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🚨 November 4 2022 | Friday 🚨

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If you’re in Delhi today and have time to spare, can visit Ganga Utsav at Major Dhyanchand Stadium. An initiative of National Mission for Clean Ganga

Quote
1. Poverty cannot be removed unless the poor have the power to make decisions that affect their lives
by Elaben Bhatt

2. Inclusion, like growth, does not fall like manna from heaven


Reading Recommendations

IE
1. How Haryana is winning fight against stubble burning? (imp article to note solutions. GS3: SnT/environment)

2. Poverty is down, period (GS2: Issues related poverty)

3. The gentle revolutionary

4. Poppy live in Afghanistan (GS3: Security)

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Also, if you live in Delhi and haven’t still filled this form, please be quick. Will send the invites today evening :)

How to prepare CSAT?

Watch and learn from IPS Anna Sinha. 😎👇🏻

https://youtu.be/YVWo5vl0zG4

Good morning!

If you had filled form for CSE Why Book Club, you might have received the invite on mail.

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🚨 November 5 2022 | Saturday 🚨

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Artha Ganga
The economic implications of the holy & might river Ganga.

Gyan Ganga
The knowledge of Ganga and its ecosystem

(Both above keywords are from Namami Gange program)


Energy Equity
The distribution of emissions and collective responsibility

Quote

1. Wars begin in minds of men, and it is in the minds of men (and women) that the defences of peace must be constructed

2. Yatra, in its own gentle way, shakes the universe

3. Demography is destiny (August Comte)

4. Nature can offer free lunch if only we can control our appetite

Reading Recommendations

IE
- Law is not enough (by Fali Nariman on Nuclear Issue) (GS3 Security)
- Vision for women’s empowerment: The story of Ela Bhatt’s SEWA (GS1: Role of women & women organisations)
- How governors can be removed from office (GS2: Polity)

TH
- The real issue at COP27 is energy equity


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How to score higher in UPSC Mains Essay?

Learn from a topper 👇🏻

https://youtu.be/rca1TtIyEWI

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🚨 November 6 2022 | Sunday 🚨

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Climate Networking
Diplomacy (Track 1-1.5-2) for the sake of climate solutions


Quote

A book in hand is worth two on the device

Stats
Indian metro rail network set to be third largest in the world


Reading Recommendations

TH
- Over 64k people in India die of snakebites each year
- How’s India planning to end child marriage
- Status of NRI voters



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A picture from first meet of CSE Why Book Club in New Delhi.

Sunny afternoon spent talking about books where 2 hours passed by so quick! 😍

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🚨 November 7 2022 | Monday 🚨

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Chip nationalism
Just like vaccine nationalism, chip nationalism is domesticating the chip manufacturing

Stats
50 bn tonne CO2 equivalent shall go down to 30 in 2030 and 8 in 2050 to keep 1.5 degree C target intact ( comment highly unlikely)

Quote
“Passion is the bridge that take you from pain to change” Frida Kahlo

Reading Recommendations

IE
- A spring in Kashmir (read for geography and mythology) (GS1)
- Charging the payment ecosystem (Read for understanding economics of UPI payments) (GS3)
- When Chips are down (read for petrol and chip similarity) (GS3)
- India: weakness and strength (read only this segment of Malaria Vaccine article on Page 14) (GS3)
- First amendment (GS2)
- Dr Sachchidanand Tripathi’s interview on pollution. (Save it to be read later)

TH
- The Uniform Civil Code




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Do I need a Plan B for UPSC?

IPS Anna Sinha has spoken very well on this for every upsc aspirant to hear and learn from 👇🏻

https://youtu.be/fvbT8aNDQtw

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🚨 November 8 2022 | Tuesday 🚨

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- Age of minimalism
New found still in India Pak relations (GS2)

- Cooperate or perish
Call by UN Chief at COP27 (GS3)

- Poverty Alleviation, Food Security and Sustainable Food Systems
3 Keys to end hunger (Matera Declaration)

- Sikhism’s 3 core principles by Guru Nanak Dev Ji
Vand Chhakkna
To share with others

Kirat Karna
Earn Honestly

Naam Japna
Remenber god



Vocabulary

Imprimatur
Authoritative Approval

Reading Recommendations

IE
- The German Decoupling
- Delhi as peacemaker

- EWS Judgement
Compiling the facts, data and quotes from EWS Reservation judgement. Will post on blog soon! :)

Regardless, if you’re interested, read following in IE:

First page:
- Quota for General poor gets top court seal

Editorial
- The poverty test
- Mandal Plus
- 4 questions in EWS Judgement


TH
- The age of minimalism in India-Pak ties (GS2)
- India’s G20 Presidency and Food security (GS2)



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Friends, in a new initiative, I have started compiling precise notes of Mains Syllabus for aspirants to learn from. This is in line with my effort of ensuring equitable access to UPSC prep material.

In the first post, you can find notes for GS3: Economics of Animal Rearing on my blog. Going forward, you'd find more of GS notes live soon.

https://csewhy.substack.com/p/43-economics-of-animal-rearing

नौकरी के साथ UPSC की तैयारी कैसे करें?

Hear & learn from IPS Ms. Anna Sinha who has actually done it. 👇🏻

https://youtu.be/eYN8F6Nkab0

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🚨 November 9 2022 | Wednesday 🚨

Important message for UPSC 2023 aspirants: https://youtu.be/xqhl64-332M


1. Some “One” Keywords

- One Earth. One Family. One Future. tagline for G20 summit

- One Sun. One World. One Grid.

- One World One Health

2. Source, Transparency, and Time Frame
Three components seeking cooperation in Global Supply Chain

3. Greenwashing
Presenting a false picture of progress being made on climate change front, thereby pushing the world to disaster while at the same time rewarding entities for irresponsible behaviour (remember Prelims 2022 Q?)


Quote
“The demographic point is a dividend only if it is disciplined and imbued with a nationalistic fervour.”

- General Narvane

Reading Recommendations

IE
Editorial
1. A voice for Global South (GS2: Int’l groupings)
2. Letter to the new CJI (Excellent article on things that need to be reformed. GS2: Judiciary)

Explained
3. Red flags over greenwashing


TH

- After the dust, a clearer picture of Agnipath’s direction
- The SC order on PF pensions


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Just added important notes on the blog for Prelims. Don't miss out on detailed notes which are posted only on the blog.

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🚨 November 10 2022 | Thursday 🚨

Late because unwell. But consistent! (no claps, pls 👏)


Airshed
Common geographic area where pollutants get trapped

Individual Centric Protest
Shift from group to one, no more placard or picket line. eg:
- throwing soups or potatoes at famous paintings and then gluing self to ground/wall in west
- Headgear of clergy knocked in Iran (GS2)

Blue Infra areas/Sponge Cities
- natural sponges to absorb surface run off, allowing groundwater to recharge. (GS1)

Increase in Urbanisation, Population, and Industrialisation

Along with higher number of automobiles are reason behind High concentration of Air Pollutants in Delhi


Quote

Protest beyond the law isn’t a departure from democracy, it’s absolutely essential to it
Howard Zinn

Reading Recommendations

IE
- Our choking cities by Varun Gandhi (Pick examples and data- GS1)
- Midterms & US economy (GS3: here, actions of fed is imp to revise macroeconomics)
- Vikram-S for lift off: Giant leap for Indian pvt sector

TH
- Policing with talent, resource sharing, not squabbling


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🚨 November 11 2022 | Friday 🚨

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Reading Recommendations

IE:
- India as a mediator in Ukraine war (explained page)

TH:
- Forgotten in India after fighting world trenches
- Homogenisation of music (beautiful article on Page 13 reflecting on human behaviour)



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Note: peaks in Red font color are highest peaks of their range

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🚨 November 12 2022 | Saturday 🚨

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Judicial Governance

All judges who are constitutionally entrusted with responsibility of protecting rights of citizens must also be seen as persons of rectitude. (GS2)


Meaningful and credible strategic autonomy

(GS2)

Quote

Whatsoever a great man doeth, that other men also do; the standard he setteth up, by that the people go

Phrase can be good intro to quote Gandhi

Conflicts to climate, Mahatma’s ideas answer to all challenges


Reading Recommendations

IE
- Financing a just transition
- Afzal Khan Tomb
- Mangrove Alliance for Climate



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🚨 November 13 2022 | Sunday 🚨

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Inclusive Sanitation
Sanitation for all, no one left behind

Indian data for Indian solutions
Currently, a large data of genomes and biotech materials is European. Indian data for indian solutions is a keyword to be used across diff industries

Vaccine equity
everyone in world to have same access to vaccines (can create more keywords like climate equity, water equity, energy equity)


Reading Recommendations

TH
- Can Vaccine distribution be made fairer?
- How has EWS ruling altered reservations?
- Why are talks on 1.5 degree Celsius at cliff edge at COP27?
- The crypto empire that fell




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