by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
Baansera to Biodiversity, How the DDA Green Expo 2026 is Reimagining Delhi’s Urban Future On a Saturday in February 2026, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena stood at Baansera and inaugurated the first-ever Delhi Development Authority (DDA) Green Expo....
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Crisis Manager, Piyush Goyal and the Art of Defending the Indefensible In the high-stakes world of Indian politics, few figures have been as consistently thrust into the eye of the storm as Piyush Goyal. A chartered accountant by training, a seasoned politician by...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Cotton Conundrum, How the U.S.-Bangladesh Deal is Reshaping the Subcontinent’s Textile Trade In the intricate web of global textile trade, few relationships are as symbiotic as that between India and Bangladesh. India, one of the world’s largest cotton...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Great Unraveling, Decoding the Ambiguities of the Evolving India-US Trade Deal On February 7, 2026, the governments of India and the United States issued a joint statement that was meant to herald a new era of bilateral trade relations. It promised reduced...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
Love Across Centuries, Why Valentine’s Day Could Also Be Basavanna’s Day Every year on February 14, the world celebrates Valentine’s Day. Couples exchange flowers and chocolates, restaurants offer special menus, and the air fills with the sentiment...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Thousand Names of the One, Shiva, the Senses, and the Journey from Fragmentation to Unity Why does Shiva have a thousand names? The question is not merely academic; it is an invitation to explore the deepest mysteries of consciousness, perception, and the human...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Secret Life of Cells, Nobel Laureate Randy Schekman on Yeast, Insulin, Open Science, and India’s Lost Potential In the hushed corridors of Bengaluru’s finest venues, where the who’s who of Indian science and industry gather annually for the...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
Bangladesh’s Crossroads, The BNP’s Landslide, the Ghost of Authoritarianism, and the Geopolitical Tightrope The 2026 general election in Bangladesh was never going to be ordinary. It was the first electoral test since the cataclysmic student-led uprising...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Silence in the Spreadsheet, How India’s Budgets Continue to Short-Change the Environment In July 2014, a retired IAS officer wrote a blog post with a pointed title: “Budget 2014 — Short-changing the Environment.” Eleven years later, he returns to...
by admin_ NCSCIAS | Feb 17, 2026 | Courses
The Robe and the Sword, Unpacking the Troubled Intersection of Buddhism, Nationalism, and Violence in Modern Asia In 1988, Philip C. Almond published a book with a deceptively simple title: The British Discovery of Buddhism. But as Rohan Manoj’s review of Sonia...
