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🚨September 08 2023 | Friday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Proliferation Financing
N. Korea's reliance on arms sale to fund its (nuclear) weapons development

2. G2-A2
• G2: Sino-US rapprochement
• A2: Sino-India deal as part of broader Asia-for-Asian agreement

3. Heat Index aka Apparent temperature

- Measure of how temperature feels to humans after taking into account the relative humidity & air temperature
- High humidity during heatwaves lead to heat stress (i.e.body unable to get rid of heat leading to increased heart rate) & heat related health issues in humans


Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in the answers)

1. Lyngdoh Committee recommendations read here


Quote(s)💭

- Language is a vehicle to transfer information, ideas and emotions.
- Dialogue and diplomacy form the only path to resolution


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE

1. Critical for green future (Good conclusion by minister)
2. Without sperm/egg, how scientists grew whole model of human embryo (GS3 SnT)

TH (2 Good articles on Koreans today)

1. Disappearing languages, vanishing voices (V. IMP for GS1 Culture)
2. Finding Seoul in Indo-Pacific (Note how RoK is finding its place in global diplomacy)
3. Impact of RBI's lending guidelines
4. Ukraine war: the issues with Russia’s arms purchases from North Korea
5. Providing support to women dealing with the unbearable pain of vaginismus (Recommended to all women)


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India to open embassy in Dili, Timor Leste; a small country to the east of Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia

A fresh decision taken up as PM was at ASEAN

Thinking of hosting a book club Meetup around Karol Bagh in Delhi.

I feel aspirants shall take small breaks regularly. Such Meetup will offer excellent opportunity for all to come together.

Still planning, react ❤️ if you will want to join to meet people and talk about books 😄

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🚨September 09 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. India working towards brighter future by:
- Galvanising green initiatives as One Earth
- Promoting inclusive growth as One Family
- Synergising technology for One Future

2. Rip and Replace project (US)
Mandates US companies tear out telecom equipment made by Chinese firms (India already did this with launch of 5G)

3. 4Cs pushing negative sentiments
COVID19, Conflict, Climate Change, Cost of living Crisis

4. Uniform, Unified and zero tolerance approach to terror


Pre related🗒

1. Wagh Nakh
• Tiger claws of Shivaji maharaj used to kill Afzal Khan
• To be brought back from the U.K. by MH Govt.


Quote(s)💭

- Music expresses that which cannot be put into the words Victor Hugo


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Agents of global well being (Health Policy & IR)
2. Takeaways from the thali economics (read for an idea)

TH
Can skip reading today

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🚨September 10 2023 | Sunday🚨

100k+ aspirants have read the G20 story, have you?

Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. Badai Bazaar in Malappuram (GS1)
A 'badai' place for elderly to come and chat with their friends, Badai means bragging or boasting

Quote(s)💭

• "We believe that connectivity is the source not only for fostering trade but also trust" - Narendra Modi


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Page 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13 (Run your eyes through the basics for G20, don't lose sleep over it)

TH
1. Page 6, 7, 13 (basic read, don't lose sleep over it)
2. Scientists grow a model of human embryo in lad
3. Southeast Asia’s source of stability (ASEAN)

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🚨September 11 2023 | Monday🚨


Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. India Stack
Set of open APIs & Digital Public Goods that aim to unlock economic primitives of identity, data and payments at population scale

2. Harambee
Swahili word for cooperation (use in context of AU @G20 driven by India)


Pre related🗒

1. African Union
• 55 member Intergovernmental org estd 2002 as successor to Organisation of African Unity (OAU estd 1963)
• Secretariat: Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
• GDP: ~$3bn w/ 1.4bn population

• Objectives
- Achieve greater unity & solidarity b/w African countries & people
- Accelerate socio-economic & political integration of the continent
- Foster peace, stability & security across the continent
- Protecting & promoting human rights

Achievements
- Peacekeeping missions helped governments tackle terrorism
- Prevented violence in major parts
- African continent FTA 2021

2. Urali tribe
A backward tribe of Kerala

Quote(s)💭

• Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy - Newton
• Indian constitution is an outcome of a political movement
• Cotton, like coconut, is source of 3F: Food, Feed & Fibre


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Build awareness through Pg8,
2. An unforgettable Presidency (read for achievements)
3. Bringing Africa in (beautiful & imp pov)
4. India's falling cotton production: the causes of worry, and the solutions (Imp for GS3)
5. What's PGII? (Imp quick read)

TH
1. Quick read via pg8 & pg9
2. Redouble efforts to reduce disaster risks (GS3 Disaster)
3. On the crime of 'false promise to marry' (GS2, IMP read)


Good conclusion for ONOE

The ONOE will become meaningful if ON is understood in its political cultural diversity & OE is envisaged as one of the tools to address the moral political decline of our political class


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🚨September 12 2023 | Tuesday🚨

100k+ aspirants have read the G20 story, have you?


Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Gresham’s law

• Bad money drives out good
• Comes into play when exchange rate b/w two moneys or currencies is fixed by govt at a certain ratio that is different from market exchange rate
• Currency whose value is fixed at value below market rate go out of circulation (undervalued currency)
• Overvalued currency on the other hand doesn’t find enough buyers
• Eg: SL govt fixing 200 as price of USD in SL currency (bad money) drove out Dollar from institutional market (good money)

2. Thier’s law
• Good money drives out bad
• Complementary to Gresham’s law
• eg: crypto issues by private producers (good money) driving out govt issued Fiat (bad money)

3. Checkout picoflare jets here


Quotes💭

• Startups and MSMEs are natural engines of growth. They’re key to socio economic transformation by driving innovation and creating employment


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Love for Maths, ISRO job: what drove 2 women behind sun, moon missions (beautiful story)
2. Cautiously on AI (focus on last paragraphs)
3. Why Morocco earthquake is so devastating? (Read to understand geographic compulsions of Northern Africa)
4. What has triggered mutual funds surge (pg13)

TH
1. The signals from this ‘Made in China’ smartphone story (focus on US-China comparison)
2. On china’s economic slow down (start with reading the gist and last paragraph of article first)
3. Gresham’s law (pg9)
4. The physics of letting waves go one way but not the other (pg11)



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There comes a point in UPSC aspirant’s life where we realise we missed on young life experience.

We did not travel places,
We did not meet friends,
We did not make friends,
We did not earn money

Unfortunately, the aspirant to officer journey is not reaching a conclusion, either.

Such a realisation is scary.
You feel something drop in stomach
You feel legs weaker and gut cries

The parents are older, maybe even retired
It feels worthless to be a burden on them

Honestly, I’ve been there
More often than you think!

Despite cracking good exams and even cracking army recruitment (missing medical) I had felt I’m good for nothing.

If you’re relating to this story, I’ve just one thing to tell you (from experience)

Bhai sunn, Darr matt.

Side me kuch shuru kar. Time badlega. Tune mehnat ki hai imaandaari se toh darr matt.

Thoda si mehnat aur bass. Direction redesign kar, sab hoga. Upskill kar khud ko, bal buddhi vidya teeno par focus kar.

Tu bass darr matt!

If you are writing Mains this year, know that some part of this win is luck 💁🏻‍♂️

Give it your all

Just one more week, don’t let your guard down😄

Fight hard. Fight strong.💪🏻

If you aren’t, know that this year was unlucky for many. Hold tight!

Trust your Bal. Buddhi. Vidya.🫡

CSEWhy BookClub is happening again in Delhi.

Guess what? It’ll happen more often now! (Entry only by invite)

When? 04:30-06:30 pm on Sept 14 (tomorrow)
Where? Karol Bagh, Delhi (exact location to be sent with invite)

How to get an invite?

Fill this form 👇🏼

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🚨September 13 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Green water
Rainfed soil moisture tapped by food & cash crops

2. Blue water
Water in rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and groundwater

• 75% of footprint in India is green water.

Pre related🗒

1. Stitched Ship

• Wooden boat built by carvel with planks stitched together with cords/ropes
• These went out of order since they could not take canon recoil shots
• Govt. of India now reviving the culture in name of ancient heritage


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Africa at high table
2. Why’s diesel fuel under pressure?
3. G20s climate action promise
4. High inflation falling consumer segment: Double whammy

TH
1. Drop the bad idea of simultaneous elections (ONOE counter)
2. Spotlighting another broader point, the rogue channel (GS3 Security)
3. Climate phenomenon and food security (focus on El Niño impacts on agri & monsoon)
4. A canvas of racism, sexism: When AI reimagined global health (Must read, imp for GS4 ethics)


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🚨September 14 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Sustainable biofuels
Produced from crop residues and other wastes, with low water and GHG footprint.

2. Medicane
Tropical like cyclone occasionally forms over Mediterranean

3. Supply chains
Global production networks, production fragmentation, or global value chains (related to location of stages of production


Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in the Mains answers)

1. Causes of Libyan floods
• Extreme Weather
• Vulnerable geography
• Crumbling infrastructure


Pre related🗒

1.Nipah
• Zoonotic disease
• Transfers from animals or contaminated food or peer to peer
• animal host: Fruit bat🦇 aka flying fox

2. Places in news:
Derna, port city of Libya, in news for floods


Quotes💭

1. Ethics is knowing the difference the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do - Potter Stewart

Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. India’s supply chain opportunity (IMP read, make 1 page note)
2. Nipah: deadly virus
3. One big fat election

TH
1. The complex path to biofuel sustainability (note challenges in biofuel production in 🇮🇳)
2. Analysing the Global Stocktake Report (read for the awareness on issue, notes not needed)
3. Aditya­L1 mission pursues the enigma of space weather (explains purpose of Aditya L1 in detail)


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A visual note on Generations of Biofuel by PMF IAS.

Read :)