{"id":240391,"date":"2023-05-02T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=240391"},"modified":"2023-05-02T10:29:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T04:59:31","slug":"upsc-interview-2022-transcript-288-manoj-soni-sir-board-anthropology-optional-andhra-pradesh-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-288-manoj-soni-sir-board-anthropology-optional-andhra-pradesh-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #288 : Manoj Soni sir\u00a0Board, Anthropology Optional, Andhra Pradesh Home State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong>\u00a0 April 12, Morning session<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Manoj Soni sir<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Anthropology<br \/>\n2nd to go. Around 22 Mins.<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Andhra Pradesh<\/p>\n<p><strong>4th attempt,<\/strong> 1st Mains, 1st Interview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question wala KW:<\/strong> Emerging tech, Metaverse, Hollywood sitcoms, Prakasam district, , unemployed, Anthropology<\/p>\n<p>No question came from these KW: Acharya Nagarjuna University, Electrical and Electronics engineering, Blockchain, CZARS, Police, Dance.<\/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<p>1. Photo and mask related stuff.Went straight to my hobbies section and told i had very intresting hobbies.<br \/>\n2. Asked what was my surname out of 2 names.<br \/>\n3. So hollywood sitcoms, have you ever been to Hollywood?<br \/>\n4. Asked me if in the entire world you were given a business class ticket where would you go? I said Japan because of so and so reasons.<br \/>\n5. Pointed to my work experience gap and grilled a lot for 2 mins. Saying you completely wasted your engineering education by choosing not to work.<br \/>\n6. Suddenly a blank face and a question on Defining human rights?<br \/>\n7. Give me 5 human rights ?<br \/>\n8. So a terrorist would have the same rights?<br \/>\n9. What about a convicted murderer?<br \/>\n10. So do you mean there are limited health rights for convicted?<br \/>\n11. So you are mixing up two things. Freedom and health? I said yes sir, sorry sir. and he passed on to next member with a very dissatisfied expression.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>( Male &#8211; sitting at my immediate left)<br \/>\n1. Started with the Work experience gap. He said you are either from a privileged background or you are living solely on love of family.<br \/>\n2. Pointed to my scholarships got clarification on what they were.<br \/>\n3. What is metaverse<br \/>\n4. Explain it to a layman with example<br \/>\n5. What are the devices we use to access metaverse<br \/>\n6. Have you hear of the recent sexual harrasment in metaverse<br \/>\n7. What should be done to regulate it?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>( male &#8211; sitting to my immediate right &#8211; most positive person in the world)<br \/>\n1. You have an intresting hobby of emerging technology. Do you think technology can be biased? Gave the generative AI example<br \/>\n2. Then what to do to ensure that such bias doesn&#8217;t creep in?<br \/>\n3. Our govt is trying to promote organic farming. We have seen success in sikkim and disaster in srilanka? Why is it so contrasting.<br \/>\n4. If you were to lead a mission to improve organic farming in India what steps would you take?<br \/>\n5. China is expanding its bases and allies how is it affecting our intrests?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>( Male &#8211; sitting 2nd to my right &#8211; long monologues from member)<br \/>\n1. He picked from my Japan answer i gave to soni sir<br \/>\n2. What is westernisation and modernisation. Do you think they are one and the same. What should a country do should it abandon traditional values and adopt western or a fusion? I said fusion<br \/>\n3. Give me 3 countries who have successfully done so ? I said china, japan, india.<br \/>\n4. China claims arunachal, what do you think claims over historical records is fair? I said no, follow current<br \/>\n5. We are claiming entire kashmir because of historical reasons? I said we have shared civilisation values, culture and people aspirations<br \/>\n6. Taiwan and china share the same culture then should they be united? I said no peoples aspirations should be taken into account.<br \/>\n\u25cb A contradictory views here in 2 similar questions may have been conveyed to the member, he was about to ask a follow up but sir pointed to mam. Member stopped.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>(Nilam sawhney Mam)<br \/>\n1. Prakasam district is a very backward district. Compared to vijayawada and Guntur why is it so?<br \/>\n2. What would you do to promote development in prakasam district?<br \/>\n3. What is the situation of fishermen in prakasam district, what are the problems they are facing?<br \/>\n4. How to solve their issues? I quoted deep water fleet, skilling etc.<br \/>\n5. How was the systems performance when covid struck? Was district adiminstration able to handle the situation well? I talked about volunteer system<br \/>\n6. Didn&#8217;t you see the hospitals not being able to meet the growing cases? I said yes mam that was the case but the admin did well within its limited resources.<\/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:\u00a0 April 12, Morning session Board: Manoj Soni sir Optional: Anthropology 2nd to go. Around 22 Mins. Home State: Andhra Pradesh 4th attempt, 1st Mains, 1st Interview. Question wala KW: Emerging tech, Metaverse, Hollywood sitcoms, Prakasam district, , unemployed, Anthropology No question came from these KW: Acharya Nagarjuna University, Electrical and Electronics engineering,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-288-manoj-soni-sir-board-anthropology-optional-andhra-pradesh-home-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #288 : Manoj Soni sir\u00a0Board, Anthropology Optional, Andhra Pradesh Home State<\/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":[11255,2641,209,11254,11312],"class_list":["post-240391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-11255","tag-andhra-pradesh","tag-anthropology","tag-interview_transcript2022","tag-manoj_soni2022","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":11,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698387457},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240391","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=240391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}