[UPSC Interview 2023] – Transcript #105: Bidyut Behari Swain Board, Sociology Optional, Tamil Nadu Home State, Football Hobby

Date of Interview: 5/2/24 Forenoon
Board: Bidyut Behari Swain
Optional: Sociology
Home State: Tamil Nadu
Hobbies: Football, Long distance running, Watching Travel Vlogs,

Daf keywords: Tamil Nadu, Btech ECE, MA and Optional Sociology (IGNOU), Interned at AI startup, Worked at a FinTech for an year

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Chairman

1. Tell me something special about your home district.

Member 1

1. You worked only for an year, isn’t it too short?
2. Differences that you observed between private and govt sectors?
3. What govt can learn from private sector?
4. What can be done to improve tourism in India and what is govt doing?
5. Why India has low ranking in athletics and football?
6. What is a “vlog”??

Member 2

1. Are you sure India will improve ranking in football within a decade?(Based on previous answer)
2. What was the system Pakistan used to find the misfired missile from India?
3. What was that missile?
4. What are the takeaways from Gaza war?
5. Why India is so much concerned about Red Sea crisis?
6. What is “L1” in Adithya L1?

Member 4

1. Tell me about your experience in studying sociology from a distance learning programme?
2. What are the methods used in modern sociology?
3. Subaltern studies comes under Sociology or History?
4. Is it Cultural study?
5. If u are posted as a DM in the ____ dist(couldnt recollect name of the district) of UP what are the challenges you will face?

Member 5

1. What is an unicorn and what is decacorn?
2. What are the unicorns in India?
3. Recently an unicorn is facing crisis what are the reasons and what all things other startups can learn from it?
4. Consider me as an investor and pitch me a start up idea in the “Travel Vlog” domain.
5. If you are integrating AI in the start up, what are its potential?