[UPSC Interview 2024] – Transcript #37: Sanjay Verma Sir Board, Sports Hobby

Date of Interview: 27/03/2025
Board: Sanjay Verma Sir
Session: Afternoon (4-30) last to go
DAF Keywords: Cricket Analysis, Poultry farm Management, Critically Acclaimed films.

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Chairman

1.Which IPL team devotes the most amount of money to Cricket Analysis?
2.Which team comes second in analysis?
3.Is CSK dependant only on Dhoni?
4.Turnover of your Poultry farm?
5.Is you farm sustainable consumption wise or ecology wise?
6.What steps are you taking to make it more sustainable?
7.What is Artistic expression of critically acclaimed films?
8.What are its components?
9.Which film is the best in sound mixing?What about Hindi films?
10.From where was the music of 12th fail movie borrowed?
11.Who gave the music of Pather panchali?

Member 1

1.You belong to Ahmadnagar…..The name in Hindi doesnt have any Alankars in it. Name any other place which doesn’t have any Alankars in its name.
2.What is Food fortification?
3.Which food substances are fortified? Is Rice fortified?
4.What are the techniques for food preservation?
5.Name any traditional techniques your mother or sister use it at home?
6.What will be the impact on poultry farming if Veganism rise?

Member 2

1.What is rule of law?Is it applicable to every person equally?
2.Then why wasnt the judge arrested recently?
3.What do you think about the working of law enforcement agencies and judiciary when there are so poor conviction rates?
4.What is a Benami property?What is its underlying principle?
5.How does Benami work?
6.Tell us something about Lab grown meat?
7.Can we call lab grown meat really a type of meat or should we call it vegetarian food?
8.Tell me a Section of BNS where attempt to crime is punished but not the actual crime?

Member 3

1.Are you related to Anshuman Gaikwad?
2.Tell me what is RTI and on what grounds information release can be restricted?
3.How do you manage the time for Poultry farming when you have a full time job?
4.What is Veganism?
5.Do vegans consume milk?
6.What is the future of Poultry when there is a growing trend of veganism?
7.What is the contribution of Virender Sehwag to Indian Cricket?

Member 5

1.How many fossil parks are there in India? Name some of them.
2.Recently there were some fossils found of Tyrannosaurus in India,what were the findings about?
3.Recently there was a spokesperson of a famous country who stated that India is playing ice hockey with BRICS,what does it mean?
4.Why was secularism not included in the preamble in the early days of the constitution?
5.What are the articles in the constitution that try to reduce dominance of one over the other? What about those articles in the context of centre and state?

Chairman

1.Who will win IPL?
2.What about womens cricket? Who are the upcoming new cricketers to watch out for?
3.Compare some of the best captains across the world and highlight their special qualities.
4.What did the art of captaincy teach you in real life?

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