{"id":186349,"date":"2022-05-26T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T02:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=186349"},"modified":"2022-05-25T22:23:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T16:53:57","slug":"upsc-interview-2021-transcript-219-manoj-soni-board-mathematics-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-219-manoj-soni-board-mathematics-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #219 : Manoj Soni Board, Mathematics Optional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 5th may, forenoon session<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Manoj Soni<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> IIT Delhi (Textile Technology), 2019<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Mathematics<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> Music(singing, playing guitar,harmonica), Vipassana meditation, Street play(POR: director of institute street play team), NSS volunteering<\/p>\n<p>Experience in interview: board was cordial<\/p>\n<p>mask was compulsory while face shield was optional<\/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><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What do you know about\u2026?(expecting the spiritual point of view), follow up questions on philosophy of buddhism.<\/li>\n<li>Didn\u2019t you go for the college placements?<\/li>\n<li>You are graduated from IIT Delhi. How and when did you decide choosing civil services?<\/li>\n<li>did you get training for singing? do you sing bollywood songs?<\/li>\n<li>Mention any government policy after independence which you think was not good for India.(my answer: national population policy with coercive measures including forced sterilisation)<\/li>\n<li>Give 5 solutions in brief to control population.<\/li>\n<li>Do you think India is a patriarchal society?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>some questions on women empowerment, women education(in context of population control), women as decision makers<\/li>\n<li>why is that the female contraceptives are more prevalent in india than the contraceptives for males?<\/li>\n<li>questions on patriarchy, how financial independence alone is not enough for changing patriarchal mindset.<\/li>\n<li>mention some places where you had performed street play, asked about the themes of all those street plays.<\/li>\n<li>problems of orphans in india?(one of the themes of the street plays I had performed)<\/li>\n<li>asked about rendezvous (annual fest of IIT delhi)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How would you teach me vipassana meditation if I am a beginner? Tell me about the procedure<\/li>\n<li>Where did you attend the 10 days vipassana retreat?<\/li>\n<li>asked about the WHO claiming more deaths in India than the official figures, how far do you think is this true? WHO\u2019s figures are how many times the India\u2019s official figures on death?<\/li>\n<li>The figures were intentionally shown wrong by the state government or is there any discrepancy in the data collection and identifying the cause of deaths. what do you think?<\/li>\n<li>asked about the national association of blind where I had worked, what were the activities in which I had participated?<\/li>\n<li>asked the name of the student for whom i had written the exam as a scribe.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>some technical questions on textile technology ( screen printing, dispatch printing, etc)<\/li>\n<li>You said you got interest in humanities subjects during college days, why did you choose mathematics as an optional then?<\/li>\n<li>you play harmonica too. what is that slide button on the side of the harmonica? How does it work?<\/li>\n<li>when did street plays get prominence in India?<\/li>\n<li>Name the most famous personality of street plays in India?<\/li>\n<li>Tell me something about tripura?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Who was the leader of the East Pakistan liberation war 1971, what were the causes?<\/li>\n<li>asked about Indus water treaty.<\/li>\n<li>what is the capital of manipur?<\/li>\n<li>what is Imphal\u2019s significance in the freedom movement? (battle of imphal)<\/li>\n<li>Did INA win or lose against British Indian army?, what were the causes that it couldn\u2019t proceed further?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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>Date of Interview: 5th may, forenoon session Board: Manoj Soni Background: IIT Delhi (Textile Technology), 2019 Optional: Mathematics Hobbies: Music(singing, playing guitar,harmonica), Vipassana meditation, Street play(POR: director of institute street play team), NSS volunteering Experience in interview: board was cordial mask was compulsory while face shield was optional To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2021,\u00a0visit&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2021-transcript-219-manoj-soni-board-mathematics-optional\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2021] \u2013 Transcript #219 : Manoj Soni Board, Mathematics Optional<\/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":[8094,9976,8809,10756,1680,6146,10710],"class_list":["post-186349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-8094","tag-guitar","tag-interview_transcript2021","tag-manoj_soni2021","tag-mathematics","tag-music","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\/186349","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=186349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}