For many families with UPSC aspirants, it takes a village to fulfil the near impossible dream. Loans have to be taken and money must be saved to feed the great Indian coaching factories.
From Gujarat to West Bengal and Kerala to Uttar Pradesh, state-run UPSC coaching centres are now part of the Rs 3,000 crore industry in India. But they don’t market themselves overtly.
There’s been a surge in edtech platforms like UPSC Wallah and StudyIQ offering online classes and study material in pen drives that are mailed across India for the civil services exam.
Sometimes, we end up embroidering the truth as we overthink and overanalyse a fastidious lady’s personal wardrobe preferences for significant occasions.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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