Decoding UPSC: Dr Jayesh Khaddar
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Recently, there were editorials on women’s low labour force participation rates: I have repeatedly asserted that issues related to women is a very high yielding theme for the mains exam and often from GS paper 1-4 topics are directly or indirectly linked to gender theme to frame questions.
Hence, needless to say, it would be very useful to prepare this theme comprehensively. This handout provide details of the factors responsible for low LFPR for women and they way forward to addressing them.
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As you go through this topic: Forest Conservation Act (Amendment) 2023: you must have a background understanding of Forest Conservation Act 1980 and related laws in India.
1. Forest. Related matters come under the concurrent list in India and thus both central and state government can make laws on it.
2. Certain forests are “notified as forests” and any diversion of notified forest lands for infrastructure, industrial purposes etc requires prior approval from government and compensatory afforestation to compensate for loss of forest area due to to developmental activities.
3. 1996 (Godavarman )judgement of Supreme Court said even if the central government does not notify a forest like area “as a notified forest”, for the purpose of forest conservation act, the state government is free to classify a land as forest land on the basis of its own criteria.
These points are also relevant for prelims examination as environmental legislations are a high yielding topic for prelims.
The post will help you make sense of the quote: we often suffer more in imagination than in reality: Seneca.
The content of the post will provide useful insights that can be used in essay as well.
P.S: it should give you some comfort also in dealing with high pressure, anxiety prone situations like competitive exams
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Seneca was a stoic philosopher of ancient rome who argued that people often worry in excess about a loss of social status, not realising that such a perceived loss of social status may not be as humiliating as we imagine it to be. Paradoxically, once we do loose that elusive social staus in the eyes of others, we may at last be freed from constantly living up to the expectations of others and our lives may take turn for the better. In fact, we may at last be free to pursue new goals without living under the constant gaze of others.
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Ukraine has recently bombed the Kerch strait, how is this news significant for India. More importantly how should you process such news from exam point of view?
the short answer is- try to develop a map based understanding on these issues: often questions around such map based understanding of geopolitical flashpoints are framed in prelims examination.
useless facts such as the length of the bridge and other details must be avoided. Try to locate the Kerch strait, crimea, Sea of Azov, Black Sea , Mediterranean Sea, their borders and neighbours that is more important from exam point of view.
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Good morning everyone: hope you are doing well: Here is the big idea on international relations this week: Mineral security- India’s entry into Mineral Security Partnership during the recent visit of PM to USA. It also happens to be a high yielding topic for mains 2023. I have framed a question and essential points that can be included in the answer on it.
The story of relationship between Satish Dhawan and APJ Kalam and how that contributed to the rise of ISRO is a great example of effective leadership: please go through this reading carefully it can be used for essay in multiple ways: by arguing that failures are the stepping stones for success, that great leaders like Satish Dhawan nurtured future leaders like APJ Kalam and that only great leaders can show humility and are unlikely to fall into trap of arrogance.
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“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”- Newton said this in 1675. Often achievements of significant milestones are rarely the work of a few individuals but requires the coming together of leaders and teams over generations. While India’s Chandrayaan 3 mission is on the way to moon, the success of this mission has been enabled by establishment of institutions like ISRO and its founders like Vikram Sarabhai
This is the type of content which can be very useful to come up with examples while writing essay on technology and development, the role of leadership in bringing significant transformations.
Essay writing involves using concepts that one reads about in newspapers, articles or books: one such concept is about the debate around development models and its impact on environment.
Two development models that are often talked about are the anthropocentric model vs biocentric model.
This video throws light on the core ideas behind these two models which will be immensely useful while writing essay on the theme of environment.
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The Himalayan flashfloods have recently made a lot of news for the death and destruction that they have caused washing away everything from highways to buildings.
However, these recent floods are an outcome of an anthropocentric development model which privileges humans over everyone else. This video discusses some of these aspects about our development models and what can be done to alter them
