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🚨 August 18, 2022 : quick notes🚨

1. Taiwan crisis- Stanly John’s article of TH: read it for good insight

China’s military endeavours are aimed at garnering regional hegemony. Regional hegemony to global superpower

use in
- GS2: International relations

2. Data legislation’s

- India’s data for India’s development

- Countries like US, South Africa, Indonesia, India, Indonesia strive to Protect, Monetise & Leverage data collected within their territories for domestic purposes

use in
GS3: infrastructure & related legislation, digital India, Indian economy

quote
Of all the aspects of social misery, nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment

reading recommendations

- Alex Ellis’s (British High Commissioner to India) article in IE relevant to Indian Diaspora GS2
- Arctic amplification explainer in TH




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🚨 August 19, 2022 : quick notes🚨

1. India- AFG relations
- people to people and civilisational links
said former AFG President HE Hamid Karzai

2. QUAD
Any opposition to QUAD is unilateralist opposition

Both 1/2 use in GS2 Indian international relations



Quote
Not going to school, we are killing ourselves and our future (Hamid Karzai)


Ethics Case Study Brainstorming
- 1000cr freebies by Dolo manufacturers to doctors
- Excise inspector sought 6 Bottles of alcohol from retailer for minister’s program in a viral audio




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🚨 August 20, 2022 : quick notes🚨

1. Welfarism
- new welfarism
Providing private goods- toilets, gas cylinders, income supplements etc

GS2: welfare schemes

2. India @75 looking at 100
vigyan gaon ki aur (science towards villages)

On need of science and research in national development with rural India in mind

3. Human milk bank in Nepal for at-risk infants

Reading recommendation
Note SC court cases from article in The Hindu by a DMK office holder on the topic of freebies

Quote
“Extinction is the rule, survival is the exception” Carl Sagan



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🚨 August 21, 2022 : easy Sunday🚨

1. Mare liberum
free sea for every one
Meaning^

Unique keyword for diverse use in high seas

Use In
- GS2: Int’l affairs
(UNCLOS, South China Sea, Indo-Pacific, Taiwan crisis)

Ethics case study consideration

Finnish PM Sanna Marin viral videos of partying in boisterous way

- What’re ethical concerns of top political leader in the country?

- Think from drugs perspective, compromising positions, manipulation and persuasion, attitude and aptitude questions and ethics in international relation in backdrop of Ukraine crisis and NATO membership application of Finland

- brainstorm other dimensions wrt syllabus, consider scene if it was an Indian PM, try to place yourself in shoes of Sanna Marin and Opposition leader of Finland




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🚨 August 22, 2022 : Momentum Monday🚨

1. On revari debate
competitive populism

Race to give max freebies overriding other, by Ashima Goyal. Read her views, good insights


Use In
- GS3: Indian economy

2. On increase in female scientists at CSIR

13% (2000-01) to 28% (2018-19)

use in
- GS1: role of women and women org
- GS3: Indian economy, developments in science and technology

3. Dr Pandurang Khankhoje

- Indian scientist from Maharashtra, instrumental in Mexican Green Revolution (wheat & maize)
- LS Speaker Sh Om Birla to unveil Dr Khankhoje’s statue in Mexico this week
- This Is government’s attempt to “honour not so known Indian origin heroes outside India”

4. 2x Farmers’ Income: Ashok Gulati‘s article
info: Ashok Dalwai committee is related to farmers’ income
- solar as 3rd crop
- inclusive growth, green growth
- “har khet me saur urja” potential next step towards raising awareness about this

use in
1. GS3: agriculture, Indian economy


Reading recommendations
- Sh Ashok Gulati’s article in IE
- Ashima Goyal, MPC member, views on freebies
- PFAS in IE (prelims related)
- NFTs/OpenSea in TH (prelims related)


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🚨 August 23, 2022 : Fun Tuesday🚨

1. On Public Sector Banks (IE explainer in context to Arvind Pangariya's research)
socially relevant, cost effective and important for economy

Use In
- GS3: Indian Economy (NPA and banking crisis)


Reading recommendations
- MUST READ: Centre-State skewed funds division (TH) with great relevance for GS2 Federalism and Centre State relations
- Dr Pandurang Khankhoje details for Pre and GS1 (personalities of Indian freedom struggle) in IE


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🚨 August 24, 2022 : Long read Wednesday🚨

1. Chabahar Port
gateway for Indian trade with Europe, Russia and Commonwealth Independent States. (In context of Chabahar, using Gateway is the key)

Use In
- GS2: Indian relations
- GS3: Indian Economy, Infrastructure etc

quote
science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge by Carl Sagan


Reading recommendations
- CP Rajendran’s article on Missing Scientific Temper in TH.
- Varun Gandhi’s article on freebies in TH (mainly for Way Out)
- If you don’t have notes on disaster management (floods), IE explainer on floods is imperative
- Google’s policy around Child Sex Abuse Material (CSAM)
- Chabahar port explainer in TH

Ethics Case Study Consideration
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This is In regard to the viral video where a woman in Noida is seen hurling abuses and obscene actions towards security guards.

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🚨 August 25, 2022 : Quick Tasty Thursday🚨

1. G20 Chair with India
Chance to project self as Chief Global Diplomat while projecting Indian achievements and strengthening case for UNSC expansion, AU as G20 member etc

Use In
- GS2: Indian relations


Reading recommendations
- Rajiv Bhatia’s article on G20 in TH
- Rajesh Gupta’s Idea of Universal Basic Insurance (UBI) in TH


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Some popular melas with relevance for Prelims taken from July’s episode of Mann ki Baat

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🚨 August 26, 2022 : easy Friday🚨

1. gungi gudiya
In context of women law makers who let their husbands run the show or are a mere token in the chair with their role, action and speech determined by the male seniors. (Something similar to sarpanch pati)


Reading recommendations
- Rajiv Bhatia’s article on Indian diplomacy in IE
- Mrinal Pande’s ‘Ladoo Gopal’ article in IE. While I don’t appreciate equating Gandhiji and Lord Krishna on similar norms, the flow of her article will help you with essay writing. Read it for the flow and see how she switches the context


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🚨 August 27, 2022 : Super Saturday🚨

1. On ‘revadi’ debate

India needs to move away from Competitive electoral freebie-ism -> smart subsidies that address market failures (e.g. health, education, clean-air etc) & minimise distortionary effects.

use in
GS3: Indian economy

2. On Gorkhas in Indian army (good explainer in IE, check it out)

The remittances sent by Gorkhas back to Nepal facilitate social modernisation in remote villages of the country.

Use In
GS2: Indian relations (economic impacts on neighbors)



Reading recommendations
- if you’re new to UPSC game, checkout TH article on AFSPA (can note Jeevan Reddy Commission recommendations)
- Lumpy Disease in IE (relevant for economics of animal rearing GS3)
- Practo app to be made **divyang** friendly after the court order


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🚨 August 28, 2022 : Smooth Sunday🚨

Surprisingly, didn’t find anything too significant in today’s newspapers except TH Science edition. Just take a note of this fact and enjoy your Sunday


1. OTT platforms set to be 12,000 CR industry by 2023; to overtake multiplex business. (SBI report)

A cultural shift, imp point to be noted

use in
- GS1: Society & culture
- GS3: Indian economy




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I hosted Sh Anupam Sharma, IFS on “The Aspirants Show” yesterday. He gave some good insights into what to look at while analysing PYQs.

I’ll strongly recommend you check that segment out. The podcast is on Spotify.
Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7qt9EqdAYSED7wd7q27GMy


🚨 August 29, 2022 : Mutual Monday🚨

3 prime notes today:

- Militarisation of Taiwan Strait used by India for first time

- Take a look at flood situation in Pak (explainer page of IE: relevant wrt tributary of Indus, climate change and environment topics of GS3)

- SC cases on 2 topics, both on Text & Content page of TH:
1. aadhar-Voter ID linkage (Lal Babu Hussain and Puttaswamy judgement)
2. Freebies (Balaji case)



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🚨 August 30, 2022 : from freebies to environment, trending Tuesday 🚨


1. On freebies
a) TT Ram Mohan’s article on freebies in TH
- freebie: subsidised consumption
- case of merit v/s non merit goods
- productive v/s unproductive expenditure

b) M. Suresh Babu’s article on freebies has a relevant set of two things:
1. Points of discussion in fiscal federalism
2. Way forward

Will recommend you read these two. Easy language, great follow and all points concluded well. Something that our essays shall be like!

use in
- GS3: Indian economy in context of revadi debate

2. cloud seeding
Injecting chemicals in clouds to force precipitation

Iran has accused UAE & Israel of making “Iranian clouds not rain”

3. Zombie ice

Zombie or doomed ice that’s still attached to thicker areas of ice but is no longer getting fed by those large glaciers. Why? Parent glaciers getting less replenished snow

Seen as dead ice, will eventually disappear from ice sheet

2 & 3 use in
- prelims
- GS2: International relations
- GS3: environment


Reading Recommendations
- On ‘Bail’, Text and Context page of TH


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🚨 August 31, 2022 : August ends! 🚨


1. Some concepts emerging post pandemic in Indian consumer market
a) revenge concept in economy post pandemic
- revenge travel
- revenge shopping

b) Hyper lapse consumerism
‘Want the things and want them now’


use in
GS3: Indian economy

2. decentralised governance
One of Abhijit Sen’s core idea

Use in
GS2: Federalism

3. Busiest airports (GS3 Infra- Civil Aviation)
DEL>BOM>BLR>MAA>KOL


Quote
1. There can’t be adequate soft power without hard power and to be able to project soft power, we need to concurrently develop hard power capabilities

use in
GS2: Indian Relations
GS3: Security

2. “On the field, track, mat or in the ring, only merit, fitness, and hard work matter”

- MC Mary Kom

Revise
- El Niño and La Nina in IE pg7
- Target Olympic Podium scheme





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When preparing at home without coaching, we all wish we had a mentor who could have helped us with prelims PYQ analysis.

This problem has been solved to a large extent now! Sh. Anupam Sharma, IFS gave precise 4 point strategy on how to analyse Prelims PYQ by yourself. Watch 👇🏻


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