Understand Everything About a River Drainage & Drainage Patterns

Dendritic, Trellis, Rectangular and Radial

16 Nov 2016 | Back2Basics: Daily Static and CA Revision using News

Everyday we read news, but do we do more than read it? The best way to learn from news is to find the issues and facts which we don’t know and research them. Starting today we will try to list some topics to help you do that. Let’s call this the new avatar of #Back2Basics… Continue reading

The 5 Types of Natural Vegetation in India and Their Charactersitics

Look out for the 3 zones of mangrove forests in the end!

The 4 Types of Mountains and their Detailed Charactersitics

Folds, Block, Volcanic & Dome

Classifications of Rocks: Sedimentary, Igneous and Metamorphic

Understand the 3 basic rock types and their sub-types with their identification parameters.

The Changing Earth: Phenomena of Weathering and Erosion

Understand the difference between weathering and erosion + agents of erosion in detail

The 8 Major Types of Farming Systems in India

From Subsistence to Commercial, from mixed to terrace. Understand everything about types of farming in India.

Economics | Budget Deficits Explained

This note will help you learn Deficits by deriving them. It's one of those Not-To-Be-Missed post.

[Spiritual Tourism #3] PRASAD Cities- Kanchipuram, Mathura, Puri

Continuing our Spiritual tour through Kanchipuram in South, Kedarnath in the North. Traversing along Ganga basin we reach Mathura along banks of Yamuna to finally witness the great Rath Yatra at Puri in the East.

[Spiritual Tourism #2] PRASAD Cities- Amritsar, Gaya, Dwarka and Kamakhya

Continuing our Spiritual tour through Dwarka in the West, Amristar in the North and finally Kamakhya in the East. We'll also make a stopover in Gaya (too late to attain Enlightenment?)

Everything that you should know about the World Trade Organization (WTO)

World Trade Organization (WTO) as the name suggests, is the organization dealing with the global rules of trade between nations. Its main function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible. But why do nations trade? Whatever happened to Swadeshi and self sufficiency? Different factor endowments – simplest and obvious logic… Continue reading

[Spiritual Tourism #1] PRASAD Cities- Ajmer and Amaravati

National Mission on Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual Augmentation Drive (PRASAD) to beautify and improve the amenities and infrastructure at pilgrimage centres of all faiths.

Repatriation of Artifacts & Antiquities under Colonial Possession

Should UK return Koh-i-noor diamond and Peacock Throne to India? What are the risks and challenges associated with it? Are there any International conventions that back India's claim? Why is there no progress yet?

Theft of Artifacts & Antiquities, Domestic Laws and International Conventions

Why curbing theft of Artifacts is important, what are the legal provisions in place and why are they ineffective? What can we learn from other countries?

Museums of India and Associated Issues

Mandate of any Indian Museum is to collect art objects, and to disseminate their knowledge; to serve as cultural centre for enjoyment and to epitomize national identity.