🚨 🚨July 28 2022: easy and fun keywords today 🚨🚨

1. Chhattisgarh State Govt Advertisement

ECOWNOMY
- Cow urine and cow dung bought by govt for vermicompost, super compost etc
- ₹300cr+ paid to villages, cattle farmers, women-SHGs & gotham committees

Use in
GS1
Role of women and women's organization, their problems and their remedies
Social empowerment
GS2
Development processes and the development industry the role of NGOs, SHGs,
GS3
Economics of animal rearing

NOTE: See how one keyword can be used across GS1/2/3. This shall show you how the topics are interrelated


2. Samantha Power (USAID chief) speech at IITD
#1 Opaque loans
- In the context of China’s loans to Sri Lanka

Use in
- GS2 Answers on international economics/relations

#2 Multi Ethnic Multi Party democracy
- A feature of Indian democracy that helped India bear challenges firmly

Use in
This is a dynamic keyword & can be used in GS1 society GS2 polity questions and GS3 economics; use it at your discretion

3. VP Sh Naidu’s editorial
Vruksho Rakshati Rakshitah
- Meaning: save the trees and the trees will save you
- In context to World Conservation Day (28/07/2022)

Use in
- GS1: Society (and cultural significance of trees)
- GS3: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment
- GS4: Attitude and Human Values

4. NK Singh (President of 15th Finance Commission)
Fiscal Profligacy to Fiscal rectitude policy
- In context to PM’s ‘revadi’ reference, Mr Singh Sir guides on solutions to adopt for fiscal prudence
- Key phrase use in the way forward or conclusion giving solutions on the type of fiscal policies we need

Use in
GS3 Indian economy

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5. Har Ghar Tiranga Campaign
One nation, One emotion, One Identity
- SMS received from the government

Use in
- GS1
a) Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India
b) Social empowerment, communalism, regionalism & secularism


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🚨 July 29, 2022 🚨

1. BSNL fund infusion
ARPU + ARR
- Average Revenue Per User
- Annual Recurring Revenue

Spectrum
- invisible radio frequencies that serve as vehicle for wires less signals

Use:
- GS3: Infrastructure (Telecom)
- ARPU/ARR also relevant in questions around Startups in India

Note: 3 reasons why govt infused money? (Rural spread, strategic reasons in border areas, push to domestic manufacturers since most of BSNL component manufacturers are Indian)

2. Referendum in Tunisia
bread, freedom and dignity
- values of 2011 Revolution

use
- Dynamic keyword relevant for GS1 society. Can be used in references to emphasise on demands of a common man from society (& if unavailable, will join revolution for!)


3. FED Hike
depth, diffusion and duration
- metrics for measuring economy away from GDP

use
GS3: Indian economy


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🚨 July 31, 2022 🚨

1. Hagia Sophia architecture

architecture is employed for religious, political and symbolic messaging

Use in
1. GS1: architecture
2. Dynamic use in PESTLE or any other framework while answering GS2/3.

2. New JEE Mains centres

- National Testing Agency announced IIT-JEE Mains exam centres in Washington DC, Ottawa, Jakarta, Moscow, Port Louis

- in 2021, there was a centre in Nigeria

use
GS2: Indian diaspora


prelims facts
1. Monkey Pox
- orthopoxvirus family
- double stranded DNA
- FDA approved JYNNEOS vaccine for orthopoxvirus family


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🚨 August 1, 2022 : rich sources today🚨

1. CJI’s speech at NLU Raipur

social engineers & beacon of social justice

- asking new graduates to follow the above used words

Use in
1. Essays and Ethics
2. Dynamic use in PESTLE or any other framework while answering GS2/3.



2. Sanjay Raut’s ED Case

Floor Space Index
Read about this concept

use
GS1: Urbanization



3. reply on jobs data in parliament
structural transformation

use in
- GS3: Indian economy



4. Supply chain future in backdrop of Ukraine-Russia war:

friend-shoring of supply chains

meaning
Supply chains only in countries sharing core principles & values from human rights to digital privacy.

use in
- GS2: International Relations
- GS3: Liberalisation (trade aspects) & Infrastructure (telecom)

prelims facts & reading recommendations

1. Read Bringing Eurasia Closer in TH for Int’l North South Corridor details. Also relevant for Mains GS2: multilateral groupings determinant to Indian interests

2. Ashok Gulati’s article on RBI & tomatoes 🍅 in IE
- Read to understand how food inflation can be out of control of RBI
- no notes needed, read to develop understanding

3. Wheat waiver debate at WTO in TH by Prabhas Ranjan
- no notes needed, read to develop understanding

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🚨 August 2, 2022 : less but impactful keywords today🚨

1. DGP Dilbagh Singh comments on militancy

faceless militancy

- in context of 16-17 year old teenagers w/o past record ‘used’ by terrorists to spread militancy

Use in
1. GS1: Internal Security
- use it as a challenge
- use it in way forward on how to deal with this challenge



2. H’nble Culture Minister Sh G Kishan Reddy’s article on Har Ghar Tiranga

Jan Bhagidari

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use
- GS1: Society
- GS2: govt schemes
- GS3: economic rise/Indian economy
- GS4: governance issues


prelims facts

1. GST components most to least component:
IGST>SGST>CGST>cess


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🚨 August 3, 2022 : interesting phrases today🚨

1. On inflation

Inflation is taxation without legislation

Use in
1. GS3: Economy
2. Essay


2. English as a language

English is a link language, scale tool and software vehicle

use
- GS1: Society
- GS2: govt schemes
- GS3: economic rise/Indian economy

Reading recommendations

1. Jairam Ramesh’s article in TH on Antarctica

2. Translating India in Indian express

3. Dipa Sinha’s counter in context of ‘revadi’ culture/freebies
- Importantly read headings u/ Food grain distribution, PDS Coverage and MGNREGA.
- can skip in perspective for a faulty logic. Incentives to wealth creators put more money in market while subsidies annual recurring bills. Avoid such faulty logics in your thoughts & answers


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🚨 August 4, 2022 : less keywords, more thought provoking discussion🚨


1. On revadi debate, NK Singh (15th FC chair’s comments)

- Unbridled populism

- Support to education and farms are meritorious subsidies and have larger externalities. Free electricity, on the contrary, is environmentally unfriendly and distorts cropping pattern

Read the above comment in relation to what I shared yesterday about Dipa Sinha’s article. Not all subsidies are bad, it’s unbridled populism that’s worrisome.

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Use in
1. GS3: Economy
2. Essay


Reading recommendations

1. Uday Balakrishnan’s article in TH on demography dividend with special focus on 4 pillars that’ll support Indian growth in next decade

2. Read “How Mirabai Chanu, 49 kg, could lift 113 kg” in IE today.

Fine emphasis on technique, years of practice and leveraging your natural advantages to your benefit.

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🚨 August 5, 2022 : one man with courage is a majority // environment🚨


1. On withdrawal of PDP Bill

In context of Puttaswamy judgement:

reaffirmed the fundamental right to privacy for autonomy, dignity & liberty of every citizen

Use in
1. GS2: legislations/govt bills
2. GS3: digital Economy,


2. On democracy

Bulwarks of Democracy:
participation, representation, diversity, transparency, accountability


Vocabulary

- Tabula Rasa
A belief that people are born without mental content and whatever they acquire is via experiences on earth. (Read this in context of legislations. No legislation is perfect and can be amended as new experiences come forward)

Reading recommendations

1. Parameswaran Iyer’s article in IE on LiFE. The imp notes for UPSC from this article are in the image above.



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🚨 August 6, 2022 : less that is more🚨


1. Taiwan-China issue

In context of Chinese ambitions:

China today is a revisionist power looking to challenge regional order

Use in
1. GS2: int’l affairs


Reading recommendations

1. Online dispute resolution article in TH. Take a rough idea on need of the ODR and note the examples in place. See its relation with ONDC

2. Revise Panchamrit and CA around it in IE’s Simply Put page

3. Happyman Jacob’s article in TH can be read but with caution. Towards the end, in my opinion, he has taken a binary view of trade options drawing parallels b/w India and China. Such arguments weaken your answers!



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🚨 August 7, 2022 : 5G Sunday🚨


1. Taiwan-China issue

Two great keywords here, also relevant for essays and GS2 polity/democracy and GS1 World History

Pelosi’s trip agenda on paper human rights, trade & security

democracy v/s autocracy

2. Rajasthan’s Nadis

- traditional rainwater harvesting system
- Ramrawas Kalan model (apt for case studies for GS4 & essay. Also in irrigation for GS3)
- two examples: Deoli and Chan nadi
- found in orans ie sacred groves of local deities

3. 5G auction

Telecom is price sensitive, capital-intensive & competitive market

Use in
- GS3: Infrastructure (telecommunication)

Reading recommendations

1. Read 5G article in TH. Gold mine for Prelims.


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