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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
No other reco. Skip India-UAE articles, will compile them in a blog. Subscribe with email here

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]
6. Good articles on India-French relations, I will compile UPSC notes from 15+ articles on the blog. Subscribe with email here

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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🚨July 18 2023 | Tuesday🚨

Reading Recommendations

Both newspapers have note on UCC today. Skip them, I'd compile notes from 25+ articles on the blog.
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IE
1. BIMSTEC
2. To the moon and back (beautiful story)
3. City, interrupted (GS1 Urbanization)
4. Will share notes from 12+ articles on India-French relations on the blog soon

TH
1. Dispute settlements that have no parallel (GS2)
2. Risk of small states' heavy reliance on union (develop an understanding)
3. How are Cheetahs fairing in India?
4. Rupee Dirham deal is bilateral (pg12)

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🚨July 19 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Mains Keywords

1. Three 'Mutual' for India-China relations:
Mutual respect ✊, Mutual Sensitivity 🤝, Mutual Interest 💼


Pre-related ℹ️

1. Agartala city name 🌆
- Agar is also called black gold
- Named after 'Agar', a wood derived from agar trees
- Oil & perfumes made from Agarwood is one of the costliest natural products in the world

2. Alzheimer's 🧠
- Alzheimer's is the most common type of dementia
- Involves brain parts controlling thought, memory, etc.
- Starts with mild memory loss leading to loss of awareness
- Important drugs: Aducanumab, Lecanemab, and Doneanemab

3. Rudragiri's 13th-century Caves 🏞
- Nestled amidst Eastern Ghats w/ 5 naturally formed rock shelter caves
- Served as living quarters for the people during the Mesolithic age around 5000 BC
- Luminous rock paintings from the era seen depicting events of Ramayana

4. Universal Postal Union 📮
- 2nd oldest int'l organisation worldwide w/ HQ @Bern, Switzerland
- Estd. 1874, a UN agency to coordinate postal policies among member nations in addition to the worldwide postal system (India member since 1876)
- Any UN member can become UPU members 🌐
- Mandate:
a) set rules for int'l mail exchanges ✉️🌍
b) make recommendations to stimulate growth in mail, parcel, and financial services 💼

Reading Recommendations 📚

IE
1. Delhi is raising the game [Imp] 📈
2. An economy more future-ready [Imp] 🌐
3. New opportunities, old issues [rough read to look at India-SL relations]
4. Why Kuno cheetahs are at risk due to radio collars [Imp] 🐆

TH
1. A push for GM mustard disregarding science, the law [Imp] 🌱
2. India-UAE trade, all comprehensive notes for UPSC on blog 🇮🇳🤝🇦🇪


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