[UPSC Interview 2025] – Transcript #16: Anuradha Prasad Board, English literature Optional, cooking Hobby

Date of Interview: 09/12/25
Board: Anuradha Prasad ma’am
Optional: English literature
Hobby: cooking
Key daf details:  journalling, emotional intelligence, teaching in Delhi slums , English literature , cooking .

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Chairman

1. What is emotional intelligence, how do you develop it through journalling.
2. What is the difference between diary and journalling
3. Don’t you think meditation also helps in emotional regulation, then why only journalling.
4. why English literature from science ( school)
5.  What did you observe while teaching in slums
6. What difference do you see in slums and villages, what will be your different approaches to solve the problem of lack of education.
7. What  different measures will you take in villages and slums to pursue parents to send their children to school.
8. You like cooking , what is the price of potatoes these days , potato kharif / rabi

Member 1

1. You have done graduation in english literature, what have you read .
2. Which novels , which poems
3. Favorite book
4. What European poem  you’ve read ? Name and who wrote
5. Suppose you’re posted in an alienated place , you and your staff suffer from homesickness, how would address this , without sending them to homes
5. What according to you is a good day , bad day , why ?

Member 2

1. What is the diff between EQ and EI
2. Sovereignty disturbed by Russia , how do you explain
3. Weaponisation of dollar ?

Member 3

1. You are very calm and composed , it doesn’t look like that you get nervous anytime .
I said sir I do get nervous sometime , asked what do you do to deal with that .
2. Give 2 -2 positives of City Life and village life .

Member 4

1. Can you explain the evolution of English literature
2. Something related to EI

Chairperson: why Russia does not want Ukraine to join NATO , what threats ?