I’ve taught economy for years

My UPSC Economy series on YT still gets many views after ages

Thinking of restarting it
And making a separate channel for it

Please do share your thoughts on how do you think I can go about it 🙏🙏

Doston..
Almost ek saal hai ab 2027 ke liye

How’s the prep
How’s the planning
Have you started
Resource list ready ?
And are you changing anything after seeing this year’s pre ?

I’ll also be discussing the same today evening in a closed group workshop on zoom for UPSC CSE 2027

Link is here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oxzCxzdhRxeGLwV8ARfECA

5pm
Today evening

Let’s plan it
Let’s make it happen 🙏

These are the updates for Sleepy’s paid Sociology Courses:

Mains 2026:
- First Test tomorrow of the Mains Test Series (the answers will be evaluated)
- We have covered chapter 1,2 and 3 in our Daily Answer Writing Initiative and in Crash Course

Foundation 2027:
- Live offline batch to start in 4 days (that is on 10th June)
- It can also be enrolled as Live Online batch
- This is the only Live Sociology Batch of the year
- In Batch 6 (Pre-Recorded batch), we have completed NCERTs in the first week and we’ll be starting with Chapter 5 on Monday

I am completely dedicated and immersed in making you push yourself and give your best attempt. Join hands if you want to make it happen in the most structured and deep way.

UPSC 2026 candidate be like : Wherever I go after this Pre, I see everyone consoling me 😭😭

Hello Doston

Aap Agar Chandigarh Se Hain yaa Chandigarh Ke Around Hai, We are conducting a Main 2026 Target Workshop.

Tomorrow, 7th June (Sunday) - Offline Only

Address : 1st floor, Punjab Kesari Building in Chandigarh Sector 25, Chandigarh

Miss Mat Karna If You Are Appearing for This Mains.

Scan to Register
or Link : https://lp.sleepyclasses.com/offline-mains-2026-qa

Guys.. sharing something personal

Today, was a tiring day
And in fact a very responsibly tiring day

Today, there were students from Odisha, Banaras, Jharkhand and a few other places

Some came alone, some with their parents, and then in the evening, some could not come but only sent their parents

As a teacher, it made me really happy that someone travelled across the country to learn from me and my team

But more than happiness, I think it is now bringing in a great sense of responsibility

It’s not the same as travelling to Delhi

People have been coming to Delhi since forever and I don’t know how but parents in their minds think it’s important to go to Delhi and they agree when their kid asks for it

But coming to Chandigarh ?
I mean where even is Chandigarh on the map ?

Who is sleepy ?
Is that even a name of a serious coaching ?
Are you sure you are taking the right decision ?

Then thinking of dropping their kid here for a year and trusting the process ?

Suddenly I’m feeling I’m not only carrying the responsibility of students’ academic excellence but also their parents trust

I’ll be absolutely straight forward here that I’ve never felt THIS responsible in online mode ever

I mean I’ve always been dead serious about academics and competing to win and I’m glad my team carries the same DNA

But this is something different

Trust is a heavy thing
Every student who walks in carries dreams
A lot of sacrifices by their parents
And the faith that their time here will matter

Guys, I’m grateful for all this
And most importantly for the love

And guys, I want to tell you here that I and everyone in team sleepy will be even more committed to being worthy of it 🙏

We want to make sure that you arise, awake and stop not till the goal is achieved

I just want to tell you that, we’ll not let you down 🙏🙏

Hand on your heart

Sach sach batao:
1. yeh article kisne kisne padhaa hai
2. yeh article nahin padha par news pataa hai

https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2233518&reg=48&lang=2

Will help me plan my eco series better

Ayush sir, Manmeet ma’am and I (Shekhar Dutt) will be conducting a decision-making workshop in our Chandigarh Offline Center today at 12pm

The theme is simple and something that aims to get you on a path that gets you a rank

How UPSC Mains Actually Rewards Thinking: The GS + Sociology Advantage

See you there 🙏

And ya, made a tracker for you to stay focused 🙏

https://youtube.com/shorts/su_IPyCcFN8?si=Oq-fAWAXJdt7lyvP

Bachon answers mein thinkers kitne daalne hai is an age old question

Many toppers use a lot of them, many only a few

So, my only advice is to make the answer flow

Make the answer an answer and not just explaining the topic

Always remember, we never answer a topic, we answer a question 🙏

Create your own identity
Write a lot of answers
Get them reviewed
See if you are able to answer the questions

Don’t be arbitrarily fooled by “add these many thinkers” or “don’t add thinkers” debate

Also, you can follow this simple plan to make yourself better at Socio and make Socio help you get a rank

Information collection
⬇️
Conceptual Understanding
⬇️
Multi dimensional understanding
⬇️
Understanding the demands of the question
⬇️
High quality answers
⬇️
Selection

Write
And your own topper self will appear 🙏

Answer writing is the only way to develop your own self 🙏

Write and you’ll become right for UPSC 😃

If asked to write an essay on it, what will be your main points

One of the best quotes read in a long time, possibly a near future essay topic, this is from the booksets of Dune:

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them”

There are not many toppers I have come across who have improved their Mains score by 100 marks and that too in a year.

But, as god has it, there's one who did it this year.
She's a brilliant example of how to excel in Mains and rise from ashes like a phoenix.

If you ever get a chance to ask her a question, what would that be?

Join us live on Zoom
to learn how Aakriti improved
her GS Mains score by 100 marks
Interact with Ayush Sir,
UPSC Master Mentor who helped her a lot.
10 June 2026 | 4:00 PM

Link:

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/UAxc4rdsSk6qebqJV_UN0g

Let’s learn guys, let’s learn…
Zoom link shared below

She’s almost pulled an impossible
Let’s learn and make it happen again and again

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/UAxc4rdsSk6qebqJV_UN0g

Schedule for tomorrow:

2pm - GS for 2027
4pm - Aakriti shares her experience
5pm - Sociology orientation for 2027

UPSC is asking certain really deep questions (of optional level) in GS

Sharing one such topic for Social Issues that can be asked but the topic belongs to Sociology Optional

(Will share more such topics from other subjects in coming days)

Slowly but steadily, this is the level which we should be aiming at if we aim to ace the GS Mains 🙏

UPSC has asked this question in Sociology Optional Paper

Some important points to note:

Deniz Kandiyoti’s idea of Patriarchal Bargain

That older women gain limited authority after years of subordination, so they may control younger women to protect their status

Also note the words like
Patrilocality

Sociological insight: Since the bride moves to the husband’s home, she becomes isolated and dependent, making her vulnerable to control

Another important insight from this article is Gender Socialisation

Where girls are taught obedience, sacrifice and adjustment, and later reproduce the same norms for other women

Bourdieu calls this Symbolic Violence

(It is the idea that patriarchal control appears normal as “tradition,” “family honour” or “good behaviour”)

Extra point:
Gramsci’s idea of Hegemony

That, patriarchy survives not only through male domination but also through consent and enforcement by women themselves

Will keep sharing more insights as and when an important article appears in The Hindu, Indian Express or EPW

Keep following Sleepy Sociology and let’s keep topping the exam while enjoying the subject ✌️