Free notes for GS2: 20 Types of Diplomacy

Happy to share another set of my notes for free. (Coaching institutes easily charge 100s of rupees for these)

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https://csewhy.substack.com/p/48-20-types-of-diplomacy-free-notes

North India me sardi shuru hogayi hai.

UPSC ke liye consistency maintain karna challenge hai ab.

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🚨 November 20 2022 | Sunday 🚨


India recently presented Long Term Strategy at COP27. What’s LTS? What’s U-FITE? All notes in one place on my blog 👇🏻
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Fake Charities, Fake NGOs as terror fund sources in India


Reading Recommendations

IE
- Life, legend of Tribal icon Birsa Munda

TH:
- Hypertension: ticking time bomb in Indian adolescents
- Why’s Japan increasing its defence budget?

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It’s easy to find Sources of Constitution but how do you remember them?

In another blog sharing Free Notes, I bring to you Tricks to remember an important GS2 topic 🥰

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🚨 November 21 2022 | Monday 🚨

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3A’s running Pakistan
America, Army, Allah

Quote

Many countries have an army but Pakistan is the only army that has a country

Growth without equity is not sustainable

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. A reform, much ignored (GS2: Quasi Judicial bodies)
2. BJP’s Muslim Outreach (GS2: Polity: note 2 main reasons behind this as per the writer )

TH:
- Threat to federalism in agri education
- MUST READ: C Rangarajan’s Charting the economy ahead


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How to remember articles of Union Executive? 🤔

Take a pen and paper, write 5,6,7 from top to bottom and in front of it, 2,3,4 😮

5 2 (President of India)
6 3 (VP of India)
7 4 (Council of Ministers u/ PM) 🤯

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🚨 November 22 2022 | Tuesday 🚨


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Demographic dividend to Demographic nightmare

If large population is left illiterate, unskilled and jobless

Firefighting
Reactive responses to crisis arising from lack of preparedness, lack of capacity, national will and cohesion between diff instruments of statecraft

Fireproofing
Preparedness against crisis

Quote

Privacy is not something that I am merely entitled to, it’s an absolute prerequisite
- Marlon Brando

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it
- George Orwell

We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator

- Antonio Guterres


Reading Recommendations

IE:
- Too little Too late (understand the dynamics and history, GS3)
- New frontiers in space (If there’s only ONE article you’re to read today, make it this)
- Developing Great Nicobar: strategic imperative, ecological concerns (GS2 & GS3)
- Slowing dragon, racing elephant (GS2)

TH
- Ram Setu as geo-heritage
- New Data Protection Bill
- Electoral Bonds and transparency’s



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Friends, as you slept last night, I made another set of Free Notes public

Major crops and cropping pattern is one of the confusing topics for UPSC CSE Mains.

Not anymore!

Visit the notes below and write some Mains PYQs. It’ll feel like a cakewalk! 🫢😉

GS3: Major Crops and Cropping Patterns.

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This is an E-Mail Ask Me Anything post. You can email me your rational queries about UPSC for next one hour.

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The great response to this message prompted me to share tips and tricks to learn 100+ Articles of Constitution in this twitter thread.

Read, Learn and Save this twitter thread to your notes! :D

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🚨 November 23 2022 | Wednesday 🚨


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Ramayan Circuit, Mahabharat Circuit, and Buddhist Circuit

All in UP for cultural and spiritual tourism push

Elephant: Cultural and religious symbol


Pre related

Sukhatal Lake
- feeder for Naini lake as upstream monsoon storage
- saves erosion and silt deposition in Naini Lake
- Threat: Encroachment & dumping of construction work

Reading Recommendations

IE:
- CITES abstention
-COP27: One hit, many misses

TH:
- India Pole in International Politics (GS2: International Relations)
- SC ruling on pensions for women officers
- Political Project of Savarkarite international



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🚨 November 24 2022 | Thursday 🚨


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Quote

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of the age.
- Plato

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Fixing Election Commission by PB Mehta (GS2 Election Commission)
2. Win-win deal (India-Australia ECTA) (GS3 economy)
3. On Assam-Meghalaya border dispute, shadow of recent killings (GS3 Internal Security)
4. Rupee, Inflation and RBI (read this to understand how inflation and rupee are interlinked.)


TH
1. India's G-force moment (note for way forward in what India shall be doing)


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🚨 November 25 2022 | Friday 🚨


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pre related

1. Kutia Kondh
- tribe of the Kandhamal district in Odisha
- shares deep relationship with Millets
- Festival of tribe: Burlang Yatra (women worship and exchange seeds amidst songs and dance)

SC Case

- Animal Welfare Board of India v/s A Nagaraja and others 2014:
"Parliament is expected to make proper amendment of the Prevention of Cruelty against Animals Act to provide an effective deterrent"


Reading Recommendations

IE
1. The forgotten admiral (what a beautiful story on Lachit Barphukan)
2. Banking on New Delhi (on LnD)
3. Tougher draft law against cruelty to animals

TH
1. A word of advice on OTT and the draft telecom bill (GS3)
2. Russia's nuclear icebreakers and militarisation of the Arctic



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Shared tips to learn 100+ articles of Constitution in a Twitter thread for FREE!

This will otherwise be sold for ₹1,00,000+ at IAS coaching institutes

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How to be a citizen in India?
Mnemonic: BRAND

B: Birth
R: Registration
A: Acquire
N: Naturalization
D: Descent

How to lose citizenship of India?
Mnemonic: TDR

T: Termination
D: Deprivation
R: Renunciation


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🚨 November 26 2022 | Saturday 🚨


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Symbiotic relationship
Govt x RBI (AG defined it so in SC while defending Demonetisation)

Autopen
Programmed pen which is later recreated by a motorised mechanical arm holding a pen

Covid, conflict and climate
3 main food security challenges

de-risking global economy
(How millets are being projected)


Quote
Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health


Reading Recommendations

1. The story of millets (not all stats are important, take a look at the region, issues, importance and stance of India in this game as we go forward)
2. Securing the EC (Note 255th LC report recommendations)
3. A rare, enduring document (Menaka Guruswamy)




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🚨 November 27 2022 | Sunday 🚨


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1. We, the people = call, trust and oath

Use in GS1 society and community answers

2. Stahl Vriksham
A sacred plant reflecting imp of plants and trees

3. PSLC-C54 launched a joint Indo-Bhutan Satellite INS2B (quote in GS2 answers on SAARC/Space cooperation/Indo-Bhutan)

4. National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
Aim: “to create a society where people value their lives and are supported when in need”

Pre Related
1. Yak gets FSSAI Food Animal Tag
- Found in/ Arunachal, Sikkim, North Bengal, UK, HP, JnK, and Ladakh
- Wild Yak in Tibet
- Tag post National Research Centre on YAK (NRC-Y) recommendation

Reading Recommendations

IE:
- when the water trains came to parched Rajkot (checkout possible solutions, can quote in answers)


TH:
- Suicide prevention strategy: what’s new
- Why’s Darjeeling tea industry in crisis?

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How to write scoring Essays?

Asked IPS Anna Sinha this question on my podcast. Her answer is a must watch for every aspirant!

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🚨 November 28 2022 | Monday 🚨


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Bluebugging
- Form of hacking which let attackers access a device through discoverable Bluetooth connection
- once bluebugged, hacker can hear calls, read/send messages and steal and modify contacts


Quote

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails

Nelson Mandela

Use it in jail reforms


Reading Recommendations

IE
- Air of a leader (checkout solutions towards the end)
- The workplace issue we hush up (good article on menopausal health)
- DBT & Tenancy (understand macroeconomics)

TH:
- Towards legalising same sex marriage (note 3 imp court cases related to this)


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🚨 November 29 2022 | Tuesday 🚨


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Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
Some ways endorsed by global institutions to support Palestinian Cause.
- can be used in way forward to mark ‘what can be done’ against unjust actions of country A against B

Pre Related
➡️ Red Planet Day
- November 28
- 1964: Mariner 4 (space prob) of the USA launched to flyby Mars

➡️ Kolkali
- Folk art of Malabar, KL

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. The shadow of 1979 (classic article on India’s western frontier)
2. What’s the hurry for GM mustard? (Just go through last para, if you don’t understand whole article, to understand the problem writers are stating)
3. The political Economy of Gujarat (note the tables given here)


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