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 [...]
2024-11-09T20:41:48+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
The October BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia marked a pivotal moment in the bloc’s evolution, showcasing key innovations, expanded energy trade, and greater global influence. The summit formally welcomed the new BRICS members: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Notably, Argentina, expected to join, opted out in late [...]
2024-09-13T14:32:36+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
The roots of the two-state solution go back to the 1930s of the British-ruled Palestine. […]
2024-08-18T13:26:20+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: FP & IR|
Authored by: Umakant Sir (Founder, Mentor and Civil Servant) Who does not like a good conspiracy? We all have our own little conspiracy theories that we believe in contradiction to facts even. And that is understandable because that is a pure “Human Psychological Error”. Psychologists call it “cognitive dissonance” (When [...]
