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🚨August 15 2023 | Tuesday🚨
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Mains Keywords✍🏻
1. Sangacchadwam
An expression to reflect moving forward together, a Sanskrit expression
2.
Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas, Sabka Prayas
An expression by GoI to take a collaborative approach incorporating all sections of the society
3.
Lagrange Points
Referred to be parking spots in space because gravitational pull of celestial objects equals force required to keep it in an orbit
Mains Keys🗝
(Use in answers as examples)
1. Democracy in ancient India (examples)
• Rig Veda mentions
Gramini, a village head employed by king for civil & military purposes
• Atharva Veda mentions s
abha, samiti, babhapati and sabkasad
• Buddhists had
sanghas and
Vinay Pitaka had references to democratic procedures regulating meetings of monks
•
Gana Sanghas, as described by Greeks in India, had an elected
raja who reported to the assembly
•
Arthashastra offers comprehensive account of village admin
• Evidences of Village
panchayats seen in Chola and Mauryan rule
Pre related📝
1.
Aditya L1
• First space based Indian Observatory to study sun
• Won't actually go to sun but create space observatory at a point from where sun can be observed even during eclipses
• L1 suffix reflects the Lagrange point that Aditya will be sitting at!
• It is in collab with multiple educational and research institutes across the country
• AIM:
- To study solar corona, solar emissions, solar winds & flares, Coronal Mass Ejections (CMS)
- To carry out solar imagine round the clock
(Note: Closest man made object to sun was Parker Probe from NASA)
2.
IITs' campuses abroad, click here for details in an old CSEWhy Message
Quote(s)💭
• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious than to be able to decide - Napoleon Bonaparte
• What the west considered our Achilles heel, i.e. our diversity, has proven to be India's greatest strength
Reading Recommendations🗞
IE
1. Judges will instil confidence when their actions..... (pg1, by CJI)
2. Take our campuses to world (IMP article by a Dean of IIT-M)
3. Why doctors are protesting rule to prescribe generic drugs (learn the issue)
4. Wildfires in Hawaii kill 96: What's happening (note diff impacts of wildlife fires)
5. Behind TN vs Centre over NEET, a larger equity & federalism battle (learn the issue)
TH
1. The new bills to overhaul criminal laws
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