[UPSC Interview 2022] – Transcript #255 : Smita Nagraj Ma’am Board, Sociology Optional

Date of Interview: 29/03/2023,Forenoon Session
Board: Smita Nagraj M’aam
Optional: Sociology
Background: Physics

• To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2022, visit this page

Chairman

1.What are you doing nowadays?
2.Why did you come to Delhi from Lucknow?
3.Why do you read non fiction, don’t you like fiction?
4.What do you think is one thing that’s going to define the next century for India?
5.Challenges of Digitalisation
6.Should we trust state if it has the potential to carry out surveillance?
7.Explain the quote-“we sacrifice liberty at the altar of safety”

Member 1

1.Khalistan issue, what’s the origin?
2.whose responsibility it is to provide secuirty to Indian  Missions abroad?
3.which convention governs the diplomatic relationship?
4.UK Asylum law, justified?
5.what does UNHRC stand for and its role?
6.What is the implication of UK’s policy on refugees?

Member 2

1.Have you travelled abroad?
2.why Sociology and not Physics?
3.Delhi water issue ,how to resolve it?(huge monologue on this)

Member 3

1.Why did Einstein get Nobel prize?
2.Why not for his earlier work?
3.Why inequality is there in society?
4.A person in 20s is a socialist but in 30s he becomes capitalist,Agree with it?
5.Should we equally distribute all the resources?
6.How would you deal with inequality?

Member 4

1.What do you understand by space debris?
2.Any incident of collision in space?
3.India’s reentry experiment,What was the name of the satellite?
4.Iran Saudi peace deal,Is it sustainable?
5.Is China’s effort at bringing peace between Russia Ukraine genuine?
Chairwoman again-
What would you personally do in UK asylum case ?
Democracy can do no wrong?
I said M’aam this is a tough question.A little laughter and then M’aam said there are no absolutes.
Experience- very good,felt no pressure while answering, M’aam smiled all the time.Other board members were somewhat expressionless.