Fortune favours the bold
Every few years a case arrives that is worth more to a General Studies Paper IV candidate than a whole chapter of definitions. The dispute now before the Supreme Court over a preventive detention...
A question-by-question audit of UPSC CSE Mains 2026 GS Paper IV against the twelve-lecture Ethics course: which questions came directly from class, which indirectly, and what will be added for 2027.
The complete UPSC Mains 2026 Psychology Optional Paper 2 (held 30 August 2026, code KVMS-B-PSG), transcribed question by question, with model answers written at the word limit under every question.
The complete UPSC Mains 2026 Psychology Optional Paper 1 (held 30 August 2026, code KVMS-P-PSG), transcribed question by question, with model answers written at the word limit under every question.
For 30 years a 100-km road in Manipur stayed unbuilt. In 2012, IAS officer Armstrong Pame raised Rs 40 lakh on Facebook and built it with the villagers themselves.
Chapter 34 · How RAS Case Studies Differ from UPSC Case Studies · RAS Unit 9 The method transfers directly. The terrain does not. Most of the marks lost in a RAS case study...
Chapter 33 · Instrumental Rationality versus Value Rationality · RAS Unit 8 Bureaucracy is built to answer one question extremely well: what is the most efficient way to reach a given target. It is...
Chapter 32 · Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and Administrative Conscience · RAS Unit 7 A welfare algorithm can calculate an eligibility score. It cannot be summoned to a departmental inquiry, and it cannot feel the...
Chapter 31 · Gandhian Ethics: Satya, Ahimsa, Trusteeship and Their Critics · RAS Unit 5 Means and ends, and antyodaya, are covered in Chapter 27. This chapter takes the three ideas RAS asks for...
Chapter 30 · Ethics of the Bhagavad Gita in Administration · RAS Unit 4 Four ideas from a battlefield dialogue, and a direct reading for someone who cannot wait for certainty and cannot resign...
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Road to LBSNAA: 1ST Attempt
Prince Luthra · UPSC CSE AIR 577
The full journey to the Academy — how the preparation was built, what went wrong, and what finally worked.
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