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Here are all three for you to revisit, revise and save to your notes

1. Rupee goes International? (Posted today)
https://blog.csewhy.com/p/137-rupee-going-international

2. India-US Relations (12k+ views already)
https://blog.csewhy.com/p/129-pm-modi-in-usa

3. India-Egypt Relations (6.3k+ views already)
https://blog.csewhy.com/p/130-pm-modi-in-egypt

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🚨July 8 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Mains Keywords

1. Viksit Bharat, Adhyatmik Bharat
- A push towards spirituality in modern India
- Relevant for GS1 culture answers and GS3 HR/Economy

2. Knowledge Economy
- Multiple level definition. Most apt: Industries where advanced knowledge is a major input
- eg: Pharma, IT etc.

Pre related

1. Naegleria fowleri aka brain eating amoeba
- Found in:
a) Warm freshwaters surviving on bacteria in sediments of lakes/rivers
b) Poorly maintained swimming pools and entertainment parks
c) Can't survive the saline conditions
- Enters human body via nose and travels to brain to 'eat' it
- Symptoms:
a) Causes Inflammation & destruction of brain tissue,
b) High fever, infection, nausea, vomiting, confusion, seizures

2. Cluster Munitions
- Bomb opening in air releasing smaller bomblets (Big bomb carrying small bombs)
- Bomblets are so designed to take out tanks and equipment and troops
- The launch technology for Munitions already with Ukraine
- dud rate: Many bomblets remains behind to kill even decades later

Quote

1. A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself - Laura Gilpin

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Changing battlefields [read it as a connected story on how A leads to B]
2. Reckoning for multiculturalism [good counter view for pro-immigration policies]
3. Standing up for national anthem: what the SC has ruled [read for awareness]
4. China's slowing economy [Notice factors leading to slowdown, connect their relation with each other]

TH
1. Sobriety after euphoria of US state visit [The pointers from here would be updated on my India-US blog]
2. The long road to finding true peace in Yemen [quick read for idea on the matter]


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🚨July 9 2023 | Sunday🚨

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Mains keywords

1. Nari Adalat
A GoI initiative for women court to breakaway from patriarchal setup

2. Cyber Panchayat
An initiative of Yamunanagar police (Haryana) where government functionaries meet the villagers to resolve issues in least possible time

Pre related

1. Warkaris
- Warkari: War is abbreviation of wari (pilgrimage) and kari (one who performs pilgrimage)
- Pilgrimage to pray to Lord Vitthal/Vithoba at Pandarpur in Maharashtra
- 21 days, 250km pilgrimage called Dindi
- Culminates on Ashadhi Ekadashi (Ekadashi of Ashad month) with a dip in the river Chandrabhaga
- On the way, warkaris do:
a) nam japa (Chant lord's name)
b) abhang (sing holy songs)
c) hari path (read sacred texts)

Reading Recommendations

IE: nothing significant here today, invest time in writing answers for an hour today

TH
1. Rain, pests drain mangoes of colour, flavour in north (Pg-9) [read for GS3 Agri & Economy]
2. Moderate alcohol consumption has no health benefits [can read jist given in the graphic]
3. The US SC ban on race-based admissions [affirmative action, imp wrt reservation in India]
4. Why are India-Russia trade payments in crisis? [and why internationalisation of rupee is important]
5. Why is China limiting exports of raw materials? [very good article]
6. A new digital town square [read for multiple angles on why Threads came up!]
7. Pepsico appeal on FC5 Potato patent [pg14]


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You’d hear a lot of ‘keywords’ these days vis-á-vis 🇮🇳 on global stage

- ₹ Internationalisation
- 🇮🇳🇺🇸 bonhomie
- ‘not an era of war’
- de-dollarisation

(..and many more)

While it’s essential to learn what are these, it’s even more important to realise ‘Why’

Simple answer:
World is in a chaos. We are living events that history books describe as once in a millennium setups.

As a #UPSC aspirant, go to basics of ‘Why’ & you’ll see the quality of your thoughts improving. This will further reflect on your answers, speech, and behaviour.

And that, my friend, is the goal!
“To be a better thinker”

Mains answers or interview speech is a byproduct of
- how well do you think
- how well can you articulate what you think
- how well can you write what you articulate

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🚨July 10 2023 | Monday🚨

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Mains Keywords

1. Digital Nagrik
A good keyword to reflect online users in Indian way

2. Data Portability and Interoperability
Self explanatory keywords wrt data bill

3. Type of fuels
a) Flex Fuel: Flexible fuel
- A combination of fuels like ethanol or petrol

b) Synthetic fuel
- Made of carbon dioxide and hydrogen
- Produced using renewables, under development at Prosche

Pre related

1. Take a look at Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D) here

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. The problems with BEVs [Important article, make a one page note u/ EVs]
2. Delhi HC rejects PepsiCo's appeal: what's the case [just read once to know about FL 2027 and patent rules]
3. Energising the sciences (read to enhance your opinion on NRF)
4. Empowering the digital nagrik [I am collecting all Data bill related articles and will write a detailed blog post later. Subscribe here with email]
5. App for attendance, Google sheets for midday meals: Bihar education dept rings in changes [pg8: use as example in answers]

TH
1. Turtles help clean the Ganga (Pg4, read to take an idea for environment answers)
2. Modi's 'rouble wise, rupee foolish' policy [imp geoeconomy & geopolitics lesson here]
3. Design education in India: its origin, challenges, and opportunities [just a read to know supply/demand issues]


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🚨July 11 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Mains Keywords

1. Reproductive autonomy
- Self explanatory, often used in ethics of abortion

2. Global south related keywords
- Asian Century
- Post-western world
- The west and the rest

Pre related
1. Lambani Art
- Art of a nomadic community inhabitating Karnataka
- Made of patchwork, applique, beadwork, and embroidery
- Sandur Lambani embroidery has GI-tag

2. Theme of World Population Day
- Unleashing the power of gender equality: Uplifting the voices of women and girls to unlock our world's infinite
(Idk why is this so long but it is what it is :P)


Quotes
- Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act - Albert Einstein

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. UCC lessons from Goa (I will compile UPSC relevant notes from all UCC articles in newspaper on blog. Subscribe with your email)
2. Challenge to J&K changes (rough read to know basics)
3. China view on SCO summit: Iran welcome, need to 'save' group from India [read to know what Beijing is thinking]

TH
1. How Urban India is reclaiming spaces for its communities? [GS1 Urbanization]
2. AI's disruptive economic impact, an India check [good points on good, bad and opportunity]
3. Women's reproductive autonomy as the new catchword
4. Don't waste the wastewater [GS1 Urbanization and GS3 Economy relevant]
5. Need for strengthening Palliative care in the face of non-communicable diseases [GS3, make a one page note]
6. Global south: origins and significance [Click here to find organized notes on the blog from this]
7. What were events that led to riots in France? [read just gist]


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🚨July 12 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Mains Keywords

1. High modernism
- A form of modernity embracing science and tech as a means to reorder social & natural world
- It is seen as a faith in order and measurable progress thus killing space for local 'inexplicable' methods

2. Knowledge Worker
- One whose main capital is knowledge
- One who knows about their field of expertise and can apply them in real world context
- eg: Those in research, pharma, software engineers etc.

3. Why lunar missions land on lunar equator?
- Easier and safer due to terrain and temperature
- Even and smooth surface, fewer hills/craters
- Abundant sunlight for solar powered instruments
- Polar regions are difficult terrain, dark, and temperature hitting (-230 degree)
- Trivia: Moon's axis tilts only 1.5 degrees wrt plane of solar orbit (Earth 23.5 degrees) leading to no sunlight on the poles of moon (called Permanently Shadowed Regions)

Pre related
1. Arhar dal
- 150-180 days time, intercropped with soyabean, cotton, moong/urad
- Rain fed crop, grows mostly in KA-MH in India

2. Quick look at Defence Acquisition Council here

Quote

- "Indian subcontinent is a veritable popcorn kettle than can throw up many surprises"
- "Infrastructure creates form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way" - Paul Goldberger

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Why Turkey is opposing Sweden's bid to join NATO? [quick read to know issue]
2. Moon's south pole: why Chandrayaan-3 will go where no craft has
3. Next tango in Paris

TH
1. [Imp for solutions: Read Harnessing gender dividend para] Demographic transition and change in women's lives
2. What's legal row b/w farmers and PepsiCo? [read just Gist]
3. What we lose when we work with giant AI like ChatGPT [read for fresher perspective]


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As CSAT becomes game of luck more than skill, the new cut off with 28% GST is 47.52 not 66 😂

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🚨July 13 2023 | Thursday🚨

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1. Quiet Diplomacy

Called 'softly softly' approach to influence behaviour of other state via secret negotiations or by refraining from acting a specific way.

2. 28% tax on online gaming. What's the matter? Details here for UPSC Mains/Interview opinion

Quotes
- "Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without" by Confucius
- Whenever we dialled international emergency number India has been first responder Maldives Foreign Minister Shahid

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Tied by security
[Just keep reading India-France articles without worrying about notes. I am collecting all articles on PM in France to create a one stop blog post for India-France relations like India-US. ]
2. Anthropocene
3. Moon missions, compared [rough read, don't lose sleep over this]

TH
1. Loot, intransigence, and the darkening of a colonial blot [fun solutions for GS1 culture way forward]
2. Quiet diplomacy could ease South China Sea tensions [Read as a story for better understanding]
3. How CPI basket conceals inflation picture [GS3: Economics, IMP]
4. Partial app bans [understand intricacies of policy and tech involved]
5. What's NRF? [5-7 good articles on this, will compile soon on blog]
6. IIP rises 5.2%, led by infra [pg14]


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The 28% tax on face value in gaming industry is making news.

What does this mean?

Understand it with an example

- Presently, 18% tax paid by gaming companies on 'platform fee'

- Say, 10% is platform fee. Of ₹100 taken from user, companies make ₹10 and pays 18% GST on this ₹10 (i.e. ₹1.8)

- With 28% GST on 'face value', the tax would be on entire ₹100.

- This means, tax that is ₹1.8 presently would be ₹28🤯

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🚨July 14 2023 | Friday🚨

- Fluvial Memory
The memory of the waterbodies in fluvial plains (as Yamuna 'reclaims' Red fort, its Fluvial memory brought it back)

- Revise Geological Survey of India here

Quote
India is not just mother of democracy but also a model of diversity - PM Modi

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Bombay HC comments no age of consent (Page 11)
2. Mapping the spending (take an idea)

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Love the energy today on Chandrayaan 🥰

As a nation, we’ve faced a lot

From ‘land of snake charmers’ to years of colonialism,
Demeaned for our culture to sanctions for nuclear tests. A lot!

From there to celebrating Science, we’ve come a long way :,)

Jio Bharat. Jio! 🇮🇳

Note👇🏼
From UPSC perspective, this is Article 51A(h)

Fundamental duty to develop the scientific temper. (Can’t help or ignore giving UPSC Perspective. You’re welcome 🤪)