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 🤪)

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🚨July 15 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Mains Keywords

1. Sponge Cities
Cities using green roofs to slow down run-off into drains, urban forests to enable percolation, groundwater recharge and wetlands to absorb and reuse two-thirds of their water.

2. Blue-Green-Grey Infrastructure
- Blue-Green infra: natural water cycle orientation bringing water management and green infra together
- Grey Infra: Human-manufactured approaches to water management including pipes/hard surfaces
- The idea is to integrate the two for better water management system

Quote

- "In the initial stages, India's space programme was not only a technological programme but almost a sociological programme" - Prof Yash Pal

- "Space is no longer a benign exercise in the pursuit of science. It has important strategic, economic and even military dimensions"

- "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you" - Maya Angelou (can be a good essay topic)

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Moon is a milestone (Read to know how to determine flow of an essay)
2. Living with the Deluge (Make 1 page note of 5 pointers here; GS1 Urbanization)
3. New in Chandrayaan-3: key upgrades (rough read to know what's new)

TH
No recos today

You can skip all India-France Articles. I will share compiled UPSC relevant notes from 15+ articles on my blog soon


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🚨July 16 2023 | Sunday🚨

Mains Keywords

Productivity Inequality
ChatGPT has reduces this offering better productivity in professional writing/image space

Multi-polar complexities
A good keyword to reflect current state of chaos in the world

Collective security
A formula at heart of NATO's alignment where one member's war is NATO's war

Pre related

1. Revise Polio here and make a one page note

2. Revise International Energy Agency here in detail

Reading Recommendations

IE
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TH
1. Why's there controversy on forest bill? [take an idea]


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🚨July 17 2023 | Monday🚨

Collection of persons
Used in context of defamation against 'collection of persons' u/ section 499 of IPC

MAID
Medical Assistance in Dying (related to euthanasia and GS4 ethics debate)

Pre related

Hoolock Gibbon

- Only ape found in India, it has no tail
- Native to east Bangladesh, NE India and SW China
- Schedule 1 of Wildlife Protection Act 1972
- Two types:
a) Western Hoolock Gibbon
- inhibits all states of NE
- restricted largely b/w south of Brahmaputra and east of Dibang river(s)
- IUCN: Endangered

b) Eastern Hoolock Gibbon
- Parts of Arunachal & Assam in India
- IUCN: Vulnerable

Quotes

- France has come to the informed conclusion that no global problem can be tackled meaningfully without India's participation

- Floods are acts of God but flood losses are largely acts of man

- Now, I am become death, the destroyer of worlds

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. She's 47, anorexic and wants help dying; Canada will soon allow it [Pg4, Ethics GS4 Case study]
2. Aiming for equality [read to form an opinion]
3. Together we move [GS2 IR, take note of infra projects b/w India-Bangladesh]
4. Save the water [GS3 DM, Add structural/non-structural solutions to your notes]
5. More cash and less grain [GS3 PDS, Away from politics, read this for practical pov]
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TH
1. The Ukraine counter-offensive, a reality check [good points made wrt war, read to form opinion]
2. On RaGa's conviction [SC cases heavy article, read for what SC said for awareness and not to remember the cases alone]
3. How gaps in cloud system configuration could expose sensitive user data [basic SnT, make a note if the need be!]
4. Lightning not a natural disaster, says Centre [GS3: Disaster Management]


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