Sachin Tendulkar’s family and coach shaped his success

GS Paper 4 Syllabus:  “Role of Family Society and Educational Institutions in Inculcating Values.”   Context: Sachin Tendulkar’s emotional farewell speech during his retirement highlighted how important the role of family, friends and teachers is in the journey to a successful career. Messages from a close member of the family act as a guiding lamp …

Whistleblowing

GS Paper 4   Source: The Hindu Direction: We had already covered Whistleblowing in detail earlier. You can value add a few points from this article into your notes along with the earlier article. Context: CNN and The Washington Post newspaper reported that Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko, a former head of security at Twitter, had filed …

Corruption reflects a crisis of ethics, values

GS Paper 4 Syllabus: Probity in Governance   Source: BusinessLine Direction: Corruption has always been in news, you can pick up a few suggestions given in this article and add them to your notes.   Context: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent Independence Day speech revealed his anguish and exasperation as also his passionate campaign for …

The Avoidable War

GS paper 2 Syllabus: International relations: Bilateral, regional and global grouping involving India and India’s neighbourhood etc   Source: The Hindu Directions: The mapping of disputes between India and China is important for Prelims and for mains-Issues concerning the India-China relationship Context: There are parallels between China’s actions at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) …

The concerns around the Aadhaar-Voter ID linkage

GS paper 2 Syllabus: Government policies and interventions for the development of various sectors and issues arising out of it etc   Directions: Important topic for the perspective of the main, can be asked directly or can be used as an example in privacy-related issues. Source: The Hindu Context: There have been reports of instances …