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Date of Interview: 8 January 2024, Afternoon
Board: Dr. Dinesh Dasa
Optional: PSIR
Background: Computer Engineering, Google, Marketing. (others not asked)
Home State: Mumbai, Maharashtra (nothing asked)
Approx Time: 30 mins
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Chairman
- Introduce yourself to the board?
- What were you doing since graduation?
- Do you know about the California Court case on which the entire tech community has its eyes on it? (oracle vs google – regarding use of java in android language)
- What is JAM?
- What is net neutrality? How will the absence of net neutrality hamper democratic use of internet and information flow?
- SC judgement on same sex marriage? What’s your opinion? Is SC becoming modern?
- India’s stand in Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas?
Member 1
- Laws related to unethical digital marketing?
- Potection mechanism for consumers for unethical digital marketing practices? (long discussion).
- How UPI and ABDM (Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission) can be related to each other and discussion on the same. (Digital Public Infrastructure).
Member 2
- How Russia and Ukraine are historically ralated? (Orthodox Christianity originated from the erstwhile Ukraine republic)
- Then what is the reason of this conflict?
- Present relations of India-China in economic, cultural, political and P2P dimensions?
- If you are made to solve Indo-china crisis, how will u do it?
- How to improve relations with Global South and LDC’s?
- How should we improve economic diplomacy with LDC’s?
Member 3
- What is HDI?
- What are the parameters of HDI (unnecessary long question to confuse)
- India’s rank?
- How to improve HDI?
- How many countries recognized by UN?
- If the overall landmass of world is fixed and few countries existed before, how so many new countries are formed today?
- How come India being a large country, is still united?
Member 4
- Are big tech cos neo imperialist?
- Is India doing the right thing by getting cheap oil from Russia despite others sanctioning it?
- What is dedollarization?
- Can UPI help in dedollarization?
Chairman
- Hope you had a good time interacting with us.
- Thank you, your interview is over.
Assessment of the board – They were very expressive and were nodding, including chairman sir. Even gave hints in 2-3 answers. Very cordial board. Good experience.
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(This transcript has been posted by a community member of ForumIAS)