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Important Editorials
Editorial – Diaspora Watch – Revisiting a passage from India !!!
January 9 commemorates the day Mahatma Gandhi returned from South Africa in 1915, after honing satyagraha, or peaceful protest, against the colonial and racist regime there. In 2002, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government of [...]
History Watch – Jayasi’s Padmavat – Rani Padmini And Alauddin Khilji: Separating Fact From Fiction
Background – Activists of the Rajput Karni Sena wrecked havoc on the sets of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film ‘Padmavati’ recently by attacking the filmmaker and vandalising the crew’s equipment. The group claims that the director is showcasing [...]
Editorial – Society Watch – Happiness – All that is there to it !!!
Note:- UPSC has asked an essay a while back on Gross Happiness Index and since then it has been more or less became a theme and was asked in the exams repeatedly. For example – [...]
Polity Watch – Hurting Brand India With Distortions !!!
*Disclaimer – This is an editorial written by Mohandas Pai, he was the CFO and then the head of HR at Infosys. He is now Chairman, Aarin Capital Partners. He usually writes for many newspapers including [...]
Essay Strategy-Life is long journey between human being and being humane !!!
IS THERE ANY RELEVANCE OF THE TOPIC ? If you look at this years essay paper, one wonders – Why has UPSC gone so philosophical over the years as far as essay is concerned ? [...]
National Security Watch – From Kautilya to Kofi Annan !!!
An Indian strategic thinker of the 3rd century B.C. bearing the name Kautilya dwelt on the subject of threats that states encounter and developed a typology: Those of external origins and internal abetment; Those of [...]
Recent Publications
DNA [Daily News Analysis] – 08 Nov 2022
News Snippet News 1: Supreme Court Judgement on EWS reservation News 2: NPR needs to be updated again to incorporate changes due to birth, death, migration News 3: Census, NPR sites declared ‘protected system’ News [...]
[Polity] Supreme Court Ruling on EWS reservation quota
Background A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, in a 3:2 majority decision, upheld the validity of the 103rd Constitutional Amendment, which provides 10% reservation in government jobs and educational institutions to the Economically Weaker [...]
[FP & IR] Matera Declaration, India’s G20 presidency and food security
Global and regional food security have been deliberated upon as one of the priority agendas of the G20 for many years now. The situation has worsened with growing conflicts, and spiralling climate crises marked by [...]
DNA [Daily News Analysis] – 06 & 07 Nov 2022
News Snippet News 1: COP-27 puts climate compensation on agenda for first time News 2: Camera traps renew hope for snow leopard in Kashmir News 3: Indian black honeybee is a Western Ghats discovery News [...]
[Society] How is India planning to end child marriage?
Background The steering committee of a global programme to end child marriage is on a visit to India to witness state interventions which have helped reduce the prevalence of child marriage. The visit by the [...]
[Polity] Uniform Civil Code – In-depth
Background Ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections, Gujarat on October 29 joined the list of BJP-ruled States that have called for implementing the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). […]
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