[UPSC Interview 2025] – Transcript #14: Anuradha Prasad Board

Date of Interview: 9th December 2025
Board: Anuradha Prasad Ma’am
DAF Keywords(which were asked): Public Policy Analyst, Cyber Security,
B.El.Ed, Josh Talks, United Nations [nothing else asked from DAF, these things took up enough time. Learning- the richer your DAF, more predictable the interview- I had tackled 80% of these questions in mocks]

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Chairman

Q1: So you were a Public Policy Analyst. Tell me other avenues from your graduation, as it is a unique course.
Q2: Cyber Security- Australia has banned social media for children below 16. Do you think we should do so in India?
Q3: Let’s say we do implement, can you tell me what will be the practical steps that need to be taken? Very implementable, not arbitrary steps.
Q4: If a cyber crime happens, who are the stakeholders? Apart from the ones who do the crime?
Q5: What are personality rights? (I had led them on to this question with my earlier answer)
Q6: If Anil Kapoor and Amitabh Bacchan are fighting for their personality rights, why are they doing so?
Q7: Difference between fiscal and monetary policy?
Q8: By giving examples, share what is under the domain of fiscal and what is under monetary policy from these 3: inflation, employment and currency depreciation (I had given these 3 examples in my earlier answer)
Q9: How does forex and G Sec sale and purchase impact currency prices?
(At the end of this the discussion they had gone into economics and it started building pressure on me, so I gracefully admitted: ma’am I’ll read up more deeply on it to be able to explain it coherently)

Member 2

Q1: You were earning a handsome amount as an Anchor and content strategy manager at Josh Talks. What was your role there? Why did you resign? What inspired you for civil services?
Q2: There is a rising trend of female IPS officers who are encounter specialists. Would you want to become encounter specialist?
Q3: Let’s say you get into the services, where do you see yourself in the next 10 years?
Q4: You only talked about your professional life. Aims for your personal life?
Q5: Have you ever been criticised? How do you handle criticism?

Member 2

Q1: World humanitarian summit at UN. Tell us more about it. What was your role? How did you earn the certificate of excellence there?
Q2- What are human rights?
(Sir was quite aged, just smiling and jovial)

Member 3

Q1: You talked about Tata Nano earlier. (I had given it as an example regarding my role at Josh talks- a topic I covered as an Anchor). Tell me, why did it fail?
Q2. If you were to be given the responsibility of re-marketing Nano, how would you go about it?
Q3. Folks at TATA are quite smart, they would have thought about relaunching NANO. Why didn’t they?
Q4. Do you think that Nano should be relaunched in India? If yes, should it be relaunched at the same price??
Q5- Let’s say you’re driving from home to office, and you break a traffic rule. The traffic cop will agree to let you go if you give 200-250 rupees to him. No one from office has seen that you broke the law. What will you do?
Q6: What is the difference between blockchain and bitcoin?

Member 4

Q1: Lavanya, India tops the list of countries which face Cyber attacks. How do we tackle this menace? Since you’ve worked in public policy analysis of cybersecurity.
Q2. Which ministry should be put cybersecurity under? Defence? MEITY? External affairs?
Q3. What is the AI readiness of India? How do we navigate the coming challenges?

Chairperson: Last question to you Lavanya. Do you think TATA Nano will succeed if it is launched today?