[UPSC Interview 2024] – Transcript #12: Sanjay Verma Board, Tamilnadu Home State, Painting Hobby

Date of Interview: 24/03/2025
Board: Sanjay Verma Sir
Home State: Tamilnadu
Hobby: Painting
DAF details: Tamilnadu, Neyveli, Agriculture graduate, Painting, Plastic plogging
Duration: About 30 minutes

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Chairman

1.You have completed your UG in 2020.Are you working?
2.Why have you not pursued your masters?It would have enriched your knowledge and experience.
3.Pointed to a painting and asked whether it is acrylic or oil painting
4.Have you visited any art galleries,exhibitions?
5.Have you bought or sold any paintings?
6.List top 10 agriculturally self sufficient countries.
7.What are the major agricultural imports and exports in India.
8.Palm oil is considered unhealthy,what is the reason?
9.What themes do you paint?(landscapes and cartoons)
10.Disney cartoons or Indian cartoons?What are the cartoons?

Member 1

1. Is agriculture a science or art? why?
2. What is QR code, how it works?
3. What is captcha?
4.Pointed to 3 photos hanging in the wall(mirabai,ganga,draupadi)What are the similarities in them?
5.Of the three whom do you inspire the most?
6.Do you know about Brahmavadhinis?(i said i am not aware)
7.Tell me some of the strong women of vedic age

Member 3

1.Neyveli-What is the mineral famous?Tell about the types of coal.
2.Tell about the menace of single use plastics are there any treaties to address the issue?
3.Why agriculture has 50℅of population but GDP contribution is very low
4.What is the body that regulates GM crops in India.what are the reservations about GM crops

Member 4

1.What is cubism in art
2.Whom does cubism inspire
3.China is constructing series of dams,its impact on India and how should India deal with it?
4.Srilanka issue-long monologue-how to resolve the issue?

Member 5

1. You said that you visited egmore museum,tell the important artefacts that you saw(i mentioned egmore museum in art gallery question)
2. Why Indian mustard is banned in USA
3.Tell the three things which is pushing back India from its growth trajectory
4.What is your opinion on women in combat roles in armed forces
5.What is the script found in keezhadi?

Useful mocks/One on one:
One on one with shubham sir(Vidyapeeth academy)is motivating and helped structuring answers, Vajiram mock, One on one with ravindran sir(vajiram), Shankar mock, Only IAS.