On days when light feels distant and earth seems to be still, take a step back.

Close your eyes.

Ask yourself:

Why are you doing what you are doing?
Why are you where you are?
What will make you feel better?

Then, slowly
Do things that will make you feel better, without fear!

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🚨September 30 2023 | Saturday🚨


Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Micro-marketing
Private sector version of 'targeted' subsidies; it is a way to focus on 'markets' in pockets personalizing the needs

2. Kill and dump
A strategy in Pak against Balochs where security personnel pick up activists, teachers, journalists etc. and torture them for information, shoot them and dump their bodies.

3. Illicit Markets
Illegal trade in drugs and arms


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. The threat from illicit trade (GS3 Economy & Internal security)
2. Pak bombing underlines why Balochistan remains its problem province
3. When Jugaad won't do (good pointers on moving away from the jugaad mindset

TH
1. Feud over grains (GS1 Caste)


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🚨October 01 2023 | Sunday🚨


Pre related

1. Moscow Format
• Objective: Facilitate national reconciliation process in Afghanistan to establish peace
• Includes: Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Iran & 5 central Asian countries

2. Project Udhbav
• Indian Army initiative to rediscover profound Indic heritage of statecraft and strategic thoughts


Reading Recommendations

TH
1. The concerns of using Aadhar in welfare (note the issues)
2. How important is first asteroid sample? (have covered most parts of this in a previous post, read last para)
3. Is there a TB drug shortage in India? (read just to be aware of the issue)
4. Asia's disputed waters (IMP)


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🚨October 2 2023 | Monday🚨


Mains keywords✍🏼

1. Spyware
• A malicious software designed to enter a device, gather sensitive data and forward it to a third party without user's consent
• Categorized as trojan, spyware, adware, tracking cookie and system monitors

2. Anticline
A ridge or fold of stratified rock in which the strata slope downwards from the crest


Pre related📄

1. Karman Line
• Line 100km above sea level
• Imaginary line demarcating earth's atmosphere from space
• An individual crossing this line is considered an astronaut
• Line demarcated in 1960s to regulate the airspace

2. Dept of Currency Management (RBI)
• The department responsible for design of rupee note


Quotes💭

• If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law - Winston Churchill


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. How Gandhi's image appeared on the Indian currency notes (read to know what all have been on INR notes)
2. Alarm over conocarpus, echo of faulty policies on invasive exotics (read for awareness on issue)
3. Protecting protected monuments (New way to look at heritage monuments underway)

TH
1. India's statistical performance on the global stage (read for awareness)
2. An ageing India needs age-responsive TB care (add to TB notes)
3. The largest climate action lawsuit against 32 countries (read the goals to know what EU faulted on)
4. Have household savings reduced? (start with reading the gist and see if you need to read whole based on your awareness)


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🚨October 3 2023 | Tuesday🚨

Pointers sharing implications of Bihar Caste Census on Indian Polity on the CSEWhy blog here

Pre related📄

1. Gandhi & Music
• Fav songs:
- Lead Kindly Light & Abide with me

• Hindi/Gujarati Bhajans
- Vaishnava jana toh taine kahie - Narsinh Mehta
- Ramdhun - Tulsidas's famed
- Ishawr allah tero naam composed by Pt. Vishnu Paluskar of Gwalior Gharana


Quote(s)💭

• To know music is to transfer it to life - Gandhi
• There can be no swaraj where there is no harmony, no music - Gandhi


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Canada's hollow moralpolitik (Read positive history of Ind-Can relations, GS2 IR)
2. A plan for the winter crop (read for awareness, GS3 Agri)
3. The helped protect the world from the coronavirus (read to revise types of vaccines, GS3 SnT)
4. 4 takeaways from Bihar survey (focus on 3rd point, GS2 Polity)

TH
1. Capturing the rains (read for an idea, GS3 Irrigation)
2. Building BRICS for the future (5 points for awareness, can also note, GS2 IR)
3. Counting deaths in prison (Something new, one seldom thinks about but imp)
4. Lagrange Points (science section, read for basic awareness; GS3 SnT)


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• set deadlines for self
• work on war footing

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Refuse to be still.
Refuse to be stuck.

Get up and Do it.
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🚨 October 4, 2023 | Wednesday 🚨

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Mains Keywords✍️

1. Circular Migration

Form of migration wherein people move to another place (destination country) and back (country of migration) as per employment availability


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

1. Mandatory oath against child labour in private and govt schools in Beed, Maharashtra - initiative by IAS (GS1 Society; GS2 Role of Civil Services)

2. Nanoparticles causing acute illnesses (GS3, S&T)


Pre-related📄

1. UMMEED
• Guidelines by MoE for suicide prevention
• Plan of action for schools

2. Revise UAPA here


Stats📈

• 107 MPs & MLAs have hate speech cases against them as in 2023: ADR (GS2, Polity)


Quote(s)💭

• All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life - Thomas Mann
• One good teacher is worth a thousand priests. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
• Courage is not the absence of fear, but its overcoming


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Stakes in Male (focus on para2, for (GS1, IR))
2. Historic with a small 'h' (GS1, Society)
3. Demand for jobs is falling, employment rate lower than in 2017 (Note the terms like LFPR, UER, ER (GS3, Economy)

TH
1. Using AI for audit techniques (Read to learn use of ethics AI in auditing (GS2, Polity))
2. The shutdown of the Afghan embassy (quick recap on India-Taliban relations, (GS2, IR))


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🚨 October 5 2023 | Thursday 🚨

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Mains Keywords✍

1. Climate 'polycrisis'
• Term by Adam Tooze
• Interconnected and compounding crises related to climate change that are affecting the planet not just in a few sectors but across several sectors and domains

2. Glacial Lakes
• Large bodies of water that sit in front of, on top of, or beneath a melting glacier
• Read about GLOF here

3. Carbon Accounting
• A way for companies to keep track of carbon they are producing, removing, storing and offsetting


Pre-related📄

1. Places in News
Lhonak Lake: North Sikkim

2. Revise ED here


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. A fraught border crossing (GS2, Diaspora)
2. Drawing lines in Cauvery waters (GS2, Polity)
3. Disaster in Sikkim: How do glacial lake outburst floods happen? (GS3, Disaster Management)

TH
1. Retribution for the south, accolade for the north (GS2, Polity)
2. Keeping tabs on carbon with an accounting system (GS3, Environment)
3. Women's quota, panchayats to Parliament (GS2, Polity, focus on impact of reservation)


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🚨 October 6 2023 | Friday 🚨

GS2 Notes on impact of Bihar caste survey here

Mains Keywords✍️

1. Green Drought

• Vegetation health & growth affected due to soil moisture stress
• May not lead to immediate visual sign of stress


Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. Delhi Police to install variable message signboards for live traffic data (tech based solution)


Pre-related📄

1. Tiangong
• China's self-built space station

2. Sammakka Saralamma Jatara
• Biennial festival in Melugu, Telangana
• Among the leargest gatherings of tribal people in world


Quote(s)💭

• India’s national unity can be viewed as a three-dimensional construct - of castes, religions and regions
• It is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years - Abraham Lincoln
• Opposition is not necessarily enmity - Sigmund Freud


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. Sikkim Warning (GS3, Disaster Management)
2. Value of their work (GS1, Society)
3. A bank for the future (GS2, Regulatory Bodies)
4. Nagorno-Karabakh confict and India (GS2, IR)
5. Delhi Liquor Case: ED charges against AAP leaders (GS2, Polity & Bodies)

TH
1. National unity, a three-dimensional view (GS1, Society)
2. Defusing the ticking time bomb called diabetes (GS2, Health)
3. Preparing for the grey, Page 11 (GS1, Society)


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🚨 October 7 2023 | Saturday 🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Can Do Spirit
• Reflected in Green Revolution by India


Mains Keys 🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. HCs to ensure hybrid mode hearings & be tech friendly (GS2, Judiciary & tech)


Pre-related📄

1. Second Thomas Shoal
• Located in South China Sea
• Disputed between China & Phillipines

2. Revise GRAP here


Quote(s)💭

• If India has a billion challenges, India also has a billion minds with the flame of innovation to overcome those challenges
• Farmers act as the pin that holds the world together


Reading Recommendations🗞

IE
1. He was a true 'Kisan Vigyanik'... , Page 7 (By PM Modi for MS Swaminathan)
2. What women need (GS1, Society)
3. The art of letting it be (GS3, Economy)
4. Status quo on key rate: What happens now? (GS3, Economy)
5. TRAI cannot regulate OTT, says Tribunal (GS2, Regulatory Bodies)

TH
1. Aligning higher education with UN SDGs (GS2, Education)
2. Two out of five amphibians facing extinction threat due to climate change, Page 10 (GS3, Environment)


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🚨 October 8 2023 | Sunday 🚨

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Mains Keywords✍🏼

1. Xenotransplantation
• Transplantation of animal organs into humans

2. Attosecond
• One Quintillionth of a second (10^-18 seconds)
• Used in understanding mechanisms governed by electrons

3. Quantum Dots
• A small assembly of atoms
• aka Artificial Atoms since the dot behaves like an atom in some circumstances
• The electrons in these atoms are tightly bound with little space to move around, thus displaying quirky effects of quantum mechanics


Pre-related📄

1.National Wildlife Week
• Celebrated from October 2-8

2. R21/MatrixM
• Malaria vaccine
• Developed by University of Oxford and Serum Institute of India
• Approved by WHO

3. Ganges River Dolphin
• National Aquatic Animal
• IUCN: Endangered
• Schedule 1, WPA 1972


Reading Recommendations🗞

TH
1. Bhutan-China border demarcation talks inching to completion (GS2, IR)
2. How plastics affect our daily life (GS3, Environment)
3. Signifiicance of quantum dots in nanotechnology (GS3, S&T)
4. Why did Hamas launch a surprise attack on Israel?, Page 13 (GS2, IR)


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