{"id":362539,"date":"2026-05-09T15:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=362539"},"modified":"2026-05-09T15:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:47:21","slug":"psir-brief-issue-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/psir-brief-issue-48\/","title":{"rendered":"PSIR Brief Issue # 48"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Brief covers these themes:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Avinash Verma and Ashok R Patil<\/strong>, in <strong>Deccan Herald<\/strong> talks about UCC as a test of gender justice and federal experimentation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Atul Kumar\u2019s<\/strong> article in<strong> ORF<\/strong> focuses on the China-Pakistan axis as serious but not a full military alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The third article of <strong>K P Nayar<\/strong> in <strong>Deccan Herald<\/strong> analysis UAE\u2019s OPEC exit not a win for India but a signal of changing global energy order.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC has previously asked question on these themes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>GS-II (2025):<\/strong> \u201cEnergy security constitutes the dominant kingpin of India\u2019s foreign policy, and is linked with India\u2019s overarching influence in Middle Eastern countries. How would you integrate energy security with India\u2019s foreign policy trajectories in the coming years?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>PSIR Paper II (2025):<\/strong> \u201cChina\u2019s growing footprint and a tangible shift in power dynamics in Bangladesh has weakened India\u2019s leverage in Dhaka. Comment.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>PSIR Paper I (2025):<\/strong> \u201cExplain how the slogan \u2018the personal is political\u2019 addresses the issue of women\u2019s oppression and discrimination?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>GS-II ((2024):<\/strong> \u201cDiscuss India as a secular state and compare with the secular principles of the US constitution.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>PSIR Paper II (2024):<\/strong> \u201cDoes the idea of the 21st century as \u2018Asian century\u2019 continue to remain feasible given the growing friction between India and China?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0GS-II (2023):<\/strong> \u201cExplain the constitutional perspectives of Gender Justice with the help of relevant Constitutional Provisions and case laws.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/psirbyamitpratap\/549\">Download the PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Brief covers these themes: Avinash Verma and Ashok R Patil, in Deccan Herald talks about UCC as a test of gender justice and federal experimentation. Atul Kumar\u2019s article in ORF focuses on the China-Pakistan axis as serious but not a full military alliance. The third article of K P Nayar in Deccan Herald analysis&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/psir-brief-issue-48\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PSIR Brief Issue # 48<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}