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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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🚨 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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Found best graphic for all Mountain Ranges of India. 👆🏻

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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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A lot of countries face big challenge with declining fertility rates. They want couples to make babies and thus, give incentives!

Some examples for you to quote in your mains answers! 😎💪🏻

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🚨 November 14 2022 | Monday 🚨

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Gene revolution in context to BT Cotton and GM Mustard
(Just like Green Revolution)

Quote

1) Justice is the sum of all moral duty

2) Agriculture of tomorrow is going to be science based and the winners will be those who adopt it and develop it further today



Reading Recommendations

IE
- The Gene Revolution (beautifully penned- GS3)
- Securing Green Transition (GS3)
- Our diabetes Challenge (Holistic article on how to keep yourself fit and healthy)




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🚨 November 15 2022 | Tuesday 🚨

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Energy, Health and Digital transformation
3 key agendas on G20 list in 2022

Quote

1. You must do the thing you think you cannot do Eleanor Roosevelt

2. Violence is like a weed- it does not die even in the greatest drought

Vocabulary

Permacrisis: Collin’s Dictionary word of the year

Meaning: an extended period of instability and insecurity.

Reading Recommendations

IE:
- Asia after Ukraine by C Raja Mohan (incredible 5 point reflection on implication so Ukraine war in Asia)

- A quota system more evolved (fair reflection by the then Law Minister)

- Crypto’s Lehman Brothers moment- and what happens after FTX fall


TH:

- The shape of the Indian economic pie must change by Arun Maria (east words, big message)




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FREE notes for GS3: Inclusive Growth for all aspirants on the blog. 🥰

Will slowly make all such notes public 😎

https://csewhy.substack.com/p/45-inclusive-growth-and-issues-arising

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🚨 November 16 2022 | Wednesday 🚨

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Coercion to co-option is soft power strategy via
- Culture
- Politics
- Foreign Policy

Cinematic Colonialism
deep rooted colonial consciousness surfacing in Indian movies


Quote

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck

-Dalai Lama


“Past is not past, it is still passing by..”

“Unless we bridge the yawning chasm between the global haves and have-nots, we are setting ourselves up for an 8 bn strong world filled with crisis, conflict, tensions and mistrust”

- UN Sec Gen Guterres



Reading Recommendations

IE:
Editorials
- No money for terror (GS3: Security, world class source on terror financing)
- I have three dreams for India (I felt warm reading this. Relevant for GS1 Culture and GS3 Infrastructure)
- A better frame for us (Cinema & Soft power)
- The low carbon pathway + Road to Net Zero (from Explained page) (GS3 Environment. Will post detailed notes from these on blog)

Explained Page
- Kashi and Tamil Nadu link
- Kurdistan Workers’ Party (take a look at geography of Kurds. Regular questions in Pre from such places)


TH:
- what does world bank report say about India’s cities (GS1: Urbanisation)
- Climate change affecting global health (GS3: Health and Environment)


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🚨 November 17 2022 | Thursday 🚨

Did you read GS3 Free notes for Inclusive Growth and Economics of Animal Rearing from my blog? 👇🏻
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- Demonetisation, why? (Govt affidavit in SC)

- Transformational Economy Policy step (not standalone)
- Major step to fight menace of
a) Fake currency notes
b) Storage of unaccounted wealth
c) Financing of subversive activities


- India’s G20 Presidency shall be Inclusive, Ambitious, Decisive, and Action-Oriented

- Liquidity, Profitability and Growth
LPG Mantra for business growth


Reading Recommendations

IE
- President INDIA (G20 presidentship)
- The unsung martyrs of Mangarh
- Evaluating OPS


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🚨 November 18 2022 | Friday 🚨

Reading Recommendations

IE
- Road to G20, Delhi 2023 (keep saving material on G20. Will come handy for Mains)

TH
- Opaque political financing could cost democracy dear
- Weighing in on PMGKAY, the free grains scheme

Free Notes

Compiled definitions of extreme weather events in one place. Find them on my blog 👇🏻
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Friends, India recently announced Long Term Strategy (LTS) at COP27 in Egypt.

What’s LTS? Why’s it important? It’s Very Important topic for UPSC (GS3 Environment)

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