[UPSC Interview 2022] – Transcript #213 : M. Sathiyavathy Board, Anthropology Optional, Writing Blogs Hobby

Date of Interview: 17 March 2023
Board: M. Sathiyavathy ma’am, Afternoon Session, 2nd to Go
Optional: Anthropology
Keywords from DAF: NIT Allahabad, Playing Percussion Instruments, Writing Blogs on Quora, Aligarh Muslim University

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Chairman

read out the DAF for other members
1. Quora is getting very popular, what is the name of your blog? (Chai Biskut)
2. Why this name?
4. But why not Biscuit and why Biskut?
3. So you add Chai to this Biskut? (Related to the name of my Blog) (and she laughed)
4. Why did you leave your job in 2020, it paid you well.
5. Why Anthropology and not Mechanical Engineering?
6. Have you studied Archaeological Anthropology?
7. Have you ever visited an excavated site?
8. Why do you want to visit Rakhigarhi?
9. What do you know about Keeladi Excavations?

Member 1

1. Have you read Tribal Anthropology well?
2. What is a tribe?
3. Process of listing an area as Scheduled Area?
4. What are Guidelines in this regard? Are there any guidelines?
5. Do you think this recommendation by State Government or Governor is often Politically Motivated?
6. What is the Indigenous issue related to tribes?
7. Who are Indigenous people of India?
8. How to identify groups as tribals? Any Supreme Court Rulings?
9. What did SC say in Niyamgiri Case?

Member 2

1. What is happening in Indian Education System?
2. Do you think having the name of language in name of University (Like Telugu University) correct?
3. What if a tribe having ST status marries a non tribal, will the child be still given ST status?
(some questions I cant recall)

Member 3

1. Bansi Bhaiyya Chronicles (I talked about it in Blog Answer), are you a person who observes a lot of people and happenings around you?
2. why do you like observing human lives and why do you write about them
3. Tell me three things you learned from Bansi Bhaiyya Chronicles Story that you have written.
4. Bureaucrats are given rules and regulations to follow, what is the importance of Emotional Competency and Values if rules are already given?
5. How to eliminate Human Biases in taking effective Decisions?

Member 4

1. Which Instruments do you play?
2. Do you think traditional Tribal Knowledge is relevant in Medicine?
3. Any initiative of Government of India?
4. Any examples that you have read?
5. Name a tribe from Nilgiris
6. How much Tribal Population in UP?
7. Any tribe near Aligarh?
8. What is significance of culture interactions and Social cohesion of different groups in Universities like AMU?

Thank you, All the best.