[UPSC Interview 2025] – Transcript #33: Raj Shukla sir Board, watching movies Hobby

Date of Interview: 11/12/25
Board: Raj Shukla sir
Hobby: watching movies
Daf keywords: US China Coldwar, Afghanistan, watching movies on social issues, French, kathak, Dostoevsky.

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Chairman

1. Where the current geopolitics is heading towards. What are the implications for the world.
2. Do you think china is rising or has risen?

Member 1

1. Why Pakistan Afghanistan are fighting?
2. Recent Afghanistan’s minister visit? How do you see it. Should India recognise Afghanistan.
3. What is in Afghanistan that in past 200 years everybody tried to control it yet failed?
4. What is the difference between niti aayog and erstwhile planning Commission
5. What do you think is the major change that is needed in civil services?

Member 2

1. How society is influenced by social movies?
I don’t remember the other questions.

Member 3

1. You learnt kathak in school. Should it be made compulsory?
2. How to promote French in schools and colleges.
3. Why civil services?
4. Supposed you are posted in rural area, in which sectors would u work?
5. What are the challenges in implementation of UCC?
6. Do you know about DPDP act? What companies have to do differently now?

Member 4

1. Why you read dostoevsky’s work and not of others?
2. Have you read ‘the idiot’. Why he was called the idiot and do you think he was an idiot.
3. Compare Dostoevsky, pushkin, and leo Tolstoy.
4. Suppose you are administrator and give suggestions but the minister do not take your advise and want to implement some sub optimal advice. What would you do?