[UPSC Interview 2025] – Transcript #90: Sujatha Chaturvedi Board, PSIR Optional, Telangana Home State, Chess Hobby

Date of Interview: 06/01/2026 – AN; 5th to go
Board: Sujatha Chaturvedi
Optional: PSIR
Home State: Telangana
Hobby: Chess
DAF Keywords – Nalgonda, Telangana, Biotechnology, Working as Junior Assistant, PSIR, Chess, Calisthenics

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Chairman

1. What were you telling yourself before entering the interview room?
2. When did you come to Delhi?
3. What is the difference you observed between Hyderabad and Delhi?
4. Any other differences? (Earlier, I said it is cold comparatively)
5. How do you identify pollution here?
6. Tell me the physiological ways of identification? (Interlinked to my graduation, like burning of eyes, soot accumulation in the nose, etc.)
7. Situation-based- I’ll give utmost power. What will you do to reduce pollution in Delhi? (Elaborate discussion on it with a lot of counter questions, whatever I suggested, she proved me wrong. In the end, she made me quit.)

Member 1

1. Major industries in your district?
2. Have you read the Constitution? Chairman intervened – he must have understood the constitution, here and there, partly read provisions – I said yes.
3. Why is the constitution of India called “the constitution of India”, not Const. for India, by India?
4. Tell me about the Kakatiya dynasty and its contribution?

Member 2

1. JC Bose’s contribution to plant breeding? (repeated this three times)
2. High-Yielding Varieties? Green Revolution and its negative impact? Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification?
3. Compare Nizam and Kakatiya?
4. Where did Nizam hail from, and where are the current descendants staying?
5. Lineage between Bijapur and the Mughal?
6. What are Calisthenics?
7. Expand BIMSTEC?

Member 3

1. Is the UN relevant?
2. Decline of Multilateralism?
3. Trump’s policies and their impact?
4. SAARC and BIMSTEC difference?

Member 4

1. Chess is considered the most intelligent game. Do you consider yourself as one of the most intelligent people?
2. So, India has many intelligent people, but why are we lacking in innovation?
3. Compare China and India in Democracy. Is democracy a hindrance to our development?
4. India-Oman relations? Polity structure in Oman?