"UPSC toh crack kar lu par English itni acchi nahi hai"

A common problem for many aspirants.
Sharing some actionable and practical tips to improve your English in the link below!

https://csewhy.substack.com/p/81-practical-tips-to-improve-english

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🚨February 10 2023 | Friday🚨

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4E challenge to Green Hydrogen
- Electrolyser
- Energy Source
- End Use
- Endogenous Sources

Pre related

1. India France joint exercises
- Navy: Varuna
- Air Force: Garuda
- Army: Shakti


Quote
Life's most persistent and urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?' Martin Luther King Jr.

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Green Hydrogen Challenge (note 4Es)
2. 69A of IT Act (and how it is diff from 66A)
3. Nord Stream
4. Second flight of ISRO's mini vehicle, with hope, promise on board

TH:
1. Exploring the blue in India-France partnership
2. Locating China in the Russia-Ukraine war (must read paragraph: what is the rationale behind China's emerging attitude?)


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🚨February 11 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Scientific Interests
- wrt GMRT, a good keyword to line of words like 'national interest'


Pre Related
Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT)
- 30 fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45m diameter
- Project of Dept of Atomic Energy operated u/ Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)
- Designed on SMART concept: Stretch Mesh Attached to Rope Trusses
- Located in Pune district's Narayangaon area.

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. The starved city
2. The Pakistan Precipice
3. Article 105, limits to free speech in Parliament, and what SC has ruled
4. Lithium 'inferred' in JnK- how significant is this find, what next
5. The India Canada reset

TH
1. India's law and order matrix needs a reboot (good article on Internal security)


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This one discovery has potential to reset new world order for next 5 decades (and more)

However, it comes with new challenges.
We’ll potentially see a new wave of insurgency with China & Pak hand in glove.

Start thinking of things from 360 perspectives like one above.

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🚨February 12 2023 | Sunday🚨


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Keyword: Different Strokes for Different Folks
India's new effort to tailor made tourism offerings for diff countries


Pre Related

1. Central Board of Film Certification
- Statutory body u/ Cinematograph Act 1952
- Ministry: Information & Broadcasting
- HQ: Mumbai
- Non-official members + Chairman (all appointed by GoI)

2. Yanomami: Indigenous people of South American Amazon forest(s)

3. As demand for horizontal reservation sees surface among LGBTQIA+ community, it is a good time to revise the important court cases about the community. I have them all documented in a blog post: https://csewhy.substack.com/p/73-sc-cases-on-lgbtqia-rights


Quotes
No matter how you slice it, climate change will alter what we eat in the future


Reading Recommendations

TH:
1. Why are the Turkey earthquakes so deadly?
2. What made MSCI act on Adani stocks? (read for Free Float)
3. How is govt. ramping up border infrastructure?



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It is often in news about how Kali/Sarda river forms the Western Border of Nepal-India.

However, one less mentioned river is that forms the Eastern Border is river Mechi (in the circle)

You will find Kosi-Mechi interlink in news often but seldom Mechi's location as international border discussed.

React 🤯 if you are learning about this border river for the first time! :)

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It is a 21 Days Challenge of No Screen after 9 pm.

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- wind up your work by 9pm
- turn off your phone at 9!

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🚨February 13 2023 | Monday🚨

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Pre related

MIIRA:
- Millets International Initiative for Research and Awareness
- to coordinate millets research programmes at the international level

VARANASI
- The city of Varanasi is named so after two rivers on its North and South end
- The rivers are Varuna and Assi (Varuna + Assi = Varanasi)
- Both are minor tributaries of river Ganga
- In news cz of Assi's poor health and city waste dropped in the river

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. The pull of fast fashion (understand economics and behaviour)
2. Saving the investor (good recos for the regulatory bodies)
3. Protected speech of MPs: its history, reasons for curbs (don't miss this article, can see a Q from it)
4. What farm exports data show (note the trends: what's increasing and what's decreasing)

TH:
1. India-U.S. space cooperation, from handshake to hug (take notes, imp points)
2. The demand for a Greater Tripraland by TIPRA Mohta (learn about the demand)
3. What are microLED displays, and why is Apple shifting to it? (quick read to understand basics)


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🚨February 14 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Multi-generational process
- Call for urban planning to be a multi generational process over election cycle

Pre Related

Geo heritage sites
- Sites containing geo-relics, geological structures, and geomorphic landforms of national and int'l interest
- GSI declared 32 geo-heritage sites for protection & maintenance
- India is needed to have law to protect world cultural and natural heritage as part of UNESCO convention

Quote
If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.
- MS Swaminathan


Reading Recommendations

IE:

1. The Joshimath warning
2. A force for all theatres
3. Gov's inaction in Jharkhand
4. How a ChatGPT based chatbot can help rural India? (pg 23)

TH:
1. Hill or city, urban planning can not be an afterthought
2. Tackling postpartum depression (read just the gist)



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🚨February 15 2023 | Wednesday🚨

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Energy Poverty
Self explanatory keyword

Language
- A vehicle of culture
- A living organism

Prelims perspective

1. Geo relics and Geo heritage
- Geo relic: A relic or material of geological significance (eg. sediments, rocks, minerals fossils)
- Geo heritage: the sites with geological importance. (eg. Volcanogenic bedded Barytes of Mangampeta in AP, Akal Fossil Wood Park in RJ, Lonar Lake in MH)
- Geo heritage sites declared by Geological survey of India
- Fossil wealth of dinosaur remains of MP/GJ, Marine fossils of Kutch & Spiti, Stromatolites of RJ/MP are of great geoheritage & geotourism value.


Quote
Everything digital must be accessible to everyone (in context of specially abled)


Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Mumbai, Dhaka, London, NY in line of threat from rising sea-level, says WMO report
2. Green Transition enabler
3. Japan and the Global South
4. The missing Dy. Speaker: the post and what the constitution says (VERY IMP article)
5. High Altitude balloons (SnT)
6. Geo-heritage and Geo-relics

TH:
1. Leveraging JnK's Lithium Reserves (Imp article, blog coming on it soon. Subscribe with email: csewhy.substack.com)



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🚨February 16 2023 | Thursday🚨

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Windfall Profits
Unanticipated spike in earnings of an entity resulting from an exogenous event (which could be one-off and/or prolonged)


Quote
Modesty is the color of virtue.

Reading Recommendations

IE
1. Survey v/s Search: Diff b/w IT action (read difference)
2. Roche Limit
3. In BJP poll manifesto for Nagaland, why special focus on eastern region? (understand the problem)
4. Flying high (by Minister Reddy)

TH
1. Taxing windfall profits of oil companies
2. Understanding India's Mental Healthcare Act 2017
3. A manifesto for tackling the silent pandemic of AMR



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🚨February 17 2023 | Friday🚨

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Engineers, English and Youth
3 key fundamentals of growth in India that have potential to drive global optimism

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Govt. ends age-65 cap for receiving organ from donor (pg1, read to know about NOTP/NOTTO)
2. Factors behind moderating CAD, how it will impact markets (best article on CAD macroeconomics)
3. Empowering the MP

TH:
1. Deep sea fish conservation must not go adrift


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🚨February 18 2023 | Saturday🚨

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Ecology Mobility
- Shared by IFS Praveen Kaswan on Twitter
- About use of tech to track animals' movement

Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Drone trial success boosts rural healthcare access (pg 9)
2. Special Marriage Act (pg 13) [revise]
3. SC to hear Sena dispute (pg 13) [revise Nabam Rabia]
4. Chatbots aren't sentinent (pg13)
5. Learning in an AI world (pg15) [Read this to understand upskilling yourself in competitive world as an aspirant]


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8 secrets about Mains Answer Checking only a successful UPSC candidate like IAS Jitin Yadav can teach you👇🏻

https://youtu.be/Y0JuYYHXviQ

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🚨February 19 2023 | Sunday🚨

Meteorites are in news again. Learn diff b/w meteor, meteorite, asteroids etc in this blog post:

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

Stats

1. Aviation
- India: 3rd largest domestic aviation market in world
- 7% annual Long Term passenger growth expected by 2041
- Daily train traffic: 2.3 cr people
- Daily air traffic: 3.6 lac people
- 1% shift from rail -> air doubled latter market

Pre related

1. Aubrites
- Igneous rocks, a meteorite
- Made of Exotic materials not found on earth
- Comprises of Orthopyroxene; [Pyroxene are silicates (silica tetrahedra SiO4)]

2. Mudumalai
- Ombatta waterbody
- Moyar waterfall on Moyar river here
- One of highest leopard density in India
- Plum headed Parakeet, Indian roller found here
- Indian wild dogs, Spotted deer seen in fair numbers


Reading recommendations

TH:
1. Underwater noise emission pose threat to marine life (pg6)
2. Rhododendrons (pg9)
3. Environmental surveillance for Avian Influenza is vital (pg11)
4. Second Aubrite meteorite found in India in 170 yrs (pg11)
5. Is there a need for an extra dose of polio? (Pg12)
6. How is the stock market regulated in India(Pg12)
7. India’s eyes and ears on the China border (pg13)


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🚨February 20 2023 | Monday🚨

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Pre related

1. Standard Model Theory
- Describes properties of all subatomic particles
- Classifies them into different groups
- Determines how they are affected by 3 of 4 fundamental forces (Nuclear (weak & strong), EM force)
- It can't explain gravity

2. Teja Chilli of Telangana
- Famous for Culinary, Medicinal and other uses
- Largest producer: Khammam district of Telangana
- Main ingredient in Pepper spray
- Other products:
a) Oleoresin: natural chili extract
b) Paste: protective layer beneath ships in Asian countries


Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. The MP model in agriculture
2. Sticky inflation & Jan spike: causes, consequences
3. Name, symbol to Shinde: How EC reached its decision in Shiv Sena dispute

TH:
1. The curious case of the disqualification of a politician
2. How is India addressing sickle cell anaemia?


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🚨February 21 2023 | Tuesday🚨

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Quote

1. "The foreign medium has made our children practically foreigners in their own land" - Mahatma Gandhi
2. We must teach science in our mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate. - CV Raman
3. Mother tongue is eyesight while other languages are a spectacle; spectacles can function properly only if there's eyesight - Venkaiah Naidu
4. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation Oscar Wilde


Reading Recommendations

IE:
1. Our languages, our selves
2. Millions in India, Pak at risk from glacial lake floods, says study

TH:
1. Slow progress to creating a safe workplace for women (spcl read: FIXING GOALS para)
2. The microbiome link to autism disorder (quick read to form an opinion)
3. Can we use moon dust to slow down global warming (understand the issues involved here)
4. More sabre-rattling, more isolation: militarisation of SCS


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