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GS-4 Ethics Capsule — The Village Pond and the Emergency Chain (Environmental Ethics & Whistleblowing)

Session 14 (finale): environmental ethics as speaking for those not in the room — the village-pond tragedy of the commons, trusteeship and intergenerational equity; whistleblowing as the emergency chain, with its four-point ethical test; and Socrates, history's first whistleblower.

FCRA, Domestic Giving and the Case for an Atmanirbhar Philanthropy Ecosystem

Domestic giving has crossed ₹1.18 lakh crore — five times foreign inflows — and that single fact rewrites the FCRA debate from existential to administrative. The tax signal that stalls giving, the share-donation route India lacks, and why the source of money decides the direction of accountability.