About Shikher Goyal

Shikher Goyal is the founder and editorial lead at Digitally Learn. He sat the UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Examination five times between 2012 and 2019, and also wrote the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission Preliminary Examination during the same period.

That long stretch as a serious aspirant, across multiple syllabus revisions, four Prelims pattern shifts, and the Mains GS-paper rebalance of 2013, shapes how the editorial work is organised today. Every article is structured the way an aspirant actually needs to revise from: a clean definitional opener, an explicit “why it matters” thread, two or three distinguishing features, observable real-world outcomes, contemporary linkages to the year’s news cycle, and a Mains-answer-friendly closing.

Why I run Digitally Learn now

I work full-time in digital strategy and search-engine optimisation, and bring that discipline to the editorial direction of Digitally Learn: content architecture, on-page structure, internal linking, primary-source attribution, and the technical schema that helps a serious topic actually surface for the aspirants who need it.

The combination is deliberate. Five attempts at Prelims taught me which kinds of explanation actually stick under exam pressure. SEO and digital-strategy work taught me how to build a site that competes against the loud, ad-saturated coaching ecosystem without becoming part of it. Digitally Learn is what falls out of that combination: structured, primary-source-grounded, ad-light study material for UPSC-CSE Prelims and Mains aspirants.

How content is produced

Primary sources first. Every entry starts from the NCERT chapter, the relevant Ministry / Department PIB release, the parliamentary record, the gazetted Act or constitutional Article, the IPCC / NOAA / USGS / GSI data layer, or the UN-system body’s report. Wikipedia is used as a currency cross-check, never as the primary substrate.
Previous-year question alignment. Each article is mapped to the actual UPSC-CSE Prelims and Mains questions that have tested the topic in the past ten years, plus the State PCS questions that have tested the same topic.
Source diversity. Every topic carries at least six distinct authoritative sources from across NCERT, Ministry portals, parliamentary material, IPCC / UN bodies, peer-reviewed research, and credentialed Indian institutions (ISRO / IMD / GSI / NCS / ICAR / NBSSLUP, etc.).
Two-layer factual review. Every article passes a deterministic factual-claim review (URL HEAD-check, value-presence verification, topic-anchor proximity) before it can be flagged for public release.

Editorial team

Operational editorial work (outlines, drafts, source verification, figure preparation, and copy-editing) runs through a small in-house team led by me. When subject-matter specialists contribute, they are credited per-article. The default byline is mine because I personally review every article before it is flipped live.

Contact & corrections

If you find a factual error, a stale date, an out-of-syllabus drift, or a citation that doesn’t resolve, please write to me directly. Every flagged correction is logged at /corrections/ with the date, the original text, the corrected text, and the source we used to verify the fix.

For the full editorial workflow, see the Editorial Policy.