{"id":230725,"date":"2023-03-17T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T04:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=230725"},"modified":"2023-03-16T22:55:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T17:25:48","slug":"upsc-interview-2022-transcript-173-smita-nagraj-board-psir-optional-maharashtra-home-state-yoga-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-173-smita-nagraj-board-psir-optional-maharashtra-home-state-yoga-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #173 : Smita Nagraj Board, PSIR Optional, Maharashtra Home State, Yoga Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 3rd March, forenoon, 5th to go<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Smita Nagraj ma&#8217;am<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> PSIR<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Maharashtra, Marathwada<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> Yoga, meditation, playing harmonium<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/#it2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Why didn&#8217;t you go for post graduation and instead preferred upsc preparation<\/li>\n<li>The world is becoming tech savvy then how will you be able to manage as you are from humanities background? (I said, I was an engineer for 2 years and then left it)<\/li>\n<li>How did you convince your father? (3 idiots movie Farhan scene reference &#8211; they all laughed<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji emoji-small\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/webogram.org\/z\/img-apple-64\/1f605.png?w=750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude05\" data-path=\".\/img-apple-64\/1f605.png\" \/>)<\/li>\n<li>Caste violence and rivalry is more visible in Maharashtra. What do you think are the reasons?<\/li>\n<li>Do you think government is favouring the privileged community in this ( I SAID A BIG NO) ( I later realised this was indeed a googly bcoz she tried very hard to get any reply which would be criticising the govt but thankfully I didn&#8217;t)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Tell me the origin of yoga (DAF)<\/li>\n<li>Tell me the 8 sutras of ashtanga yoga (I told all)<\/li>\n<li>Then at which stage are you?<\/li>\n<li>Difference between Hindustan and carnatic music (DAF)<\/li>\n<li>How many notes are there? (DAF)<\/li>\n<li>Some famous musicians who have contributed for both? (DAF)<\/li>\n<li>What are these indian exercises? (DAF)<\/li>\n<li>Who started this mallakhamb?<\/li>\n<li>What do you play on harmonium? (DAF)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>(Female &#8211; full grilling mode)<\/li>\n<li>You left engineering which shows that you run away from challenges. If you will get some post which you don&#8217;t like then you will leave it too?<\/li>\n<li>Tell me the types of martial arts? (Random)<\/li>\n<li>How will you convince Agniveers who are serving for just 3-4 years to serve in dangerous battlefields like galwan?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Onion price issue in Maharashtra<\/li>\n<li>Drought in Maharashtra reasons (DAF)<\/li>\n<li>Many districts in Rajasthan receive less rainfall than Marathwada then why drought conditions are severe in Marathwada? (DAF)<\/li>\n<li>Farmer suicides solutions (DAF)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>What are FTAs<\/li>\n<li>Is India having trade with China a good thing?<\/li>\n<li>Should we be wary about annoying China? ( I said sir China will be annoyed anyway bcoz a thriving democracy in the neighborhood is a threat to its core existence as PPL of china might also demand democracy &#8211; he seemed to be impressed)<\/li>\n<li>Growing trade deficit with China what India is doing?<\/li>\n<li>Why countries are going for bilateral trade negotiations like FTAs and not for WTO led mechanism? ( Multilateralism on the decline was in the news)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Except the female member ( a bit grilling) everything went pretty smooth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAF<\/strong> &#8211; In my case more than 70% of the questions were directly or indirectly related to DAF ( I would say was lucky enough on this)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mocks &#8211;<\/strong> KSG, Chahal (very good), Chanakya mandal, Vajirao and Reddy (very good)<\/p>\n<p>In my case 70% was DAF &amp; 20% were questions which got repeated from the mocks so the uncharted waters were like 10%<\/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 2023: <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: 3rd March, forenoon, 5th to go Board: Smita Nagraj ma&#8217;am Optional: PSIR Home State: Maharashtra, Marathwada Hobbies: Yoga, meditation, playing harmonium To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2022, visit this page Chairman Why didn&#8217;t you go for post graduation and instead preferred upsc preparation The world is becoming tech savvy then how&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-173-smita-nagraj-board-psir-optional-maharashtra-home-state-yoga-hobby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #173 : Smita Nagraj Board, PSIR Optional, Maharashtra Home State, Yoga Hobby<\/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":[11255,11254,2043,1679,11269,6175],"class_list":["post-230725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-11255","tag-interview_transcript2022","tag-maharashtra","tag-psir","tag-smita_nagraj2022","tag-yoga","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":1698363307,"cached_date":1698460759},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230725","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=230725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}