Tausif Ali | Story of Shami’s father

A dominant, passionate fast bowler in Amroha, Uttar Pradesh

Hailing from a farmer family, life was tough

Things happened and boom! He has to go back home

Leaving cricket forever, he ‘settles’

The dream dies and Tausif is now farming to raise his family

A few years and 4 sons later, he started training all of them himself

While he did that for almost a decade, one of them was exceptional

Tausif did not want to risk it with this ‘god-gifted’ child!

He packed bags to take him to Badruddin in Moradabad, a local famous coach

Badruddin made the chap bowl and damn! DID HE BALL WELL?

This child was indeed different!

His ups and down life put him to test many a times

But he came back, ALWAYS!
He is Shami. Muhammad Shami. ❤️

This Indian bowler who makes ball dance to his tunes like magic is sweats heavy in practice

Point being?

If you are stuck or feeling stagnant, know that you are not alone

It happens!

But what matters is how you bounce back.

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🚨 16 November 2023 | Thursday 🚨

Mains Keys 🗝

1. IPEF members (including India, US) ink IPEF Supply Chain Resilience Agreement to cut dependence on China (GS2, IR)

2. Worli Koliwada, Mumbai: 4 sq km radius where Hindus, Muslims & Christians have been cohabiting for centuries (GS1, Society)


Pre-related 📄

1. PM Janjati Nyaya Maha Abhiyan

• To ensure last-mile welfare scheme delivery & protection for PVTGs
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2. Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra

• A nationwide programme to reach out to all villages and include those eligible for various schemes


3. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

• 21-member ("economies"), regional economic forum estbd in 1989
• To leverage growing interdependence of Asia-Pacific for prosperity through regional economic integration
• India NOT a member, formally requested to join in 1991


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. Ease of control (GS2, Polity & Policy)
2. Say Indian cheese (GS1, Culture)
3. The cost of ambivalence (GS2, Policy)
4. To build tunnel, rock must be thoroughly examined (GS3, Infra)

TH
1. Life over death (GS2, Polity)
2. As Gaza war rages, waiting for the other shoe to drop (GS2, IR)
3. The price of persistent federal frictions(GS2,Polity)


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🚨 17 November 2023 | Friday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Hallucinate

• Novel usage in context of AI
• "When an artificial intelligence hallucinates, it produces false information"
• Why? AIs can learn from factually inaccurate sources or produce inaccuracies while processing

2. Gesture Politics
• Political actions or positions taken mainly to influence public opinion, typically requiring little effort or having no significant impact


Pre-related 📄

1. Chikangunya's 1st vaccine

• A disease characterised by severe joint pain and impaired mobility, plus fever
• Viral infection, transmitted by Aedes aegypti & Aedes albopictus
• Ixchiq: 1st vaccine approved by US's FDA


Quote(s) 💭

• When people throw stones at you, you turn them into milestones ~ Sachin Tendulkar


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. When Xi met Biden (GS2, IR)
2. Her knock on closed doors (GS2, Social Justice)
3. India and the US-China truce (GS2, IR)
4. Crime of 'adultery': What SC ruled and why (GS2, Policy)

TH
1. Widening divide (GS3, Internal Security)
2. Challenging the Electoral Bond Scheme (GS2, Polity)
3. Branded, generic and missing ingredient of quality (GS2, Health)
4. Should elections be funded? (GS2, Polity)
5. On the sub-categorisation within castes (GS2, Polity & Policy)


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13 Articles related to Constitutional Bodies

Find Mains PYQs in end to know how to use 'em


• A 76: AG

• A 148: CAG

• A 165: Advocate General (for states)

• A 243K: State EC

• A 263
Inter state council

• A 279A
GST Council (via 101 Amendment Act)

• A 280
Finance Commission

• A 315-323
UPSC/State PSC

• A 324: ECI

• A 338: NCSC

• A 338A: NCST

• A 338B: NCBC (via 102nd Amendment Act)

• Article 350B
Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities


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a) "The Attorney-General is the chief legal adviser and lawyer of the GoI. Discuss" (UPSC CSE Mains 2019)

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b) Discuss the role of the NCBC in wake of its transformation from a statutory body to a constitutional body. (UPSC CSE Mains 2022) (8/8)

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🚨 18 November 2023 | Saturday 🚨

Pre-related 📄

1. Global South Summit

• Second edition being held in India
• Theme: "Together, for Everyone's Growth, with Everyone's Trust"
• To share key outcomes from G20 meetings in India


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. High and Low (GS2, Polity)
2. A stake in stability (GS2, IR)
3. COP28 in Dubai: What to expect from climate meeting (GS3, Environment)
4. The new flare-up in Myanmar (GS2, IR; focus on impact on India)
5. Proposed India-UK FTA (GS2, IR)

TH
1. Building the floor (GS2, IR)
2. The geopolitical fallout of the Israel Hamas war (GS2, IR)
3. State of economy - temper the euphoria (GS3, Economy)


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Note: Revise Articles of Constitution related to State Executive here

🚨 19 November 2023 | Sunday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Neuropeptides

• Signalling molecules in brain that regulate many physiological functions, including digestion, metabolism and sleep


Mains Keys🗝

1. AI-powered chemist makes oxygen from Martian meteorites and AI-powered (better, faster & more accessible) weather forecasting performed from Google (GS3, S&T; Applications of AI)


Pre-related 📄

1. Kadalundi Mudflat Ecosystem

• Located in Kozhikode, in estuary of Kadalundipuzha river
• Under threat: Shrinking and hence depriving prey to thousands of migrant shorebirds
• Kadalundi-Vallikunnu Community Reserve: Being popularised for ecotourism by widening expanse of mangroves


Reading Recommendations 🗞

TH
1. Why has the China-Pakistan corridor stalled? (GS2, IR)
2. Why are people fleeing Myanmar for Mizoram? (GS3, Internal Security; focus on implications on NE India)
3. Limited peace, unlimited tensions (GS2, IR; GS3, Border Management)


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🚨 20 November 2023 | Monday 🚨

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Mains Keyword(s) ✍️🏼

1. Hard Currency

• Widely accepted around the world for international transactions
• Considered a reliable and stable store of value
• Reflects perceived stability, reliability & economic strength of its issuing country


Mains Keys🗝
(Use as examples in Mains answers)

1. Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas, the 'Mo School' Abhiyan and 5T- High School Transformation Programme (GS2, Education)

2. Amazon aiming to master mobility & manipulation inside warehouse with the help of robots (GS3, S&T)


Pre-related 📄

1. Chimaeras

• A genetic chimaera is a single organism composed of cells of more than one distinct genotype (or genetic makeup)
• They occur when the genetic material in one cell changes and gives rise to a clonal population of cells different from all the other cells
• Potential application: Growing organs for transplant

2. Freemartins

• These are sterile female cattle that result from the twinning of a male and a female within same uterus

3. Onattukara Sesame

• GI tagged, grown in Kerala
• Contains high levels of Vitamin E & antioxidants


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. Drug Detox (GS2, Health)
2. A plan to manage stubble (GS3, Agriculture)
3. Digging our way to prosperity (GS3, Economy)
4. Why HC struck down Haryana's private sector job quote (GS2, Polity & Policy)
5. The other oil imports (GS3, Economy)

TH
1. Steering road safety in India back onto the right lane (GS2, IR)
2. The role of the Governor in legislature (GS2, Polity)


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🚨 21 November 2023 | Tuesday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Hidden/Invisible Disabilities

• Conditions not visibly apparent to others, limiting attention to individual's needs
• Examples: Certain chronic illnesses, mental health conditions, cognitive impairments
• Initiative: Sunflower themed merchandise to be available at Delhi Airport for such passengers

2. Collaborative Defence

• Military partnership with scientists, academics, technologists, etc


Pre-related 📄

1. Tantalum

• A rare metal used in manufacturing of electronic components
• Detected in Sutlej river sand in Punjab


Quote(s) 💭

• I really think a champion is defined not by their wins, but how they recover when they fall ~ Serena Williams


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. Before the next deluge (GS2, Policy)
2. Governor's role in passing bills (GS2, Polity)
3. In building Himalayan tunnels, support and monitoring key (GS3, Infra)

TH
1. A fact check unit that is unconstitutional (GS2, Polity)
2. A renewed focus on emerging technologies (GS3, S&T)
3. How free cancer care alone won't help fight against career in India (GS2, Health)


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🚨 22 November 2023 | Wednesday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Materialism

• Origin of everything that really exists is matter
• In India: Lokāyata, Chárváka, Bhautikvad, Jadavāda, Dehātmavāda

2. Transmission of monetary policy

• Pass-through of central bank's interest rate hikes to consumers by banks


Mains Key(s) 🗝

1. SATHEE Portal: A free online learning platform for inclusive, high quality education to remote parts also (GS2, Education; GS3 Inclusive Growth)


Pre-related 📄

1. Aurora Borealis

• Also called Northern Lights
• Caused by coronal ejections on the sun


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. On our terms, in our time (GS2, IR)
2. The courageous banker (GS3, Economy)
3. App Mishap (GS3, Economy)
4. Leaning towards optimism (GS3, Economy)
5. Another seat at the table (GS2, Social Justice)
6. Fight against climate change (GS3, Environment)

TH
1. Alarming countdown (GS3, Environment)
2. Recognising the impact of climate change on health (GS2, Health; GS3, Environment)
3. India, Japan converge in Southeast Asia (GS2, IR)
4. The OECD report on climate finance (GS3, Environment)
5. Coal isn't easy to exclude from sustainable development (GS3, Economy & Environment)


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🚨 23 November 2023 | Thursday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Deed of Familial Association

• Judicial innovation by Madras HC
• To provide legal status to relationships between same sex couples & other LGBTQIA+ couples
• Not a new legal institution of marriage, but a procedure to register such a contract


Pre-related 📄

1. Ghol Fish (Black-Spotted Croaker)

• Declared Gujarat's state fish
• Found in regions from Persian Gulf to Pacific Ocean
• Has medicinal value also, hence huge market in China & other countries


2. Methane

• Occurs abundantly in nature as primary component of natural gas
• 2nd largest contributor to climate change
• Remains in atmosphere for only 10 years
• Warming effect 28 times greater than CO2
• Major sources: Agriculture (Livestock & rice cultivation), Energy sector (leaks), Discarded HH waste etc


Quote(s) 💭

• It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognise, accept and celebrate those differences ~ Audre Lorde


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. A way out of the dark (Read for awareness)
2. A tentative pause (GS2, IR)

TH
1. Listen to the people, not the numbers (GS3, Economy)
2. Ethics and epistemology of ancient Indian Materialists (GS1, Art & Culture; GS4, Ethics)


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🚨 24 November 2023 | Friday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍️🏼

1. Japanese Society

• Hikikomori: A form of severe social withdrawal, people have not left their homes for years
• Kodokushi: Lonely deaths; Dead people are discovered in tiny apartments days/weeks after death


Quote(s) 💭

• Modern civilisation has put a price even on air ~ Mahatma Gandhi
• Truth never damages a cause that is just ~ Mahatma Gandhi


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. Engaging with APEC (GS2, IR)
2. For a breath of fresh air (GS3, Environment)
3. How the new IRRA platform, a 'trapeze net' for investors, will work (GS3, Economy)
4. How farm fires are counted (Focus on institutions mentioned & data's limitations)
5. How suicide of farmer in Kuttanad frames the crisis of paddy in Kerala (GS3, Agriculture)

TH
1. A $5 trillion economy, but for whom? (GS3, Economy)
2. COP28: India's equity demand (GS3, Environment)


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🚨 25 November 2023 | Saturday 🚨

Pre-related 📄

1. Rare Disease

• One with prevalence less than 1 case per 1,000 population


Quote(s) 💭

• In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches ~ Paul R Ehrlich


Reading Recommendations 🗞

IE
1. The forgotten citizens (GS3, Economy)
2. Not green vs poor (GS3, Environment)
3. Sickle cell breakthrough (GS2, Health)

TH
1. Need for climate-smart agriculture in India (GS3, Environment)
2. No vote for veto (GS2, Polity)


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🚨 26 November 2023 | Sunday 🚨

Mains Keywords ✍🏼

1. Vishwamanava

• Idea by Kannada poet Kuvempu
• Education's task is to make one 'univeral human being'


Pre-related 📄

1. Kambala

• Traditional, folk sport born of agrarian practices of coastal Karnataka
• Involves slush track buffalo race
• Captured in Kantara movie

2. Amplifi 2.0

• Assessment & Monitoring Platform for Liveable, Inclusive & Future-ready urban India
• To make available raw data from Indian cities for data-driven policymaking
• By Ministry of Urban Affairs


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