2026-03-29T13:49:43+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Economy & Society · March 2026 The Degree and the Dead End: Why India’s Most Educated Generation Is Also Its Most Unemployed India has just produced the largest generation of educated young people in its history. Nearly 40 percent of them cannot find a job. A landmark new report from [...]
2026-03-28T13:55:31+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Demographics & Society · March 2026 From Too Many to Too Few: How India Quietly Stopped Worrying About Its Population — and Started Worrying About Something Else For decades, India was told its greatest threat was too many people. Now its fertility rate has dropped below the level needed to [...]
2026-02-03T17:06:22+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Life has no meaning, purpose or value – Nihilism If you’ve been online lately, you’ve probably seen the Nihilist Penguin. It’s a small, tired-looking penguin paired with captions like “Nothing matters” or “Why bother?” There’s no joke setup, no twist—just blunt honesty. […]
2025-12-23T20:21:36+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Winter is coming – and it is DEMOGRAPHIC !!! For most of their existence, hominids lived much like other animals. Over hundreds of thousands of years, their numbers were shaped by natural selection, with high birth rates matched by equally high death rates. […]
2025-12-14T16:07:14+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Written by : Umakant Sir (ex-Civil Servant & Mentor) GenZ does not want to work endlessly, because their parents and grandparents did. And there is nothing wrong about it. GenZ prefers meaningful work rather than “just hard work”. […]
2025-10-10T14:35:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Economy, Society|
Imagine this: 13,000 applicants, including 42 PhDs, competing for a single constable post in Madhya Pradesh. In Mumbai, 1,846 executive assistant openings at the city municipal office triggered a flood of applications—not just from fresh graduates, but also from seasoned professionals and postgraduates. In Rajasthan, over 3.7 lakh candidates appeared [...]
2025-07-29T22:32:48+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Policy, Society|
A true story from Puspal village, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh The skies over Puspal, a small tribal village in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, were dark and heavy. The roads were broken, schools were shut, and violence had become a part of everyday life. Most people had lost faith in the government. For them, development [...]
2025-07-25T14:57:11+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
📰 What is the story? In July 2025, a wedding photo from Himachal Pradesh’s Shillai village went viral. Sunita Chauhan, dressed as a bride, was seen sitting between two grooms—brothers Pradeep and Kapil Negi. Their marriage wasn’t a gimmick or media stunt—it was a revival of an old tribal custom [...]
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? [...]
