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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.

See what I said y’day is reaffirmed by NK Singh sir today. Try to develop this understanding and don’t follow any article blindly. 😁🤭💪🏻


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.

An article that’s poetic! 😁



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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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🚨 August 8, 2022 : A Monday to pause, reflect and learn🚨


1. Telangana Govt ad

The singular thing about India is it is Plural

Use this wherever you deem fit.

2. Export strategy of India

3Ts: Trade, Tourism and Technology

use in_
1. GS2: International Relations
2. GS3: Trade and economics

3. 4 supply side reasons for Inflation

war, weather, pandemic, export control (export control like palm oil and OPEC supply of oil)

Use in
- GS3: Inflation, price rise and Indian economy

Prelims facts:

Pre fact: borra caves near araku 100 km from Vizag, AP


Reading recommendations

1. Minor minerals preservation in TH
2. Corals article in TH, can have many prelims questions; apt for GS3 SnT
3. If you’re a new aspirant, checkout collegium system article above corals.


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🚨 August 9, 2022 : Rich Tuesday 🚨


1. Kerala floods

Beach nourishment reducing depth of the sea along shore offers permanent solution

Tetrapods are temporary solution. +
Extraction of stones for tetrapods aggravates natural disasters

Use in
- GS3: Disaster Management

2. Revadi culture debate
Note: can collect all revadi culture points from last 2 weeks in one place

- Irrational freebies analogous to bribery: SC
- populist freebies distort informed decision making of the voter: Solicitor General in SC

use in
- GS3: Indian economy


3. Indo-Bangladesh relations

Sonali adhyay (golden chapter)

Use in
- GS2 : Indian relations

Prelims mind map strategy
See the attached image for an interesting value point

Reading recommendations

1. Madhav Gadgil’s article in TH articulates problems and solutions in right manner. Also pick names of committees from here to note their recommendations. Will enrich environment and Disaster Management
Answers

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🚨 August 10, 2022 : Digital Polity Wednesday🚨

1. ‘New voter’

- A new demography that think, act and transact mobile first

- digital constituency of 2002-2006 borns who’ll vote first time in 2024 LS

- techno nationalism with focus on owning data flow and semiconductors supply chain

Reading recommendations

1. A fuller right (IE) by Ria Sawhney & Sugandha Yadav. See if you’ll want to pick the mentioned court cases to enrich your answers.


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🚨 August 11, 2022 : Thursday for Internet transparency: open network🚨

1. ONDC related

- Open source methodology that uses Open specifications and Open network protocols

- Operator driven platform centric model to facilitator driven interoperable decentralised network

terms
- Tele-density: connections per 100 ppl

Reading recommendations

1. A report on page 6 of TH about Bhadrachalam. Check it out for tributaries of Godavari


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🚨 August 12, 2022 : poverty lessons on rich Thursday🚨

1. Poverty

- labharthi constituency
A new voter base of beneficiaries of schemes run by central government that party in power sees as ‘silent’ voter

2 days ago, I posted digital constituency you can connect such ‘constituencies’ to develop wholesome answers

- Poverty is outcome of simultaneous deprivations in the multiple functions

Reading recommendations

Criminal Identification (Procedure) act 2022 in TH. Develop understandings, many prelims questions can also be framed from this

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