant). Transforming one village at a time: In the remote village of Chiragpur, nestled amidst rolling hills, Ramesh, a farmer, faced a challenge that had plagued his ancestors for generations—access to basic services. The nearest bank was 30 kilometers away, official documents [...]
2024-11-14T19:50:24+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
Critical minerals are considered to be the ‘new oil’, with the potential to drive the high-technology industrial revolution. However, the concentration of critical mineral supply chains along the downstream, middle, and upstream segments in specific states, such as China, has created security challenges for other countries; this is true for [...]
