[UPSC Interview 2025] – Transcript #38: Sujata Chaturvedi Board, Anthropology Optional, Uttar Pradesh Home State, Singing

Date of Interview: 12/12/25, Forenoon
Board: Sujata Chaturvedi Ma’am
Optional: Anthropology
Home State: Uttar Pradesh
Hobbies: Singing, Paper on Tradition Healing.

Key DAF details: Ghaziabad, Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Kathak, Devotional Singing, Paper on Tradition Healing.

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Chairman

1) Why did you take anthropology as a subject ?
2) Does it place you in a better position to understand people ?
3) An instance for the above.
4) Does Empathy Facilitate Administration ?
5) What if you are an empathetic person but your decision is not popular ?

Member 1

1) What is Gender Bias ?
2) What if your decisions are seen to be harsh (being a woman) and that of your male counterpart dynamic ?
3) What is the difference between sustainable agriculture and regenarative agriculture?
4) Which Gharana of Kathak do you belong to (LKO gharana), How is it different from Jaipur Gharana ?
5) What does India stands for peace and is against war means ?
6) In what context was it used ?

Member 2

1) What is Lasya ?
2) What was your presentation about traditional tribal healing about?
3) Why such fascination with tribes ?
4) What is white metal, why has it’s price been soaring ?
5) What is the nudge theory?
6) Has the nudge theory been used in Policy?

Member 3

1) Were you happy that you chair is a woman ? (I said yes, he asked isn’t that gender bias?)
2) If you are posted at the Ministry of Women and Child, what are some areas you will like to work on?
3) What will you do for vulnerable women ?

Member 4

1) What do you know about the Manipur Conflict ?
2) What is the current status of the conflict ? How will you resolve the same ?
3) Why have the tribes of Andaman and Nicobar been isolated ?
4) What is PVTG ? (asked by chairperson)
4) What is the genetic basis of the same ?
5) What is Emotional Intelligence ?

By what I understood the most controllable thing is to the keep smiling.

All the Best!