Monthly Archives: October 2018

Value Added Article: Recognizing the Empty Bowls | Category – Poverty and Hunger | Source – EPW

Millions of Indians, especially those on the margins, have been customarily living precarious lives due to failures of the system in reaching entitlements to them. Under such situations hunger is both chronic and temporally endemic (or intergenerational).

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Static – Modern History (Post-Independence) – Relations with Pakistan | Focus – Mains

Despite the Kashmir issue, the Government of India adopted towards Pakistan a policy of fair dealing and of promoting conciliation and reducing mutual tensions.

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Editorial Simplified: Balancing Pressures from U.S., China and Russia | GS – II

At a time when India’s relationships with big powers like the U.S., Russia, China and Europe are increasingly being complicated by their rivalries with each other, the country needs to follow its traditional policy of strategic autonomy, focussing on its own vital interests.

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