Saptang: The Monthly PSIR Current Affairs Digest (Paper I-B & II-B)
Half of PSIR is written in the present tense. Paper I-B moves with every federalism judgment and electoral reform; Paper II-B moves with every summit, sanction and border incident. Most aspirants meet this with panic-downloads in October. The Saptang — the monthly PSIR current affairs digest — replaces that with a system: one monthly digest of current affairs for PSIR, curated by what the syllabus can actually ask, delivered where you already are — Telegram.
What each issue carries
- Paper I-B watch: the month's constitutional and political developments — judgments, commissions, federal frictions — each tagged to its syllabus chapter.
- Paper II-B watch: the month's IR — India's bilaterals, the UN system, West Asia, the neighbourhood — through the national-interest lens, not newspaper summary.
- Scholar hooks: which theorist speaks to which headline (the difference between an example and an argument).
- "→ Use in" lines: every item ends with the exact question-families it deploys into — the habit that turns reading into marks.
- Two examples per answer rule: each issue closes with model deployment — how a 15-marker actually absorbs the month.
The sources that matter (and only these)
One newspaper read properly (The Hindu or Indian Express), MEA statements for bilaterals, PIB for schemes touching Paper I-B, and one journal habit — IDSA commentaries or a fortnightly foreign-affairs read. Everything else is noise; the digest exists so you don't have to read wider, only sharper.
Issue archive
- August 2026 — link latest issue PDF
- July 2026 — link issue PDF
- Earlier issues — archive folder link
New issues land first on Telegram — t.me/cse_spyt — free. For the weekly classroom version with answer-writing built in, see the Foundation Batch and Mentorship.
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