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How to map 22 languages of 8th schedule via visual memory. Did a thread on this on Twitter.

I promise after learning from this Twitter thread, you’ll be able to answer all 22 languages even in your sleep.

Link to thread: https://twitter.com/CseWhy/status/1567125713597366273?s=20&t=V1Gv6WcTelZo8Me2ACnoqA
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🚨 September 8 2022 : Green Thursday🚨

1. GREEN
Found repeated use of ‘green’ in today’s newspaper
- Green Bench: paperless initiative of Justice Chandrachud’s Bench
- Green schools: infra for PM SHRI schools
- Green tariff: in context to TANGEDCO’s petition

Can be quoted to express green initiatives in environment answers and essays

Use In
1. GS3


2. Spirit of public service: not right to rule but the duty to serve
Use In
1. GS2: Role of civil services in democracy



3. Sri Lanka crisis because of human rights abuses, economic crimes and corruption says a UN report

Use In
1. GS2

stats

63%
corporates embrace hybrid model (remote + live) says a Colliers India Survey


Reading recommendations
1. Indian Express
a) NCAP update page 9 (GS2)
b) Explained PM-SHRI (will share detailed post on it later today for you to note) (GS2)

2 The Hindu
a). TANGEDCOs related editorial (for economics of discoms and tariff industry) (GS3)
b) joint space exercise needed b/w India US (GS2)
c) CSR funding in NGOs (GS3)




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Friends, I have created a blog to help you better organize the notes that I share. All you gotta do is just visit it and enter your email ID.

Remember I promised to share all details on PM-SHRI in the morning?
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https://csewhy.substack.com/p/pm-shri
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🚨 September 9 2022 : Fruitful Friday🚨

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1. Shramjeevi
Respecting the labor and contribution of shram in building new India

2. Shonali Addhaye
Relationship between India-Bangladesh

3. On reservation, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan: new generation should consider affirmative action for marginalised as responsibility and not burden

4. Disaster Diplomacy
Interactions on Twitter between PM Modi and PM Shareef (of Pak) amidst Pak floods

5. In road to sarvashreshtha Bharat, we need cultural infrastructure as well



Reading recommendations

1. Indian Express
- PR Chakravarty’s Golden Chapter Continues
- Amarjit Singh’s Way of Seeing
- A suitable teacher by Aanchal Chomal and Anupama Ram
- Food basket for patients (TB related) (page 9)


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🚨 September 10 2022 : Smooth Saturday, not much in paper today🚨

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1. TR Raghunandan’s article on Bengaluru floods
- institutional euthanasia needed to fix the problem to get away from problem of urban floods.

Pre note
- Arkavathy river, tributary of Cauvery

Reading recommendations

1. The Hindu
- The stark reasons why Bengaluru is Sinking (TR Raghunandan)
- When the IT capital went under


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22 languages of 8th Schedule: in JUST a Minute. You’ll never forget any of these after watching this video.

Visit for a quick revision 👇🏻
https://youtu.be/KZ82YCNRx8U
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CSEWhy Resources:

1. Click here to get 15 Year or 10 Year Prelims PYQ Notes

2. Visual Notes: Maps collection (Index in the image)

Visual memory is a scientific technique to score higher in prelims

Click here to get Visual Notes

3. GS4 Ethics Notes

CSEWhy Free to download Resources

1. CSAT Curated Doc

2. CSE Why Flowcharts

3. t-Vidya: Twitter Threads Compilation

4. Free keywords from speeches of Prime Minister and Mann ki Baat July 2022-April 2023
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🚨 September 11 2022 : Super Sunday🚨

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No keywords today but rich recommendations on reading (and making notes, if you do)


Reading recommendations

1. The Hindu
- Cloudburst Forecast: develop an understanding on the topic
GS3 disaster management

- On vaccines (GS3: SnT)

a) Rabies vaccine
Can make pre centric notes here on how this vaccine (and ors.) function

b) Nasal Vaccine
Develop an understanding on how it functions


- Kushiyara River
Other than what’s mentioned, also educate yourself on Thalweg Principle (also relevant for India-Pak Sir Creek Issue)

- Price Cap @ G20 : GS2 Int’l affairs, GS3: economy

develop an understanding. After reading this check my PM speeches doc (link in pinned tweet)
PM’s words from that speech at Eastern Economic Forum will give you an insight into India’s stand on Price Cap.

- Liz Truss article not all of it is relevant, just checkout future challenges

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Anything newspaper for Sh BB Lal’s contribution

- Hydrogen Fuel Cell in Indian Express


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Screen capture from the speeches document. At EEF, PM spoke about Investments in energy.

Now connect it with price cap: On one hand, EU/USA wants India to join price cap while India is already committing to invest in energy.

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Quoting articles of constitution give you an edge in UPSC Mains answers. But they’re fragmented and tough to remember!!!

I’ve compiled the articles relevant to women, children, SC/ST in one place to make your life easier.

Find them in one place on my this blog post 👇🏻
https://csewhy.substack.com/p/4-constitutional-provisions-for-upsc
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🚨 September 12 2022 : Monday Musings🚨

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1. Agri policy issues
- short termism
- poor market intelligence & lack of credible production estimates

2. Post pandemic trends:
- Great Resignation in US
- Great Retirement in Canada


3. Take Science out of lab a recommendation; can be used as way forward in SnT and RnD answers

4. Indian stand on returning back of 1.1m Rohingyas in Bangladesh; favours safe, sustainable and expeditious return


stats
1. $18bn trade b/w India-Bangladesh
2. 40% of global rice trade: Indian share
3. Apple economy of HP ₹5,500 cr

Reading Recommendations

1. TH
- India Bangladesh (Rajiv Bhatia article) (GS2)
- Apple industry issues (GS3)
- Adoption Case (GS3)

2. IE
- Rice trade (GS3)
- Tokyo-Del compact (by Sujan Chinoy: GS2)


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Citizenship in India is an important topic from Pre pov.

Here’s a video for you to revise Citizenship end to end in just 60 seconds. Watch! 👇🏻

https://youtube.com/shorts/G-2WA-3Xq8M?feature=share
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🚨 September 12 2022 : Easy Tuesday🚨

1. PM TB-Mukt Bharat Abhiyan

Have compiled all that’s needed from GS2/3 perspective in this blog post. You can simply save this link to your notes or bookmark link to my blog :)

https://csewhy.substack.com/p/5-pm-tb-mukt-bharat-abhiyan


stats
1. On electricity

- 404.1 GW
demand of electricity in 2022, expected to be 2x by 2032 as per Central Electricity Authority

- 28GW in coal needed by 2032

- coal share to drop below 60% as India aims to have 500GW in non fossil by 2030

Reading Recommendations

1. TH
- India and International Law article by Prabhash Ranjan
- G20 article for revision

2. IE
- C Raja Mohan’s article on Russia-Ukraine war
- 103rd amendment case in SC explained


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How do I make notes?

This is most asked question in my email. Broke down the science of making notes step by step in this blog post.

Read 👇🏻
https://csewhy.substack.com/p/6-how-to-make-notes-for-upsc
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🚨 September 14 2022 : हिंदी दिवस की बधाई :)🚨

How to make notes for UPSC and how to note Current Affairs?
Answered these two imp questions in my last 2 blog posts. Visit Csewhy.substack.com


1. Political crop

A crop that’s politicised by political parties. Used in context of rubber crop woes in Kerala

diverse use from essay to society and GS3 topics

2. Windfall Tax

Designed to tax profits of company driven by external or unprecedented events (eg energy price rise in Russia-Ukraine conflict)

US Congressional Research Services definition: unearned, unanticipated gain in income through no additional effort or expense

Reading Recommendations

1. TH
- Boost to patent system by Reji Joseph
- Suhasini Haider’s article on upcoming SCO meet
- rubber prices (text context)
- windfall tax (text context)

2. IE
- A country for queer by Aqaba Shaikh
- Cracking Anaemia mystery
- CRISPR explained page (MUST read)


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आज हिंदी दिवस है। क्या है संविधान में हिंदी के लिए प्रावधान? जानिए हिंदी के लिए ज़रूरी अनुच्छेद सिर्फ़ 40 सेकंड की इस video में।

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🚨 September 15 2022 : Mid week run🚨

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1. hindi not a competitor but friend

2. Aaya Ram Gaya Ram

3. Cost safety and efficacy
three things considered for a medicine to be in NLEM (national list of essential medicines)

Pre centric

1. Lok Sahir Annabhau Sathe a participant of Chandar lake/Mahad Satyagraha.

2. Manasbal Lake in Gandharwal district of JnK, a freshwater lake. -Used to have training exercises for cadets from 1965-1989.
- Terminated in militancy era and KP exodus
- 33 years later, cadets are back to train

stats

9% elderly population (2011) to 18% in 2036 (expected) as per National Commision on Population

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. What health account shows
Read to develop understanding. I don’t find virtue of making notes here

2. Rivers without borders
by Sanjib Baruah


TH:
1. The future of old times in India on old age security, health and government policies

2. water crisis, seen unseen



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Made a video on how to memorise and remember the Ganga river system. Shared two important mnemonics and where do these tributaries meet ganga. Watch 👇🏻

https://youtu.be/Xanq0WzJz78
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After looking at today’s Essay paper, you’ll understand why this tweet is VERY important for essay prep

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🚨 September 16 2022 : Late delivery🚨

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1. Cashless, Paperless and Effortless digital banking

Use in
- GS3

2. Civilisational Diplomacy
Russia, China, India are all civilisational states and need to upgrade their civilisational past and links.

Use In
GS2: Indian relations
(keep watching all this diplomacy words closely. Few days ago I shared energy diplomacy)

3. Merge
- Major software upgrade on Ethereum blockchain
- switch from proof of work to proof of stake
- 99.95% less energy to be used
- earlier, single transaction used power equivalent of what a US household uses in a week

Use in
GS3: SnT awareness



Ethics case study/Essay
Patagonia founder gave away all his wealth ($3bn) to fight climate change


Pre Centric

Erinidi Reserve of Namibia
From where Cheetahs are coming


Reading Recommendations

The Hindu
- Manufacturing v/s Services
- EEF
- TN’s breakfast scheme
(read this to revise the Mid day meal story)




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