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It is not easy You know? To leave your house To leave your city To leave your family It is not easy To live on your father's money To live in absurd loneliness To live in absolute conflict It is not easy Where days pass like months Where months pass like days From one prelims to other time flies! It is not easy To study for the weekend mock To write it & score less It humbles you You live alone in your room Sad. Lonely. Alone. But it is Diwali Crackers irritate you It feels like a cruel joke from universe As you fail, world seems to celebrate It hurts, honestly. It feels like you will throw up Your intuition kills you Your gut curses you You lie in bed Lips dry as Atacama Heart pounding harder You can listen to your veins pumping blood You want to cry Your tears betray you You see world darkening ..with open eyes It sucks. I know it is hurtful I know you feel cheated I know it leaves you broken I know you lack motivation I know it kills you I know you hate it I do not have words of comfort for you But I have my story I have been there It kills your confidence I doubted everything Rejections were my status quo I stopped trying But something changed one day I do not know at what point did I leave that feeling behind But I know I did! You know what worked? To cry a bit and standup again next day To accept the failure and yet going to same books next day To know I scored low and go back to write next things It is hard, I know I have been there But if you are there, just avoid 2 things: 1. Don't befriend your bed 2. Don't stop moving, resist stagnation It might sound cliche but it works As I write this, I have a tear rolling down my cheek I won't be surprised if you have a choked throat too It happens You will come out of it. Darr Matt bhai, do it. Whatever it takes!

Note: Are you coming to Delhi WHYMeet today? Get your invite here 🚨 5 November 2023 | Sunday 🚨 Nothing major in newspaper today. Use time to revise current affairs on blog.csewhy.com Reading Recommendations🗞 TH 1. Environmental factors determine height of children (GS3, Environment) 2. What is status of Kavach installations? (GS3, Infrastructure) 3. Why did India abstain from the call for truce? (GS2, IR) PS: Hit ❤️ for yourself if you're reading newspaper even on a Sunday!

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Note: Take Pledge for UPSC 2024! Join here 🚨 4 November 2023 | Saturday 🚨 Mains Keys🗝 (Use as examples in Mains answers) 1. Tamil Nadu & Kerala Governments approach SC against delay in granting assent to Bills passed by legislature (GS2, Polity) Pre-related📄 1. Malaiyaha Tamils • Brought to Sri Lanka by British planters to work in coffee and later, tea plantations, 2 centuries ago Reading Recommendations🗞 IE 1. Transparency at stake (GS2, Polity) 2. A matter of greying (GS3, Population) 3. Fixing Mumbai's air: a prescription (GS3, Environment) 4. How air pollution impacts economic growth (GS3, Economy & Environment) 5. Direct listing on foreign exchanges: What does it mean for Indian cos? (GS3, Economy) PS: Hit ❤️ to confirm you are reading newspaper daily!

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Note: New govt job openings posted on @CSEWhyPlanB 🚨 3 November 2023 | Friday 🚨 See India-Qatar relationship for Mains Answers here Mains Keywords ✍️🏼 1. Democracy Room • A room in every senior secondary school to be dedicated for regular display of voter education materials and conduct of Continuous Electoral & Democracy Education activities throughout the year 2. Frontier AI • It is highly capable foundation generative AI models that could pose severe risks to public safety 3. ATL Sarthi • Creating clusters of existing Atal Tinkering Labs • Overseen by guidance committee involving students, teachers, principals and mentors • Responsible for making ATLs in their region & facilitating access to tinkering for schools Pre-related 📄 1. Bletchley Park Declaration • Singed by 28 countries in world's first AI Safety Summit in London • Incorporates acknowledgement of substantial risks from potential intentional misuse or unintended issues of control of frontier AI 2. UNESCO's Creative Cities Network • To promote cooperation among cities that have identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable urban development • Kozhikode and Gwalior recent additions • Varanasi, Srinagar & Chennai also part of the network Reading Recommendations🗞 IE 1. Clearing the dust, lifting the haze (GS3, Environment) 2. Why global pact in AI matters (GS3, Tech) TH 1. Biosphere reserves are evolving as pockets of hope (GS3, Environment) 2. Is the United Nations toothless in ending wars? (GS2, IR) PS: Hit ❤️ for yourself if you're reading newspaper daily!

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Akhaura-Agartala Rail Link

Note: Get the Daily CA Compilation access in one place from point no. 2 of the pinned message 🚨 1 November 2023 | Wednesday 🚨 Mains Keys 🗝 1. Akhaura-Agartala rail link re-establishes rail connectivity between Northeast India & Bangladesh after a gap of nearly seven and a half decades (GS2, IR) Pre-related 📄 1. Strategic Forces Command • Responsible for operational & administrative control of the country's strategic & tactical nuclear assets • Termination of services power under Army Act 1950 & Article 310 of Constitution with President of India Reading Recommendations 🗞 IE 1. In the interest of all (GS2, IR) 2. Every drop counts (GS3, Environment) 3. Where Alan Turing started it (GS3, S&T) 4. Maratha Quota (GS2, Polity) 5. What a 'normal' monsoon hides (GS3, Environment) TH 1. Welcome assertion (GS2, Polity) 2. Safety first (GS3, Infrastructure) 3. Ethics, parliamentary conduct and the Indian MP (GS2, Polity) 4. Stocktaking climate finance (GS3, Environment) 5. The stance of the Maldives President-elect on India (GS2, IR) 6. A Gaganyaan for the seas: inside India's 'Deep Ocean Mission' (GS3, Space) PS: Hit ❤️ to confirm you are reading newspaper daily!

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Solomon Islands

Note: I've set up my first website. Did you check it here? 🚨 30 October 2023 | Monday 🚨 Mains Keywords✍️🏼 1. Middle-income trap • When a country reaches $5,000-$6,000 per capita income, but then doesn't increase at a pace 2. Lewis Model An expanding manufacturing ("capitalist") sector could absorb much of the surplus labour in agriculture & other "subsistence" sectors, by paying wages just high enough to make men leave the family farm Pre-related📄 1. Jehovah's Witnesses • A millenarian Christian group • Doesn't believe in Christian Trinity, but believes in Jesus as son of God & Jehovah as God • Follow a literal interpretation of Bible, have no priests & don't approve of traditional priesthood as practised in other Christian groups 2. 'Penny drop' verification • Mandatory for withdrawal of funds by subscribers of National Pension System • Involves Central Recordkeeping Agencies checking active status of savings bank account & match name in bank account number with name in Permanent Retirement Account Number 3. Places in News: Soloman Islands • Archipelago in Southern Pacific Ocean • "Flourishing" cooperation with China Reading Recommendations🗞 IE 1. Change & Challenge (GS2, IR) 2. Policy to what end, at whose cost (GS3, Economy & Agriculture) 3. India's first dist-level study on hypertension flags disparities in care, Page 10 (GS2, Health) 4. China model India didn't follow (GS3, Economy) 5. Caution for Israel, flashing warning signs for world economy (GS2, IR) TH 1. Give up impropriety, demonstrate impartiality (GS2, Polity; important) 2. An unfolding economic tragedy (GS3, Economy) 3. The Indian Railways' revenue problem (GS3, Infrastructure) PS: Don’t be scared at long length today, it’s easy! 😄💪🏻

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Note: Part time opportunities for aspirants coming up at @CSEWhyPlanB 🚨 29 October 2023 | Sunday 🚨 Revise concept of Cloud Seeding here Mains Keywords ✍️🏼 1. QR Code • A type of 2D matrix barcode • Invented in 1994, by the Japanese company Denso Wave for labelling automobile parts Pre-related📄 1. Meri Maati Mera Desh • Campaign under Ministry of Culture • Culminating event of 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav' • Tribute to Veers & Veeranganas who made supreme sacrifice for India • Comprises many acitivites & ceremonies across country at panchayat, block, ULB, state & national levels 2. National Crime Records Bureau • Headquartered in Delhi, setup in 1986 • Under Ministry of Home Affairs • Functions as repository of information on crime & criminals to assist investigators 3. National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) • Launched in 2022, under NCRB • Assigns a unique 10-digit National Fingerprint Number to all suspects arrested by the police • Integrates data on a common platform for police across states Reading Recommendations🗞 TH 1. IITM Pune demonstrates cloud seeding can produce rainfall (GS3, Environment) 2. Why will police stations install DNA systems? (GS2, Polity) PS: Hit ❤️ for yourself if you're reading newspaper even on a Sunday!