{"id":180663,"date":"2022-04-23T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T04:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=180663"},"modified":"2022-04-22T22:05:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:35:32","slug":"upsc-interview-2021-transcript-60-m-sathyavathy-maam-board-sociology-optional-endurance-cycling-vipassana-audiobooks-hobbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-60-m-sathyavathy-maam-board-sociology-optional-endurance-cycling-vipassana-audiobooks-hobbies\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #60 : M Sathyavathy Ma\u2019am Board, Sociology Optional, Endurance cycling, Vipassana, Audiobooks Hobbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><b>Board:<\/b><\/strong>M Sathyavathy Ma\u2019am<strong><br \/>\nOptional:<\/strong> Sociology<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> B.Tech Civil Engineering<br \/>\n<strong>Hobby:<\/strong> Endurance cycling, Vipassana, Audiobooks<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2021,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/#int2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Very cordial board, board sitting on a round table, you are asked to sit on one end and other board members are equidistantly placed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read out my entire DAF, then asked:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>you\u2019re related to startups, why is it that Indian startups are copied from the west?<\/li>\n<li>What can we do to promote original startups.<\/li>\n<li>What did your own startup do?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What is Endurance cycling?<\/li>\n<li>Where have you done Endurance cycling?<\/li>\n<li>What did Leena AI do? ( my work ex) follow up questions on that<\/li>\n<li>Have you used chatbots on banking websites<\/li>\n<li>Do you think that AI can take over functioning of banks?<\/li>\n<li>Do you think given the explosion of data and analytics, can such data be used for hacking and against our national interest?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Member 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You worked at Netherlands leprosy relief foundation, what is it?<\/li>\n<li>Which act regulated foreign donations in India?<\/li>\n<li>Follow up on what changes were brought in recently, (FCRA Amendment act)<\/li>\n<li>Controversy around it.<\/li>\n<li>What is you\u2019re take on concrete vs. steel buildings, which so you support?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Some more questions I don\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You\u2019re a Shot putter, what is the physics involved in it? Followed up on projectile motion<\/li>\n<li>What is the reason for seasons, followed up a little bit.<\/li>\n<li>What is law of diminishing marginal utility?<\/li>\n<li>He asked why drones are becoming so prevalent, and then the technological breakthroughs required for it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You\u2019re from Maharashtra, for which god is the song \u201cDigambara, digambara\u2026\u201d ( did not know)<\/li>\n<li>Then said you\u2019ve studied Sanskrit in class 10, do you remember it ( I said no).<\/li>\n<li>He went on to ask can you finish a shlok I tell you\u2026 \u201cVidya dadati vinayam\u201d, I said no, he asked the meaning, I deduced it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Asked a few more I do not remember.<\/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 2022:\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>Board:M Sathyavathy Ma\u2019am Optional: Sociology Background: B.Tech Civil Engineering Hobby: Endurance cycling, Vipassana, Audiobooks To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2021,\u00a0visit this page Very cordial board, board sitting on a round table, you are asked to sit on one end and other board members are equidistantly placed. Chairman Read out my entire DAF, then asked:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-60-m-sathyavathy-maam-board-sociology-optional-endurance-cycling-vipassana-audiobooks-hobbies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #60 : M Sathyavathy Ma\u2019am Board, Sociology Optional, Endurance cycling, Vipassana, Audiobooks Hobbies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8094,10717,8809,9260,10713,1691,10710],"class_list":["post-180663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-8094","tag-cycling","tag-interview_transcript2021","tag-listening_audiobooks","tag-sathiyavathy_board2021","tag-sociology","tag-vipassana_meditation","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180663","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}