7 November 2026
In this issue
- 1
The electoral roll as a welfare database — and what the Supreme Court held
The Hindu - 2
A young electorate and the politics of spontaneity
The Indian Express - 3
The World Bank’s poverty numbers, and what they leave out
Deccan Herald - 4
India’s window in Washington before the new Congress is seated
Deccan Herald - 5
When foreign policy reached the kitchen table
CFR
UPSC has asked questions on these themes
- GS Paper II · 2026
Is the right to vote a fundamental right? Discuss the position of the Election Commission of India while undertaking the revision of electoral rolls. Can it also examine the question of citizenship of voters?
- GS Paper II · 2026
Can the constitutional mandate of rights-based welfare be effectively realised in the context of non-integrated governance and minimal public investment? Examine.
- GS Paper II · 2026
To what extent do pressure groups, social movements and corporate lobbies deepen pluralistic democracy in India by representing excluded interests? Analyse whether the growing convergence of corporate wealth and political power poses a threat to the autonomy of formal democratic institutions.
- GS Paper I · 2026
Evaluate the impact of globalization on Indian youths with reference to social, political, economic and cultural spheres.
- GS Paper II · 2026
Examine how the separation of powers is practised in India compared to the rigid presidential model of the United States of America. In this context, compare the actual authority of the Indian Prime Minister with that of the President of the USA.
- GS Paper II · 2025
Inequality in the ownership pattern of resources is one of the major causes of poverty. Discuss in the context of ‘paradox of poverty’.
- PSIR Paper II · 2025
India continues to invoke its time-tested policy of strategic autonomy vis-à-vis both the United States of America and Russia by rejecting US’ offer of mediation on Kashmir issue and by refusing to criticize Russia in its ongoing war against Ukraine. Comment.
- PSIR Paper II · 2025
Trump’s unilateral imposition of reciprocal tariffs on scores of countries poses impending threat to the future of the rule-based multilateral global trading system under the WTO. What options do the WTO members have to salvage the organization?
Each issue takes five readings from the day’s newspapers and journals and sets them against the PSIR syllabus and the UPSC questions they bear on. All briefs