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World Tsunami Awareness Day and the Last Mile
World Tsunami Awareness Day on 5 November marks a Japanese village headman who set fire to his rice harvest to guide people to high ground in 1854. Two decades after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, India can detect a tsunami within minutes. The unsolved problem is whether the warning reaches the person on the beach with enough time to move.
Read article →The Delhi High Court and the Limits of the 24-Week Rule
The Delhi High Court allowed a 16-year-old rape survivor to terminate a 31-week pregnancy, seven weeks past the statutory limit. The judgment applies the Medical Board route in the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act rather than creating a new right. The real problem it exposes is that the outcome of such cases depends on which High Court a petitioner reaches.
Read article →The US Midterms: What to Watch, and What They Will Not Change
Americans vote on 3 November for the whole House, a third of the Senate and most governorships. For India, the result matters less through foreign policy, which is largely executive, than through appropriations, sanctions waivers, confirmations and the farm bill. A guide to reading the night without over-reading it.
Read article →Pre-trial Detention Cannot Become Punishment
The Supreme Court's bail order in the Jal Jeevan Mission tender case restates a rule it has been restating since 1977: gravity of allegation alone is not a ground for detention. The interesting question is why the restatement is needed every few years, and the answer is that Section 479 BNSS offers a remedy that arrives only after the harm is done.
Read article →How to Read the October GST Number
The October GST collection figure will be released on 1 November and read as a verdict on the economy. It is a tax administration number before it is an economic one. Gross is not net, nominal is not real, and this is the first October in which the year-on-year comparison is no longer distorted by the 2025 rate cut.
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Strategy
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Why PYQ analysis is the highest-ROI habit in UPSC preparation
Most inputs in preparation are somebody's guess about what might be asked. The question papers are the one source that records what was actually asked, and counting ten years of them produces a map with no opinion in it.
Read guide →How to revise the UPSC syllabus three times before Prelims
Three passes, three different jobs. One compresses the chapter, one reconstructs it from memory, and one triages it by how often the topic actually appears. The method, and when each pass belongs in the calendar.
Read guide →UPSC Prelims 2027: a 12-month study plan that actually works
A month-by-month plan for the full UPSC Prelims cycle: syllabus completion, first revision, test series, PYQ analysis, and the final consolidation phase. Built around realistic daily hours, not wishful thinking.
Read guide →UPSC Prelims subject-wise weightage: what to prioritise first
Every subject is worth the same mark, which is the only thing about them that is equal. The seven subjects differ in what they demand, and study time should follow the kind of demand rather than the size of the syllabus.
Read guide →UPSC study plan for working professionals with 3 hours daily
Three hours a day is enough, but only if the hours are shaped differently from a full-time aspirant's. What to study when, what to deliberately skip, and why consistency beats a ten-hour day you cannot sustain.
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