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Twelve to thirteen live sessions
The entire current map, taught chapter by chapter — nothing left to self-study.
The complete current map for Political Science & International Relations — now taught in full. Twelve to thirteen live sessions across both papers, turning 34 current-affairs chapters into answer-ready arguments.
Every theme on this map earns its place for this year’s paper — the developments most likely to shape Mains 2026. And the map stays live: as the trajectory of a new event develops before the exam, it joins the list.
The companion gave you the territory — 34 chapters, both papers, ranked by what the examiner rewards. Phase 2 is the classroom that walks you through every inch of it.
Across twelve to thirteen live sessions, each chapter is taught in full: the development as it actually unfolded, the syllabus concept and thinker it connects to, and the debate it sits inside. Nothing is left to self-study, and nothing is reduced to a bullet list of facts.
Every chapter is built to end at the exam. You leave each session knowing the argument the question wants, the counter-view that earns the second half of the marks, and the conclusion that lands — the same source-faithful, contemporary-affairs-anchored writing this programme is built on.
The entire current map, taught chapter by chapter — nothing left to self-study.
Indian Government & Politics and International Relations & Foreign Policy in one arc.
Every development carried back to the syllabus concept, the thinker, and the debate it belongs to.
Chapters ordered Very High to Capsule, so your 17 highest-impact themes come first.
Each chapter ends at the exam: the argument, the counter-view, and the line that scores.
Delivered through the student portal — included free for test-series enrolments.
Every chapter carries a yield band drawn from a ten-year reading of the papers. A stamp marks the themes the examiner has already reached for in 2025.
The first caste-enumerated census since 1931 reopens the politics of representation, the 50% reservation ceiling, and data-driven social justice.
Asked · 2025 · P-ICensus 2027 unlocks both the long-frozen delimitation exercise and the women’s reservation rollout — the decade’s defining question on federal balance and democratic equality.
The 2024 striking-down of electoral bonds gives a fresh, concrete vehicle for the recurring constitutional-morality theme — transparency, RTI, and electoral integrity.
The Tamil Nadu Governor judgment and the 2025 Presidential Reference together form the single most consequential constitutional-law development of the period.
The 2023 appointments law and the Anoop Baranwal judgment place the independence of the Election Commission squarely in debate.
Asked · 2025 · P-IWith its award cycle running 2026–31 and a 41% devolution recommendation, this is the live anchor for every fiscal-federalism and Centre–State resources question.
The restoration of an elected government tests asymmetric federalism, autonomy, and democratic legitimacy — and frames internal security in border states.
Asked · 2025 · P-ITwo landmark 2024 rulings — permitting sub-classification within Scheduled Castes and limiting remission powers — rewrite the doctrine of affirmative action and substantive equality.
The cash-discovery case and removal proceedings against a sitting High Court judge mark the most significant judicial-accountability episode in fifteen years — reviving the NJAC debate.
Data-protection rules, the national AI mission and the Paris AI Summit open a frontier where liberty, privacy, state capacity and power intersect — an emerging examiner favourite.
The simultaneous-elections Bill and its parliamentary scrutiny raise core questions of federalism, democratic accountability and the basic structure.
The Act and its interim judicial stay provide the newest benchmark on Indian secularism, principled distance, minority rights and state regulation of religion.
President’s Rule and its revocation enacted the entire S.R. Bommai cycle in real time — joining federalism, ethnic conflict and weak-state governance.
Bihar’s mandate, the rise of TVK in Tamil Nadu and the run-up to fresh polls illustrate coalitional consolidation and personality-driven mobilisation as live features of Indian democracy.
India’s response to the Pahalgam attack marks a doctrinal shift from strategic restraint to deterrence by punishment — the most discussed security event of the cycle.
Asked · 2025 · P-IIThe Treaty held in abeyance and suspended bilateral channels raise sharp questions of international law, coercive diplomacy and the future India–Pakistan equation.
Border disengagement and renewed high-level contact, read alongside managed US–China competition, frame India’s positioning in an emerging triangular order.
The tariff crisis and its partial resolution test India’s strategic autonomy, while a revived Monroe Doctrine and US retrenchment reshape the global order India must navigate.
Linked · 2025 · P-IIPutin’s Delhi visit — defence deliveries, energy ties and a renewed partnership framing — is a clear contemporary angle for the strategic-autonomy debate.
The concluded UK agreement and the advancing EU negotiations represent India’s own hedging response to a turbulent trade order.
Asked · 2025 · P-IIRegime change in Dhaka, the tribunal verdict and the extradition request put India’s Neighbourhood First doctrine under its sharpest stress test.
Asked · 2025 · P-IIThe Iran–Israel war and the Lebanon ceasefire test India’s calibrated multi-alignment, while the genocide case at the ICJ anchors the international-law dimension.
The lapse of the last US–Russia arms-control treaty — for the first time since 1972 — alongside fragile ceasefire diplomacy, defines the rules-based-order question.
Expansion, the Rio and Tianjin summits and India’s incoming BRICS chair make this the most-cited cluster for Global South diplomacy and a multipolar order.
The Pact for the Future, provisional measures at the ICJ and arrest warrants at the ICC offer rich material on institutional reform, international law and their limits.
The new climate-finance goal at Baku — and India’s sharp response — keeps the politics of common-but-differentiated responsibility and climate justice firmly in play.
Quad dynamics, maritime initiatives and the Voice of Global South summits sustain this as a reliable, high-yield arena of security and economic statecraft.
A new government in Colombo, the Maldives reset and continuing churn in Kathmandu provide live test cases for Neighbourhood First and Indian Ocean strategy.
The African Union’s permanent G20 seat, critical-minerals diplomacy and the revived India–Africa Forum make Africa a high-probability question.
Electoral and judicial upheavals across France, Germany and the Netherlands give comparative-politics depth to the global debate on populism and democratic erosion.
Asked · 2025 · P-IIThe US exit from the WHO and the adoption of the Pandemic Agreement frame the contemporary debate on global health governance and multilateral retreat.
Asked · 2025 · P-IIData-protection rules, AI governance and the digital-rupee experiment connect the rights debate of Paper I with the technology-governance debate of Paper II.
Reciprocal tariffs, the USMCA review and middle-power diversification expose the structural strain on the multilateral trading order — the backdrop to India’s trade diplomacy.
A short capsule on remission powers, Article 142 and the criminal-justice dimension of federalism — a compact companion to the Governor and reservation chapters.
Phase 2 runs as a standalone course, and ships free inside every PSIR test-series programme for Mains 2026.
All 34 chapters across both papers, taught live over 12–13 sessions and available on your ForumIAS portal. For the aspirant who has the static base and now needs the dynamic half — organised, current, and answer-ready.
Get the schedule on TelegramIf you are enrolled in any of the following for Mains 2026, Phase 2 is already yours. It will appear in your portal:
Test-series students: open your ForumIAS portal — Phase 2 sessions are listed there at no extra charge. New to the programme: enroll in Phase 2 for ₹5,000 and follow the channel for the session schedule and updates.
Anyone writing PSIR for Mains 2026 who has the theory but needs the dynamic half organised, current, and exam-ready.
Those who cannot afford to re-read everything and want the current map built for them, ranked by what actually scores.
Aspirants who have the standard sources but struggle to connect each development back to theory under exam pressure.
Phase 2 is taught in the approach this programme is known for: source-faithful, contemporary-affairs-anchored answer writing that bridges static theory and the latest developments. Every chapter is treated as a question waiting to be answered — with the argument, the critique, and the conclusion an examiner rewards.