Current Affairs
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Indian Economy 14
Human Capital Formation
A country's real wealth isn't only its factories, roads, or gold reserves. It's also the knowledge and skill locked inside its own people. Economists...
The Equalisation Levy: India’s Digital Ad Tax (2016–2025)
India taxed foreign tech giants like Google and Facebook before it taxed almost anyone else this way. The Equalisation Levy, introduced in 2016, was ...
The Sagarmala Programme
Sixteen months before it happened, nobody expected a Kerala fishing town to host India's first mega-ship terminal. In May 2025, Vizhinjam did exactly...
Tourism Infrastructure Development in India
India's tourist destinations don't get built by one big scheme. They get built by six smaller ones, working together.
Maritime Sector in India: Ports, Shipbuilding, and Vision 2047
Sixteen months ago, the Prime Minister asked a Danish shipping executive to help build container factories in India. In July 2026, the first India-ma...
Kisan e-Mitra
Kisan e-Mitra is an AI chatbot built for the PM-KISAN scheme. This article covers its launch, how it works, and its reach so far.
Digital Agriculture Mission
The Digital Agriculture Mission is a Central umbrella scheme for digital public infrastructure in farming. This article covers its approval, its main...
Banking History and Structure
India's banking system evolved through nationalisation, regional expansion, and recent consolidation, building the structure that serves the country ...
MSMEs and Industrial Policy
India’s industrial policy increasingly focuses on small businesses and manufacturing growth, through dedicated institutions and flagship initiatives.
Effects of Liberalization: Investment, Trade and Debates
Liberalization changed more than just trade rules. This article covers its wider ripple effects, and the debates it never fully settled.
Public Finance and Fiscal Policy
Every government must raise money and decide how to spend it. This article covers how India manages public finance.
Inflation
Rising prices affect everyone, but not equally. This article covers how India measures inflation, and how policy tries to control it.
Service Sector
Services now dominate India's economy more than agriculture or industry. This article looks at why, and what that unusual pattern means.
Industry
India's industrial sector has gone through very different policy eras. This article traces how it moved from tight state control toward openness.
Indian Polity & Constitution 6
Anti-Doping Framework in India: Four Years Between Passage and Power
Parliament passed India's anti-doping law in August 2022. The government only switched it on in July 2026, almost four years later. The delay wasn't ...
Adarsh Gram Yojana: The Scheme That Changed Its Name, Not Its Mission
A scheme called the "Adarsh Gram Yojana" hasn't officially existed by that name since 2021. It was folded into a larger scheme with a different name ...
Justice B.R. Gavai
His biggest judgments came before he ever became Chief Justice. Justice B.R. Gavai helped strike down electoral bonds and uphold the abrogation of Ar...
K.M. Cariappa
K.M. Cariappa was the first Indian to command India's own army. His appointment day is still marked every year, as Army Day. Decades later, at 86, he...
Central Information Commission
For nearly nine years, the body meant to enforce India's Right to Information Act was itself missing most of its own staff. The Central Information C...
The Representation of the People Acts and India’s Election System
India's elections run on rules laid out well before polling day. This article covers the key laws behind them, and the debates around how well the sy...
Modern Indian History 5
Kanaklata Barua: Birbala
She was 17, unarmed, and carrying a flag. That was enough to get her shot.
Madan Mohan Malaviya: Mahamana
A trial court sentenced 172 people to death for the Chauri Chaura violence. One lawyer's appeal cut that number to 19.
Pingali Venkayya and the Design of the Indian National Flag
The man who designed India's flag died in a hut, largely forgotten. Pingali Venkayya spent five years studying and refining flag designs before Gandh...
Maniram Dewan
Maniram Dewan helped the British discover Assam's tea. Decades later, they hanged him. His life traces a complete arc: loyal administrator, pioneerin...
The Two-Nation Theory
Long before Partition became reality, one idea did the most to make it thinkable. This article traces the Two-Nation Theory, from its first articulat...
Science and Technology 3
Drone Swarms: Technology and Tactics
In September 2025, one country fired 818 drones and missiles at a single city in one night. That number was not a fluke. It was a drone swarm — hundr...
Aircraft Black Boxes: Flight and Cockpit Recorders
A "black box" is never actually black. It is bright orange, built to survive fire, an ocean floor, and a crash at over 100 times a fighter jet's ejec...
Genetic Medicine: How Gene Therapy Works
In November 2025, doctors in India took blood stem cells from a sickle-cell patient, edited one faulty gene, and put the cells back. No donor, no lif...
International Relations 2
India-Russia Relations
The partnership got upgraded twice. First to "Strategic," then to "Special and Privileged." Few countries hold that second title with India.
India-Estonia Relations: A Digital-Governance Partnership
Estonia built one of the world's most digitised governments, running almost every public service online. India built the world's largest set of digit...
Art & Culture 2
Sangeet Natak Akademi
Most people assume the Sahitya Akademi came first among India's national arts academies. But the Sangeet Natak Akademi actually predates it, by nearl...
Zoroastrianism and the Parsis: Migration and Sacred Fire
Parsis carried Zoroastrianism to India after fleeing religious persecution in Persia. Their arrival story, and the rituals they preserved, still shap...