UPSC CSE Why

"I can do wonders if I study but I lack motivation" or "Motivation nahi hai yaaaar!" Common problem of UPSC aspirants. So, how can you keep yourself motivated every single day? Get some practical tips 👇 https://youtu.be/tT7ecWqC1DU

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pre script: I organise all these keywords in a google doc daily to save your time on note making. How can you access that doc? Check pinned message! Are you on Instagram? Join me there: Instagram.com/csewhy_ 🚨 August 24, 2022 : Long read Wednesday🚨 1. Chabahar Port gateway for Indian trade with Europe, Russia and Commonwealth Independent States. (In context of Chabahar, using Gateway is the key) Use In - GS2: Indian relations - GS3: Indian Economy, Infrastructure etc quote science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge by Carl Sagan Reading recommendations - CP Rajendran’s article on Missing Scientific Temper in TH. - Varun Gandhi’s article on freebies in TH (mainly for Way Out) - If you don’t have notes on disaster management (floods), IE explainer on floods is imperative - Google’s policy around Child Sex Abuse Material (CSAM) PS: appreciate my efforts by reacting to this message ♥️

Blah, [23-08-2022 10:57] pre script: I organise all these keywords in a google doc daily to save your time on note making. How can you access that doc? Check pinned tweet! Are you on Instagram? Join me there: Instagram.com/csewhy_ 🚨 August 23, 2022 : Fun Tuesday🚨 1. On Public Sector Banks (IE explainer in context to Arvind Pangariya's research) socially relevant, cost effective and important for economy Use In - GS3: Indian Economy (NPA and banking crisis) Reading recommendations - MUST READ: Centre-State skewed funds division (TH) with great relevance for GS2 Federalism and Centre State relations - Dr Pandurang Khankhoje details for Pre and GS1 (personalities of Indian freedom struggle) in IE PS: appreciate my efforts by reacting to this message ♥️

“I end up reading newspaper for 2-3 hours and can’t study anything else” How to study newspaper in less than hour? Here are some practical tips: https://youtube.com/shorts/kDxVj-f0NIg?feature=share

pre script: I organise all these keywords in a google doc daily to save your time on note making. How can you access that doc? Check pinned tweet! Are you Instagram? Join me there: Instagram.com/csewhy_ 🚨 August 22, 2022 : Momentum Monday🚨 1. On revari debate competitive populism Race to give max freebies overriding other, by Ashima Goyal. Read her views, good insights Use In - GS3: Indian economy 2. On increase in female scientists at CSIR 13% (2000-01) to 28% (2018-19) use in - GS1: role of women and women org - GS3: Indian economy, developments in science and technology 3. Dr Pandurang Khankhoje - Indian scientist from Maharashtra, instrumental in Mexican Green Revolution (wheat & maize) - LS Speaker Sh Om Birla to unveil Dr Khankhoje’s statue in Mexico this week - This Is government’s attempt to “honour not so known Indian origin heroes outside India” 4. 2x Farmers’ Income: Ashok Gulati‘s article info: Ashok Dalwai committee is related to farmers’ income - solar as 3rd crop - inclusive growth, green growth - “har khet me saur urja” potential next step towards raising awareness about this use in 1. GS3: agriculture, Indian economy PS: appreciate my efforts by reacting to this message ♥️

pre script: I organise all these keywords in a google doc daily to save your time on note making. How can you access that doc? Check pinned tweet! Are you Instagram? Join me there: Instagram.com/csewhy_ 🚨 August 21, 2022 : easy Sunday🚨 1. Mare liberum free sea for every one Meaning^ Unique keyword for diverse use in high seas Use In - GS2: Int’l affairs (UNCLOS, South China Sea, Indo-Pacific, Taiwan crisis) Ethics case study consideration Finnish PM Sanna Marin viral videos of partying in boisterous way - What’re ethical concerns of top political leader in the country? - Think from drugs perspective, compromising positions, manipulation and persuasion, attitude and aptitude questions and ethics in international relation in backdrop of Ukraine crisis and NATO membership application of Finland - brainstorm other dimensions wrt syllabus, consider scene if it was an Indian PM, try to place yourself in shoes of Sanna Marin and Opposition leader of Finland PS: appreciate my efforts by reacting to this message ♥️

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A few days ago an aspirant asked me: "How to deal with insecurities during UPSC prep?" She said her friend is moving to London and she has FOMO. So, how do you deal with Insecurity and FOMO in UPSC prep? Find out practical tips in this video👇 https://youtube.com/shorts/he-M6MyRZLU?feature=share

pre script: I organise all these keywords in a google doc daily to save your time on note making. How can you access that doc? Check pinned tweet! 🚨 August 20, 2022 : quick notes🚨 1. Welfarism - new welfarism Providing private goods- toilets, gas cylinders, income supplements etc GS2: welfare schemes 2. India @75 looking at 100 vigyan gaon ki aur (science towards villages) On need of science and research in national development with rural India in mind 3. Human milk bank in Nepal for at-risk infants Quote “Extinction is the rule, survival is the exception” Carl Sagan PS: appreciate my efforts by reacting to this message ♥️

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pre script: I organise all these keywords in a google doc daily to save your time on note making. How can you access that doc? Check pinned tweet! 🚨 August 19, 2022 : quick notes🚨 1. India- AFG relations - people to people and civilisational links said former AFG President HE Hamid Karzai 2. QUAD Any opposition to QUAD is unilateralist opposition Both 1/2 use in GS2 Indian international relations Quote Not going to school, we are killing ourselves and our future (Hamid Karzai) Ethics Case Study Brainstorming - 1000cr freebies by Dolo manufacturers to doctors - Excise inspector sought 6 Bottles of alcohol from retailer for minister’s program in a viral audio PS: appreciate my efforts by reacting to this message ♥️

Made an important video on how to identify the keywords relevant to UPSC in speeches of the Prime Minister. It is a skill and you can learn it too. How? Watch this video! 👇:) https://youtu.be/Egi95nugNYc

pre script: I organise all these keywords in a google doc daily to save your time on note making. How can you access that doc? Check pinned tweet! 🚨 August 18, 2022 : quick notes🚨 1. Taiwan crisis- Stanly John’s article of TH: read it for good insight China’s military endeavours are aimed at garnering regional hegemony. Regional hegemony to global superpower use in - GS2: International relations 2. Data legislation’s - India’s data for India’s development - Countries like US, South Africa, Indonesia, India, Indonesia strive to Protect, Monetise & Leverage data collected within their territories for domestic purposes use in GS3: infrastructure & related legislation, digital India, Indian economy quote Of all the aspects of social misery, nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment reading recommendations - Alex Ellis’s (British High Commissioner to India) article in IE relevant to Indian Diaspora GS2 - Arctic amplification explainer in TH PS: appreciate my efforts by reacting to this message ♥️

pre script: I organise all these keywords in a google doc daily to save your time on note making. How can you access that doc? Check pinned tweet! 🚨 August 17, 2022 : diversity today!🚨 1. Byju in IE a) India is now a can-do nation b) solving for India = solving for 1/6th of Humanity use in - diverse use to relevant topics in syllabus 2. Remission in Bilkis Bano Case Remission of punishment is domain of Executive and not Judiciary. (Imp point, can frame Pre questions) 3. Period poverty - Scotland first place in world to offer free period products to anyone who needs them to end period poverty - PickupMyPeriod app launched to find nearest location to find period products Use in - GS1: role of women and women organisations, their problems and challenges - GS2: welfare schemes - GS3: can be recommended as solution to increasing women participating in economy quote To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. Gandhi reading recommendations - Ethanol Blending explained in TH - Bijay Panda in TH on importance of research spending PS: appreciate my efforts by reacting to this message ♥️

One of my friends find it cliche to mention Vasudaiva Kutumbakam in essays. “What are the alternatives?” I asked on Twitter He shared this in replies. Sharing it here for y’all to benefit from these key words! :) Link to his Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/kaleidoscope_hq

Newspaper editorials are important not just for GS but also a golden opportunity to improve your essays. How? Find answer in my new video. This video teaches you how to read editorials to improve essays for UPSC Mains. Watch now👇 https://youtube.com/shorts/jpVP0k2_T_Q?feature=share

Friends, the keywords and phrases relevant to UPSC from PM’s I-day speech are here. You can also read them in one place (and take screenshot) from this google document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bZdGapi9dJDtv4kyRnxq22PD3fiAg2vsDUuGW2dQKYg/edit?usp=sharing

Topics like Panch pran and other keywords of PM speech to be posted soon. :)

pre script: I organise all these keywords in a google doc daily to save your time on note making. How can you access that doc? Check pinned tweet! 🚨 August 16, 2022 : Another dawn🚨 1. C Rajamohan Sir in IE On way to 2047, Delhi need to temper its soaring nationalism with geopolitical sensitivity and combine pursuit of multilateralism with coalitions of like minded countries use in - GS2: Indian diplomacy 2. Points of contention between Armenia and Azerbaijan wrt Nagorno-Karabakh - border - transport routes - ethnic population in the region - prisoner exchange Task: figure out geography of 2 countries on map and their positions wrt Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Russia, Iran and Turkey. quote History is written by victors and future? By the hopefuls! reading recommendations - Rajamohan’s article in IE - RK Vij’s article on IPC (wrt debate about rewriting penal code PS: appreciate my efforts by reacting to this message ♥️