{"id":136946,"date":"2021-09-24T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T12:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=136946"},"modified":"2021-09-27T12:50:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T07:20:45","slug":"upsc-interview-2020-transcript-213-bb-vyas-board-malayalam-literature-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2020-transcript-213-bb-vyas-board-malayalam-literature-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2020] \u2013 Transcript #213 : BB Vyas Board, Kerala Home state, Malayalam literature\u00a0Optional,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Date of interview:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 17 September 2021<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Board:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0BB Vyas<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Background <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0BA English Hons<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Home state: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kerala<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Optional: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malayalam literature\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2020,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/#note3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Chairman\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0Welcome, please make yourself comfortable.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0You&#8217;ve graduated in English literature in 2019, were you preparing for the last 2 years? (said I&#8217;m also doing PG<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Is it in English literature itself.?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Then why have you chosen Malayalam literature as your optional?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0It is said that &#8216;A novel offers the reader a moral fable&#8217;. Do you agree?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Please elaborate.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Have you heard of the book A Passage to India? Who wrote it?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0What does E M Forster say about the passage to India? How does he describe it?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0What is the Colombo Security conclave?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Would you be comfortable to speak about India Maldives security cooperations? If not, we&#8217;ll leave it<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0let&#8217;s move on to another field- economic development. In what way has NITI Ayog changed the economic development in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Do you think public administration is being static for all these years? How has it evolved<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Is administration, management and governance the same? What difference can you see?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Member 1<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0What do you know about the North East<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What were the anthropogenic factors responsible for the Kerala floods of 2018?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member\u00a0 2\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Tell me what are your favourite books.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0(told 2)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Let&#8217;s not get into the justification for it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Kerala has a high literacy compared to the rest of India, how was it made possible? Or what factors aided to it?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0But despite this high literacy, Kerala has a high number of youth getting radicalised. The people joining ISIS from India is highest from Kerala unfortunately. Why does this happen?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0( said educated unemployment leading to desire for wealth and power as one factor among others)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0But does wealth really matter? Because the people in Taliban and other extreme organisations are wealthy people..<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0( added other reasons here &#8211; how literacy is not equal to education, increased social media penetration etc)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0But don&#8217;t you think there&#8217;s a contradiction here &#8211; increased literacy and use of social media rising hand in hand shows literacy is not limited to basic ability to Read and write\u2026?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Now what actions are being taken by the state to control this, is this dealt with or addressed with importance?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a011 .Tell me what&#8217;s the Kerala model of development , in health.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a012 .Why are the covid cases rising in Kerala despite this efficiency in management?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Member 3<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0You&#8217;ve a very beautiful name, what does it mean?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0What is the difference between budgetary deficit and fiscal deficit?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Tell me who&#8217;s your favourite poet, and why?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Are you wearing a Khadi saree? (Said no, it&#8217;s of Eri silk)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0How is Eri silk special, explain it to us<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Have you heard of an organisation called KVIC ( Khadi and Village industries Commission)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0What does it do to promote the sector of this silk?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Member 4\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0What is Incredible India?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Where does Kerala fit into it?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Why are there so many nurses from Kerala<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0I can identify from your DAF that you are a debater. In debates you speak for and against. Now I&#8217;ll give you a topic, speak against it &#8211; Press isn&#8217;t free in India<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><b>Chairman &#8211; <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">your interview is over, we wish you good luck, you may leave now<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>For full Interview Preparation Guide:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click Here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Current Affairs For UPSC Exam 2021:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/current-affairs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>(This transcript has been posted by a community member of ForumIAS)<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of interview: 17 September 2021 Board: \u00a0BB Vyas Background \u00a0BA English Hons Home state: Kerala Optional: Malayalam literature\u00a0 To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2020,\u00a0visit this page Chairman\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Welcome, please make yourself comfortable. \u00a0You&#8217;ve graduated in English literature in 2019, were you preparing for the last 2 years? (said I&#8217;m also doing PG \u00a0Is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2020-transcript-213-bb-vyas-board-malayalam-literature-optional\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2020] \u2013 Transcript #213 : BB Vyas Board, Kerala Home state, Malayalam literature\u00a0Optional,<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":125283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8784,9247,8810,1748,7993],"class_list":["post-136946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public","tag-8784","tag-bb_vyas2020","tag-interview_transcript2020","tag-kerala","tag-malayalam_literature","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bharat-Bhushan-Vyas.png?fit=600%2C500&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}