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?

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Note: @CSEWhyBookClub Meetup tomorrow in Karol Bagh, Delhi. Fill this form to get an invite

🚨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.

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#UPSC Mains 2023 Essay Paper

Penning down topics here for you.

• 125 marks each
• Pick one from each section and write today in exam conditions
• Mail to whycse[at]gmail[dot]com for feedback

SECTION A

1. Thinking is like a game, it does not begin unless there is an opposite team

2. Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic,

3. Not all who wander are lost.

4. Inspiration for creativity springs from the effort to look for the magical in the
mundane.

SECTION B

1. Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands: to equally harmful disciplines.

2. Mathematics is the music of reason

3. A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

4. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in
school.

Note: Learn economy with fun comics here

🚨September 15 2023 | Friday🚨

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Pre related

1. National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG)

• National repository of data on cases instituted, pending, and disposed of by courts around the country
• A project under e-Courts program w/ database of 18k+ courts
• Works as monitoring tool to identify, manage, and reduce pendency of cases
• Helps in identifying bottlenecks in judicial processes
• Helps focus on certain areas of law (like family, land, etc)

2. International Organisation of Legal Metrology (OIML)

• estd 1955, HQ Paris
• standard setting body to develop model regulations, standard and related documents for use by legal metrology authorities and the industry
• Plays a crucial role in harmonising laws and regulations on performance of measuring instruments such as clinical thermometers, alcohol breath analysers, radar speed measuring instruments, ship tanks, and petrol dispensing units
• India became a member in 1956 and signed metric convention

OIML certificate

• single certificate accepted world wide
• eg: equipment manufacturer making digital balances in Noida willing to export it will have to go to any of 12 countries to get certificate. Now INDIA can issue & equipment will be exportable, acceptable to entire world

Benefits:
• earning forex
- As neighbours would come to us for OIML certificate
• increased exports
• Generate employment
• Reduce redundancy and save resources



Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Invent in India (reflection on ‘what shall be done’)
2. Terror in the valley (interesting pov)
3. Why Saudi Arabia Matters? (GS2 IR)

TH
1. Disentangling 2030 global renewable energy target (GS3 Environment)
2. Changing the way postman knocks (GS2 New bill)
3. PMMSY: bridging gaps in the fisheries sector (pg16)


PS: Did you download Ethics notes from my pinned message?

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If you want to explore writing about
• Books
• Stories of authors
• Offline communities

.. and related stuff, join me

Mail one liner intro describing your love for reading & writing to whycse@gmail.com

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🚨September 16 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Closing the taxation gap (on widening the tax base)
2. May all be free of illness
3. 2023 is so hot: a rare Pacific volcano could be a culprit (GS3: Environment)
4. Maratha Quota demand (GS1 Society)
5. In limbo: story of mega refiner that India, Saudi want to resuscitate

TH
1. A GM crop decision that cuts the mustard (a bit technical, focus on importance & implications)


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🚨September 17 2023 | Sunday🚨

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Mains Keywords

1. Biofuels

definition by Int’l Energy Agency👇🏼

“Liquid fuels derived from biomass and used as an alternative to fossil fuel based liquid transportation fuels such as gasoline, diesel and aviation fuels.”


Mains Keys
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. TrailGuard AI camera­ alert system (GS3: SnT (AI))

Use of AI in tiger zones as ‘AI cameras gun for poachers’

2. Solar­powered microfliers gather environmental data (GS3: SnT)

• Microfliers: Robotic designs floating like seeds
• New design for solar­powered, origami­based microfliers to collect & transmit environmental data
• Transmit data to nearby Bluetooth receivers for record keeping


Pre related

1. Places in news (ports)
• Haifa (Israel)
• Pi­raeus (Greece)

2. Bumblebee
• Bee genus important for pollination of crops in cold & temperate region of northern hemisphere
• 75% of those in Europe are threatened
• Habitat degradation & human impacted climate alteration are key drivers

3. Amigurumi dolls
• Crocheted dolls from Manipur


Reading Recommendations


1. Centre publishes disability database stripped of socio­economic figures (pg12)
2. Why Nipah outbreaks are happening only in Kerala?
3. Evasive nutritional support for TB patients
4. What is driving the Global Biofuels Alliance? (Make a 1 page note)
5. Why is Google on trial on trial in the US? (Imp)
6. Winds of change in global governance (carefully read this article, learn how essays are written for UPSC)


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🚨September 18 2023 | Monday🚨

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1. Moonquakes

Reasons for occurance
a) Temperature diff
• Moon temperature fluctuates b/w 122°C to -133°C
• This strain leads to seismic activities called moonquakes

b) Meteor striking lunar surface

2. PM Vishwakarma Scheme

• To enhance skills of workers & help them avail loans easily
• Workers will be registered via Common Services Centres using biometric based PM Vishwakarma portal
• Multiple incentives and benefits for the beneficiaries wrt loans, digital transactions & market support

3. Shantiniketan on UNESCO list

• estd 1901 by Rabindranath Tagore
• Set up as residential school for art based on ancient Indian traditions and a vision of unity of humanity transcending religious and cultural boundaries
• Exhibits crystallisation of their ideas of internationalism, humanism, inclusiveness, environmentalism, and pan Asian Modernism
• Visva Bharti: World university set up in 1921, PM is ex-officio chairman


Quote(s)
• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter - Martin Luthar King Jr.


Reading Recommendations

IE
1. LS is ageing, asking fewer questions, passing fewer bills (read 10 points for awareness on health of LS)
2. A time for South-South learning (5 imp points, make 1 page note in G20 notes)
3. The basmati success story (GS3 agri)
4. New Parliament's gates & their guardian (GS1 Culture)

TH
1. India is at a pivotal moment in its health-care journey (general article, read to hit refresh on memory)
2. Assessing outcomes of G20 summit (New Delhi declaration well summarized)
3. Why is the government pushing for regulatory mechanisms for OTT services? (extremely logical arguments here, must read)
4. Cats are hunting down India's birds: are we paying attention? (Unique problem, note trap-neuter-return strategy)


PS: Did you download Ethics notes from my pinned message?

Friends, I have compiled GS1, GS2, GS3, GS4 papers of 2023 UPSC Mains in one PDF.

Download & print this PDF to use it as questions papers for PYQs practice

Recommendation:
• Write GS1 & GS2 on September 23 and GS3 & GS4 on September 24 in real time exam conditions
• Mail your answers to whycse@gmail.com for evaluation.
• Deadline to mail: September 24 11:59pm

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