by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
Solar’s Half-Built Bridge, Why India’s Battery Storage Gap Threatens Its Clean Energy Future India scaled a record peak demand of 256.1 GW on April 25, with solar plants supplying 21.5 per cent of the afternoon load—an all-time high, and the clearest...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
Silencing the Ivory Tower, How India’s Academic Freedom Crisis Is Weakening Democracy Itself According to the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute 2026 report, India is still classified as an “electoral autocracy,” ranking in the lower half...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
Punjab’s Electoral Crucible, BJP’s Solo Gamble, AAP’s Internal Crisis, and Congress’s Discord Buoyed by electoral victories in West Bengal, Assam, and Puducherry, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems eager to carry that momentum into Punjab,...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
Khela Hobe, When the Game Is Not Played on Equal Terms “Khela Hobe” — the game will be played — once rang out as a slogan of defiance. It was a rallying cry, a promise of resistance, a declaration that the political contest was not over. In the quiet after...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
Bulldozer Justice, When the State Substitutes Spectacle for Procedure The sight of a five-year-old gifting a toy bulldozer to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on March 27 at Gorakhpur made for a tender photo moment. The Chief Minister returned the gift and...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
Tamil Nadu’s Political Earthquake, How Vijay’s TVK Shattered the Dravidian Duopoly The surprise victory of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) under the leadership of actor-turned-politician Joseph Vijay in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections has, for the...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
The Artisan Refuses to Be Edited Out, What Manish Malhotra’s Met Gala Gesture Means for Global Fashion The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala — better known as the Met Gala — is not merely a fundraiser. It is the single most powerful stage...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
Power to the People, Why Uttar Pradesh Stepped Back from Mandatory Prepaid Smart Meters Facing sustained protests, regulatory pushback, shifting policy signals from the Centre, and political calculations ahead of next year’s Assembly elections, the Uttar Pradesh...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
In the Name of Country, Away from Home, Afghan Women Footballers Win the Right to Play for Their Nation After eight long years, war-scarred women footballers from Afghanistan living in exile across the world can finally play in FIFA tournaments. They can proudly bear...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | May 9, 2026 | Courses
Left Out and Left Behind, What the Communist Decline Means for Indian Politics In 2015, the late Sitaram Yechury wrote in The Marxist: “We [communists] have, for many decades, been repeating the Leninist dictum that the ‘concrete analysis of concrete...
