Independence is an expensive affair. It costs a fortune to keep ourselves ‘free’ while striving towards greatness, as a country. 😄

Cherish this gift from our previous generations and be grateful as we enter next year of freedom ❤️

Happy Independence Day, friends. Jai Hind 🇮🇳

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🚨August 15 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. Sangacchadwam
An expression to reflect moving forward together, a Sanskrit expression

2. Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas, Sabka Prayas
An expression by GoI to take a collaborative approach incorporating all sections of the society

3. Lagrange Points
Referred to be parking spots in space because gravitational pull of celestial objects equals force required to keep it in an orbit

Mains Keys🗝
(Use in answers as examples)

1. Democracy in ancient India (examples)

• Rig Veda mentions Gramini, a village head employed by king for civil & military purposes
• Atharva Veda mentions sabha, samiti, babhapati and sabkasad
• Buddhists had sanghas and Vinay Pitaka had references to democratic procedures regulating meetings of monks
• Gana Sanghas, as described by Greeks in India, had an elected raja who reported to the assembly
• Arthashastra offers comprehensive account of village admin
• Evidences of Village panchayats seen in Chola and Mauryan rule


Pre related📝

1. Aditya L1
• First space based Indian Observatory to study sun
• Won't actually go to sun but create space observatory at a point from where sun can be observed even during eclipses
• L1 suffix reflects the Lagrange point that Aditya will be sitting at!
• It is in collab with multiple educational and research institutes across the country
• AIM:
- To study solar corona, solar emissions, solar winds & flares, Coronal Mass Ejections (CMS)
- To carry out solar imagine round the clock

(Note: Closest man made object to sun was Parker Probe from NASA)

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Quote(s)💭

• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious than to be able to decide - Napoleon Bonaparte
• What the west considered our Achilles heel, i.e. our diversity, has proven to be India's greatest strength


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Judges will instil confidence when their actions..... (pg1, by CJI)
2. Take our campuses to world (IMP article by a Dean of IIT-M)
3. Why doctors are protesting rule to prescribe generic drugs (learn the issue)
4. Wildfires in Hawaii kill 96: What's happening (note diff impacts of wildlife fires)
5. Behind TN vs Centre over NEET, a larger equity & federalism battle (learn the issue)

TH
1. The new bills to overhaul criminal laws


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Lagrange Points location. Aditya will be at L1

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India isn’t only country celebrating Independence on Aug 15.

Who else?

• Bahrain 🇧🇭
• South Korea 🇰🇷
• Liechtenstein 🇱🇮
• Republic of Congo 🇨🇩

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🚨August 16 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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1. Cauvery issue: revise here

Quotes

• Democracy is eternal and human. It dignifies the human being; it respects humanity - Thomas Mann
• If nature is determined to send a message, policymakers lack the literacy to read that message

Reading Recommendations

IE
- All 5 articles on Page 12

TH
1. Consumption-based poverty estimates have relevance [GS3: Eco]
2. Myanmar junta's empty gestures [GS2: Indian neighborhood]
3. Analysing crisis of democracy in post-colonial countries [IMP for PSIR students, make a page note]
4. Bindeshwar Pathak biography (pg10)
5. SC plans expansion of infra, e courts (pg12)


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🚨August 17 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻
1. e-Bus
Any bus whose propulsion and accessory systems are powered exclusively by zero-emission electricity source

Pre related📝
1. PM e-Bus Sewa
• Cities of 3 lac population to be covered w/ 10 year bus operations support
• 2 sub schemes: City Bus services (169 cities) & Green Urban mobility (181 cities)
• City Bus services: 10k e-buses on PPP model
• Green Urban mobility: Green initiatives in urban mobility with centre offering subsidies and state managing operations
• Priority to cities w/ no organized bus service
• All capital of UTs, NE & hills to be included

2. National Tiger Conservation Authority
• Statutory body u/ MoEFCC w/ HQ at New Delhi
• estd 2005 u/ Wildlife Protection Act 1972 (2006 amendment)
• Managing authority of Project Tiger & India's Tiger Reserves

3. Forest Survey of India
• National org to assess and monitor forest resources of Indian regularly
• estd. 1981 w/ HQ at Dehradun u/ MoEFCC
• Scientific body that primarily deals with forest data

4. Wildlife Crime Control Bureau
• Statutory body u/ MoEFCC w/ HQ at New Delhi
• estd. u/ Wildlife Protection Act 1972
• It is an enforcement authority

5. Central Zoo Authority
• Statutory Body u/ MoEFCC w/ HQ at New Delhi
• estd. 1992 u/ WPA 1972, chaired by Envt Minister
• Purview limited to functioning of the zoos

6. U20
• Estd. 2018 u/ G20
• Aim: To generate discussion among G20 members on urban issues
• First chair: Buenos Aires; current chair: Ahmedabad
• Ahmedabad took over chairmanship from Jakarta

7. Triton Island
• Location: South China Sea
• Disputed between China, Vietnam and Taiwan
• In news for Chinese construction on the disputed island

8. Beach Towel Movement
• A movement in Greece 'reclaiming' the beaches 'acquired' by hospitality industry

Quote(s)💭

• Technology is advancing citizen empowerment and democracy that once drew their strength from constitution - Narendra Modi

Reading Recommendations🗞
IE
1. Why SC handbook on gender stereotypes matters?
2. India's new non-poor [understand basics]
3. IAF role in counter-insurgency: When Mizoram was bombed in 1966 [Know the issue]

TH
1. New bills and a principled course for criminal law reforms
2. Why is Bihar's caste based survey facing legal challenges? [read to learn about issue]


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🚨August 18 2023 | Friday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. P for Policy, Preschool and Potential
• A keyword for NEP related answers

2. Loya Jirga
• Pashto for 'grand council'
• A 'meeting' of elders in Afghanistan from various communities
• Not a permanent body but meets to 'solve' national issues since centuries
• Last convened to free 400+ Taliban fighters
• Decisions are not officially binding but its decisions are 'believed' to be final (nothing official but its will is considered will of people of Afghan)

Mains Keys 🗝
(use these as examples in GS answers)

1. Delhi to gets its first heat action plan (GS3 Disaster Management)
• Painting roofs white 'cool roofs'
• Schools not to function in noon
• Medical mobile vans in high heat risk areas

2. Israeli actor to debut in a Bollywood movie (GS2: India-Israel)
• Example of P2P connect b/w India-Israel
• Tsahi Halevi (Played Naor in Fauda) is the actor

3. Pig kidney works in donated human body (GS3 SnT)
• Use in SnT progress

4. Drones to monitor progress & quality of assets produced at MGNREGA sites
• Use as example in relevant answers

5. India tops AI projects in GitHub
• Use in answers related to demography, SnT and achievements of Indians wrt research

Pre related📝

1. Lakhota Lake: Located in Jamnagar
2. Gaganachukki waterfalls: Located in Mandya district of Karnataka on Cauvery
3. Vindhyagiri
• A warship of Navy
• Last in line of Project 17A

Quote(s)💭

• If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy - Napoleon Bonaparte

Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. One addict walks into Srinagar OPD (pg1, read for GS3 Internal Security)
2. In the forest, a transformation
3. Two years of Taliban rule (make a one page note of India's interests)
4. For 15-34 year olds top concern is...... (pg15, read for awareness)

TH
1. No more bulk SIMs (pg1)
2. P for Policy, Preschool and Potential (pg8: IMP)
3. Gaps in Birth and Deaths Registration (Amendment) Act [Hard to find such topics elsewhere, good read]


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🚨August 19 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. Prepare, Prevent and Respond
Mantra to prepare for the next health emergency (on lines of COVID)

2. Society 5.0
Japan’s vision sharing goal of tech self reliance and innovation driven growth (similar to Make in India)

3. Jobs Data Product (JDP)
A new term coined to reflect the jobs being produced in an economy with rise of GDP

4. Representative Economic Governance
A term signifying how global economies shall have proportionate ‘representative’ stake in the global economic governance (like at IMF)

5. 3D Printing aka additive manufacturing
A process using computer created designs to make 3D objects layer by layer


Mains Keys 🔑

1. Meghalayan Pineapples come with great taste and quality. Being sold abroad! (Example for GS3: Agri & Export)

2. India 3-D printed a post office in Bengaluru (GS3: SnT)

3. US, Japan and S.Korea to enter security pact for Pacific (GS2: International Relations)


Quote
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice - Henry Gates

Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. Incomplete settlement
2. Voice of global south (IMP)
3. How 3D printers work? (IMP)
4. Where prices are hurting? (GS3 Inflation)

TH
1. A ‘fab’ way to conduct India-Japan tech diplomacy


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🚨August 20 2023 | Sunday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. 4C Mantra to use tech in dealing with challenges of humanity on global level:
Conviction, Commitment, Coordination, and Collaboration

Mains Keys🔑
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. INS Vagir to reach Australia (GS2: IR)
• Maiden deployment of Indian Navy submarine

2. Robotaxi and driverless bus services in San Francisco
• Use in: GS1 Urbanization

Pre related📝

1. White bellied sea eagles
• Resident raptor distributed on sea coast of India from Mumbai to eastern Bangladesh
• Diurnal, monogamous, bird of prey
• IUCN: Least Concerned
• In news for making nests in powerlines in TN

2. Namoh 108
• A variety of Lotus with 108 petals
• Discovered in Manipur; used in making fibre

3. Bhashini: Revise here

Reading Recommendations🗞

TH
1. Wolf-rayet star is expected to produce a magnetar
2. Trial to test new path for preventing Alzheimer's
3. Turmeric supplements
4. Why's BRICS summit important for India?
5. The world of sugar
6. Myanmar's killing machine

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🚨August 21 2023 | Monday🚨

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Mains keywords✍🏻

1. Pre Green revolution, India was a ship to mouth economy (GS3 Economy)
• A reference to how we were importing even the basic food requirements

2. Marchetti Constant
• A metric to claim that most people in our cities have <30 mins commute (GS1 Urbanization)

3. Bottom Trawling
• Fishing practice that herds and captures target species by towing a net along ocean floor (see image in next message)
• Problematic for its negative impacts on ecosystem

Mains Keys
(Use in GS Mains answers)

1. Jugalbandi Chatbot
A ChatGPT powered tool to serve as universal translator in rural India (english -> native languages)

Quote(s)💭

• India executed a new economic recipe that believed there are no poor people, only people in poor places
• What IT is for India, Bt is for Bharat - Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• Foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology - Fareed Zakaria

Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. The hunger challenge (Read to form opinion)
2. Two freedoms (Beautiful article, must read)
3. How to heal Manipur (read this and then do use your imagination to come up with more solutions)
4. Jadavpur student's death: What apex court, UGC have said about ragging (Read to learn)
5. GE Mustard: Less pungent more useful (make a single page note in GS3 notes)
6. Why Hurricane Hilary, heading towards California is a rare storm (focus on reason they're rare para)
7. What Luna crash tells us about moon landings (read to acquaint self with history)

TH
1. Irrigation in focus as India moves towards driest ever August
2. The Katchatheevu controversy
3. How AI is used to increase frequency of Acoustic SCAs (V. Imp concept)


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bottom trawling (for reference)

Cheete Ki Chaal, Baaz Ki Nazar
aur Praggnanandhaa ke waar par kabhi sandeh nahi karte

(Look at focus in his eyes. Magical!❤️)

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🚨August 22 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻

1. Global Governance
A reference to the multilateral institutions to 'govern' the globe

2. Multiplier effect (in economy)
Every job created and every rupee invested in manufacturing has positive cascading effect on other sectors of economy

3. H100
High end Graphic Processing Unit chips in demand due to processing speed that LLM and Generative AI needs

Pre related📝
• Tagaeri and Taromenani indigenous groups of Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
• Mt. Vesuvius, a volcano of South Italy whose eruption in 79AD is mostly in news due to archaeological importance

Quote(s)💭

• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops - Henry adams
• Once you learn how to die you learn how to live - Morrie

Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Holes in financial safety net (read for awareness)
2. Nvidia's GPUs: hottest items in AI boom
3. Why global clothing retailers are exiting Myanmar (GS4 Ethics)
4. The crucial last 15 mins (read for awareness, interview type Qs from here)

TH
1. BRICS test for India's multipolarity rhetoric (Read for multi-dimensional opinion)
2. The Saudi-UAE divide becomes public (Analyze how it'll impact India)
3. Smartphone manufacturing in India (understand the issue)
4. Concerns of drilling in North sea (reading gist alone can help)


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🚨August 23 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏻

• Spiritual security
Knowing that your family will be there watching you


Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. NASA/ESA to support ISRO moon landing (GS2 IR & GS3 SnT)
• Ground stations of NASA, Antennas of ESA
• Deep space network of NASA offering telemetry & tracing coverage during descent

2. On resisting landslides (GS3 Disaster)

• Factors influencing landslides👇🏻
- Slope gradient, hill elevation, rock strength, forest cover, built up area
- Riverine flow, unconsolidated and semi-consolidated sediments

• Adopt these urgently 👇🏻
- Relevant sensor network, real time monitoring/analysis, AI/ML based early warning systems
- Barring heavy construction, proper drainage system, scientific slope cutting, strict building codes

3. Learn about New Car Assessment Programme here


Quote(s)💭

• On Chandrayaan3, It will be a small bounce for the lander, a giant surge for India
• If you are in a bad mood go for a walk, if you are still in a bad mood, go for another walk - Hippocrates


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. On Madras day, story behind city's founding & name (GS1 Culture/History)
2. What report on panel on stalled real estate projects has recommended (GS3 Infra )
3. Not the new NAM (IMP)

TH
1. On protecting biodiversity of NE (Checkout 'negative list' concept)
2. Understanding Luna25 failure (read gist)


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