🇮🇳 States #stats as per Census 2011 for #UPSC

1. Population Density👪
- Highest: BR
- Lowest: Arunachal

2. Population👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
- Highest: UP
- Lowest: Sikkim

3. Sex ratio♂♀️
- Highest: KL
- Lowest: HR

4. Literacy👩‍🏫👩‍🎓
- Highest: KL
- Lowest: BR

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🚨 December 13 2022 | Tuesday🚨

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Reading Recommendations

TH:
1. Big tech & need India for ex ante regulation
2. Politics of National Interest
3. Weighing in on the efficacy of female leadership in government

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Friends, I am working on an exclusive document for GS4 Ethics

It is a 24-25 page document and will have:

- Definition of all the key terms in the syllabus
- Real life example(s) for you to understand better
- Special focus on terms from PYQs

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Friends, you are already aware about my initiative where the GS3 Free notes are being made public one by one. 😎

In this series, the next set of notes are now live on my blog for: Storage, Transport and Marketing of Agri Produce. Go through these notes and try writing PYQs on this topic.🥰

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Friends, I am hosting IPS Ms Nirja Shah tomorrow (14th December 2022, 1800 hours/6 pm) on December episode of The Aspirants Show.

If you have any UPSC related questions that you'd want to ask her, please mail them to whycse@gmail.com

I'd ensure all your queries will be answered.

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🚨 December 14 2022 | Wednesday🚨

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Akhand Bharat Ubharta Bharat (Ubharta= rising)

Healing, harmony and hope India's role in post pandemic world as G20 chair


Pre Centric
Elo Ratings
- Given in football
- Used to measure a team's relative strength
- Assigns a rating to each nation, using results of previous int'l games
- Adds weight based on the opponent's strength and makes adjustments for home team's advantage and goal difference
- Different from FIFA World Cup rating

Quote
Imitation is the best form of flattery

Stats
Only 3.6% women in CAPFs (as per Parliamentary Committee)

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. The new money challenge (GS3, GS2)
2. An Indic G20 narrative (GS2, GS1)
3. The fusion energy breakthrough (GS3)
4. How JnK's proposed family ID will work, and why it is being criticised (GS2)

TH:
1. The rise of rural manufacturing (GS3)
2. A conservation bill that endangers forest rights
3. Analysing US-China Bilateral ties
4. The enigma of mythical stories and intense art and dance forms.


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Friends, in case you missed The Aspirants Show episode with IPS Nirja Shah, you can hear the podcast on Spotify.

Save it for your tomorrow's evening walk or free time. Do tweet to me your response and views on this electrifying podcast. 😍

Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1m4xtVyGNmgOm7jEjVAZFa?si=E5-EfhF1Q6WV4W-UNctMfQ

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🚨 December 15 2022 | Thursday

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Applied Artificial Intelligence
An ethical use of AI for the betterment of humanity

F.I.R.E.= Financial Independence, Retire Early
A new concept emerging in Indian millionaires by the age of 40

Quote
1. Societies that suppress questioning voices find, in time, that their capacity to innovate is damaged (in context of crackdowns in China)

Pre related

GI tag sought for Beypore URU
- A boat handcrafted by skilled artisans in Beypore, Kerala
- Made of premium wood w/o using any modern techniques
- Symbol of KL's trade relations with Gulf countries
- 1-4 years taken to build one uru

Reading recommendations

IE:
1. A silent revolution
2. A bond that holds firm
3. Artic heat (climate change on page 15)
4. India's trade with China (take a rough look to see what's happening here)
5. Beyond OPS vs NPS, question of India's broken pensions system (a thoughtful read looking beyond both OPS & NPS)

TH:
1. Census as a mirror of past and present
2. How gene therapy could cure cancer
3. Why are India's slowing exports a cause of concern (read the gist)
4. The race of two Asian giants: the story of India and China so far (fun story & a good read)


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Friends, Millets are hot in news and an important topic for both Pre and Mains.

I’ve documented Story of Millets on my blog for y’all to refer.

Visit, read and learn 👇🏻

https://csewhy.substack.com/p/60-millets-millets-millets-kya-hai

Bifurcation of Punjab is one of the saddest episodes of Indian history

The ‘real’ Punjab here had Haryana and parts of Himachal Pradesh in it too

Thinking of impact from syllabus perspective
- GS1: Heritage, Art, Culture and Society
- GS2: Polity & Social Justice
- GS3: Economy, Biodiversity, Security, DM

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🚨 December 16 2022 | Friday 🚨

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5 vertical Infra growth on LAC:
- Habitat
- Aviation
- Road
- Operational Infrastructure
- Security Infrastructure

Reading recommendations

IE:
- Bangladesh reaches out to IMF: What's wrong with its economy?
- LAC: past tense, present uncertain
- The key is exports

TH:
- What are Kerala's University Laws (Amendment) bills?

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🚨 December 17 2022 | Saturday 🚨

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Dual Cost on the developing countries around climate change: (GS3 Env)
- shift away from fossils
- climate catastrophe (think of Pakistan floods costing $30bn)

Captive Non Public Network (GS3 Infra)
- Private network ONLY for the firm's use
- Relies on high-frequency, low wavelength airwaves
- Ideal for institutions like factories, manufacturing plant, hospitals, universities etc

Stats
- 92% of excess historical emissions attributed to developed countries
- UNEP: $160-340 bn by 2030 needed for climate adaptation

Pre related
GI tag to 5 agri products of KL, total 17 from state now.
- Beans
- Red Gram
- Sesame
- Garlic
- Snap Melon

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. At Kota, a collective failure (read for solutions)
2. Funding the transition (easy words, rich content)
3. Our response to Tawang (read to trace the history of India-China conflict
4. Keeping the net neutral (most imp article on this topic)
5. Hooch (read for the science of Hooch and role of ethanol and methanol)
6. NASA's global surface water survey satellite
7. When courts go on vacation (take a note of committees mentioned here)


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Every #UPSC aspirant must have some sort of physical activity in their daily schedule. It keeps one sane! 😇

I am regular to the gym and walk 10k steps daily. 🏃🏻🏋🏻

If you don’t still have physical schedule, get a curated Workout & Nutrition Plan 💪🏻

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🚨 December 18 2022 | Sunday 🚨

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China US rivalry keywords relevant for GS2:

1. Phased modernisation of China
China's strategy to achieve centrality in international system

2. Perception of rivalry as democracy v/s authoritarianism

3. 3 pillar approach of the USA towards China: Invest, Align and Compete

4. 5 Noes previously mentioned by POTUS Biden:

i) Not seek a new cold war
ii) Not seek to change China's system
iii) Not to revitalize its alliances against China
iv) Not to disturb the cross-strait status quo
v) Not look for conflict with China


IE:
What are gold bonds? (Revise)


TH:
- Breast Cancer is not a ‘national emergency’ (Pg8)
- The challenges of quantum computing
- How can mRNA vaccines help fight cancer?
- NASA’s global water surface survey from space
- Why banyan/peepal trees live long?



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The decade will be a Techade!🤖

Here’s a look at rankings of on digital indices📈

#1 Data Consumption
#1 Digital Payment Volume
#2 Social Media Users
#2 Internet Users
#3 Unicorns

Quote these stats in relevant UPSC Mains answers. 🥰

#Messi is the veteran #UPSC aspirant who cracks it with single digit rank in his last attempt! 😂🤩😛😂

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🚨 December 19 2022 | Monday 🚨

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1. We need to shift from Urban development to Managing Urbanisation for a sustainable future.

2. Women, Life and Freedom (Iran's protest mantra, can be used in GS)

Quote
- The moment has arrived; but will we lose it because the lamp has not been kept trimmed for the welcome and the ears are sealed to the call? - Sri Aurobindo

- That government is best which governs least by Henry David Thoreau

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Review Petition
2. Acid Attacks: crime, law, regulation and compensation
3. INS Mormugao
4. Meeting Indian safety but failing globally, a toss up b/w norms (read through for vehicle safety)

TH:
1. India's crushing court backlogs, out of the box reform (Most refreshing article I have read today)
2. Good governance beyond motherhood and apple pie
3. Deepfake technology: how and why China is planning to regulate it
4. Decriminalisation of offences u/ GST (take a note, if possible)


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🚨 December 20 2022 | Tuesday 🚨

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Green steel
Manufacturing steel without the use of fossil fuels

Data: Valuable resource & potential weapon

Sportswashing
Similar to greenwashing term asked in Prelims. Sportswashing is letting other things 'safely' hide under the success, glamour and emotion of sports (In case: Qatar forced labor, human rights violations and laborers' deaths in constructing stadiums that saw Messi-est games.)

Quote

1. The nation that leads in AI (and so data) will lead the world -Vladimir Putin
2. India is perhaps only country that became data rich before becoming economically rich - Nandan Nilekani

Prelims/Tribe in news:
Betta-Kuruba, a tribe from Karnataka

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. The era of free data is over
2. Trends in Organ donation

TH:
1. A role for Indian in a WWW (a fun read)
2. The cost to the country just for savings in CTC (insightful read, realise the fault lines)
3. The minimum tax on big businesses
4. What are carbon markets and how do they operate?
5. Contextualising Ambedkar's idea of moral democracy (highly relevant for PSIR students)



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🚨 December 21 2022 | Wednesday🚨

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Quote

- For language lie at the core of the human identity, and to temper with that is either poetry or treason - Eagleton
- Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is orphan

- must haves for Fog: moisture + low temp

Reading Recommendations

IE:
- The biodiversity commitment
- 60 years on, the challenge
- Primary healthcare 2.0
- Judicial independence, above all

TH:
- The new normal of Indo Pacific consultation
- A new global biodiversity framework



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