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🚨 September 21 2022 : Wednesday Win🚨

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1. Capability plans and developments of Navy based on requirements to protect, preserve, and promote our national interest

Use In
GS3: security


2. era not of war but democracy, dialogue and diplomacy

Use In
GS2: International Relations

3. a) rajakaluves
Storm water drains of Bengaluru

b) cities: engines of economy

use in
GS1: Urbanisation



Reading Recommendations

IE
1. The ‘triple dip’ La Niña
2. ED’s lengthening ram
3. eSIMs

TH
1. Growing peril of missing Bengaluru’s drains
2. Positioning India in a chaotic world
3. Lumpy Skin Disease (great resource. Won’t have to read anything else if you read this)


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Lumpy Skin Disease is relevant for UPSC.

How?
GS3: Economics of Animal Rearing

Compiled notes for LSD. This blog has it all that an aspirant needs for Prelims and Mains.

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Shared a simple but highly effective tip that can help you improve your UPSC Mains Answers within JUST 3 weeks.

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🚨 September 22 2022 : Thrill of Thursday 🚨


1. National Logistics Policy 2022
Have compiled the relevant notes from NLP on the blog.
Visit: https://csewhy.substack.com/p/10-national-logistics-policy

Use In
GS3: Infrastructure


2. Women need education and financial independence to break away from Plus One of their male counterparts

use in
Good use as way forward in GS1: Role of women and women org


3. Shrinkflation
Product downsizes its quantity while keeping the price the same

GS3


Stats
Globally, 1/3 women face domestic violence as per a UN report


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Shared some easy mnemonics to remember all Fundamental Rights in this blog post.

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https://csewhy.substack.com/p/11-how-to-remember-fundamental-rights

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🚨 September 23 2022 : Weekend vibe 🚨

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1. Urbanisation (GS1)
City is constituted by deep linkages between caste, community and urban space

Reading Recommendations

IE

1. Freeing the caged parrot by Vineet Narain (great recommendations on CVC/CBI reforms)

2. cow and the city
Great relevant points on rural-urban integration relevant for GS1: Urbanisation

TH
1. Census is not about counting sheep must read for the facts, data and opinion formation. Don’t pay much heed to political views or bias of the writer

2. Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan conflict
Seeing questions in Pre, this article is super relevant

3. nikah halala
A relevant debate from GS1 (women & women org role and GS2: Polity)



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Have compiled all 5 writs, their meaning along with examples from current affairs for you to relate better to it.

Read, learn, share and save link of this blog to your notes :D

https://csewhy.substack.com/p/12-writs-ua-32?sd=pf

3R mantra for making UPSC notes.

It took me 2 years to figure this,
you can learn it in just 30 seconds here👇🏻

https://youtu.be/i2sQRJ50xm8

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🚨 September 24 2022 : Super Saturday🚨

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1. clear, concise, well-organised, and audience-appropriate

New Zealand’s new ‘plain language’ bill aims. Can be used in context of making Indian Executive and Judiciary communication people friendly

2. Infrastructure diplomacy
After civilisational diplomacy and energy diplomacy, this is third addition to keywords. Always keep a tab of such ‘diplomacy’ initiatives.

use in
GS2: Indian relations

3. PM-SHRI schools will become community centres after regular hours and converge with existing schemes like PM Poshan, Samagrah Shiksha and Ayushman Bharat

use in
GS2 Welfare schemes

4. Urbanisation
Some examples of smart urbanisation
- Garden city movement
- 15 Minute Walk City

use in
GS1: Urbanization


stats
1. Ethanol production for blending in India
2013-14: 38 cr litres
2021-22: 450 cr litres
2025-26: 1016 cr litres

2. World Bank: By 2050, climate change may reduce India’s GDP by 3%

3. 49 billion digital transactions in India
- 3x of China
- 7x of USA, UK, Canada, Europe
- 466mn new bank accounts


Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Renewing our cities
A great piece with classic flow and fine examples

2. Carbon Dating

3. Indian reservations to Ukrainian conflict


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Sunday affirmation to help you deal with UPSC anxiety and stress.

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🚨 September 26 2022 : Mighty Monday🚨

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1. 500 Cheetah Mitras onboarded by administration around Kuno to spread awareness and protect cheetah habitat

Use In
GS3: environment

2. Indian Nutrition Rating by FSSAI b/w 0-5 to denote least healthy to healthiest food

Use in
GS3

3. Soft Power definition by Joseph Nye
Power of attraction through culture, political ideas, and policies rather than coercion

Use in
GS2: International Relations

4. Reformed Multilateralism
Indian attempt at UNSC reforms and other initiatives

Use in
GS2: International Relations


5. Material and spiritual progress

Dalai Lama’s words on ideal growth of a state

Use in
Essays and ethics


Quote

There’s nothing like teaching to help one learn by Dalai Lama


stats
- Institute for Economics and Peace: violence cost 7% of GDP in 2020

- 2018 reply in parliament: India spends 3 paise per day per capita on sports China on the contrary spends ₹6.1/-


pre centric
- Neelakurinji flowers bloom in Seethalayyana Giri Hill Ranges in Chikkamagaluru district
- Surjapuri (Seemanchal) and Bajjika (Bajjikanchal) dialects of Bihar


Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Prakash Singh’s article on Police Reforms

2. Star rating for packaged foods

3. Limits of free monetary policy


TH
1. Soft power, the new race

2. Shifting monsoon patterns


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“How to be consistent during preparation?”

Asked this question to Ms Kruti Naik on my podcast and she gave the most apt answer. Watch and learn👇🏻

https://youtu.be/qgUwdMBZNDQ

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🚨 September 27 2022 🚨

Today’s The Hindu has great notes on Semiconductors. I’ve compiled them for you!

Find them on my blog: https://csewhy.substack.com/p/14-semiconductor-push-in-india


1. Micro-Finance: Anti poverty vaccine
Source: 2020 PYQ

use in
GS2

2. The Dharamshala Declaration
Aims to recognise Indian role in contributing towards global tourism as well as focusing on recovery by promoting domestic tourism

3. Guiding principles of tourism in New Tourism Policy draft
- sustainable, responsible and inclusive tourism in line with civilisational ethos

- digitalisation, innovation and technology


GS3: Economy


Pre Centric
1. DART (byNASA) to crash into an asteroid
- Double Asteroid Redirection Test Spacecraft
- to collide with Dimorphos, a small asteroid; it is a moon of Didymos
- Why?
- Proof of Principle
- to prepare world for any upcoming asteroids headed towards earth in future


2. E-commerce platforms with foreign funding (FDI) prohibited by FDI norms from offering discounts


Stats
1. Justice Rohini Commission of 2018 analysed data on 1.3 lac central jobs u/ OBC quota + OBC admissions at IIT, NIT, IIM, AIIMS to claim:

main beneficiaries of quota were Yadavs, Kurmis, Jats, Sainis, Thevars, Eazhavas, and Vokkaligas


2. Tourism: (by 2024)
- $150bn contribution to GDP
- 15mn annual foreign tourists arrival


Reading Recommendations
IE

- The Eurobomb by C Raha Mohan

- Deciding rarest of rare (comprehensive article explaining the case of new debate around death penalty)

TH

- Putting India as a signature destination

- Push for Semiconductor industry (covered in blog)


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I asked Ms Kruti Naik (Govt of GJ officer) to share direction for students whose optional is Sociology

She summed it up really well! Here, watch and learn 👇🏻

https://youtu.be/34XMF5fPcl4

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🚨 September 28 2022 | Easy Wednesday🚨

Today’s newspapers talk about asteroids. I’ve summarised difference between Asteroid, Meteoroid, Meteor, Meteorite, Comet via my latest blog for you to learn 👇🏻

https://csewhy.substack.com/p/15-asteroid-meteoroid-meteor-meteorite

1. Women in public sphere bring along diversity, equity and inclusiveness
Source: PYQ 2021

2. Space Mining
One of DART spacecraft’s futuristic use to extract Rare Earth Minerals (REM) from Space.

Some of REM: Yttrium, Niobium, Rhodium, Palladium, Osmium, Iridium, Scandium etc

REM is imp from Pre perspective. A lot of questions asked in PYQs

3. Malthusian Trap
Rise in human population -> Increased pressure on earth’s resources -> checks further rise in population


Quotes

The dream of a better future is also a powerful way to draw attention away from the despair of the present


Road to sustainability runs through deep cultural questions of any community

Reading Recommendations

- IE: Smashing into a space rock (develop an understanding)

- TH: EWS reservation post

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If you’re someone who’s struggling with finalising optional or need help with it, I got a kickass resource to help you make an informed decision.

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🚨 September 29 2022 | Thursday🚨

I’ve compiled Ethics GS4 strategy for aspirants. Read & learn it on my blog:
https://csewhy.substack.com/p/16-upsc-mains-ethics-strategy

1) Leaked long term plan of China’s OBOR
It’s ploy for economic domination, creation of surveillance states, and allowing China to influence media landscapes

Further, it’s violative of principles like good governance, transparency, and rule of law


2. diaspora diplomacy

The collective action driven by country’s diaspora influencing host’s culture, politics & economics in a mutually beneficial manner for homeland & new home base

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. What ban on PFI means


TH
1. In Nature’s warning signs, a nudge to riparian states

2. Globe changing reverberations of Ukraine war



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Important Articles related to Public Funds in India you’ll need to quote in Mains Answers:

1. 266(1) Consolidated Fund of India
2. 266(2) Public Accounts of India
3. 267 Contingency Fund of India

What are these? How do they differ?

Have shared it all in just 4 tweets for you to learn. Find the tweets here 👇🏻
https://twitter.com/CseWhy/status/1575349969321881600?s=20&t=bmrUJMxHtNpdysZP-p0p8A

My brother wrote Mains this year and he has documented his strategy and experience in a YouTube video.

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🚨 September 30 2022 | Friday🚨

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1. Former PM Manmohan Singh on Naxal rebels single biggest internal security challenges faced by country

GS3


2. Mutual sensitivity
MEA Jaishankar’s new addition to the relationship demands with China


quotes

No woman can cal herself free who doesn’t control her own body


Reading Recommendations

IE
- The chief’s task by Arjun S.
good pointers and conclusion

- Revisiting Leicester avoid political bias and focus on geopolitical explanations given in this article

- SC abortion ruling QnA page 16

TH
- After the bloods, Bengaluru needs to cleanup its act notable pointers on how to get rid of corruption

- Paediatric cardio care service

- Telecom draft bill


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UPSC के लिए English कैसे improve करें?

Ms Kruti Naik (Govt of Gujarat Officer) answered it in best way.

Watch and learn👇🏻

https://youtu.be/L98KRWLfklw