2026-10-21T15:30:30+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Science, Society|
2026 The 2026 Nobel Prizes were announced between 5 and 12 October. Ten people won across six categories. Each prize comes with a gold medal, a diploma and 12 million Swedish kronor (about 1.2 million US dollars), shared when there is more than one winner. This article explains who won, [...]
2026-10-20T11:00:18+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Mental Health & Society The Quiet Epidemic: Anxiety is the World’s most common Mental Health Condition and India is falling behind in addressing it. 470 million people worldwide live with anxiety disorder. In India, the number of people affected has more than doubled in just over three decades. Only one [...]
2026-09-12T15:19:54+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Geography, Society|
Economy & Society 453 Million People on the Move: Understanding India’s Internal Migration — Who They Are, Why They Move, and Why the System Keeps Failing Them India’s internal migrants — 453 million people as of the last Census — are the backbone of its urban economy. They build its [...]
2026-09-09T20:23:09+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Essays, Society|
There is an old joke that when a man in New York sneezes, a man in Delhi catches a cold. Globalization has merely amplified this. Now, when a bank in New York sneezes, factories in Shenzhen cough, farmers in Kenya lose sleep, programmers in Bengaluru check their phones in anxiety, [...]
2026-09-04T19:41:54+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Society|
Population & Economy India’s Ticking Demography: Why the Next 15 Years Will Decide Whether a Young Country Becomes a Rich One India has the longest demographic dividend window of any country in history — 50 years, from 2005 to 2055. But the benefit is already tapering. The window is open, [...]
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 [...]
2026-03-29T13:49:43+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. […]
