{"id":242030,"date":"2023-05-15T10:16:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T04:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=242030"},"modified":"2023-05-13T12:07:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T06:37:17","slug":"upsc-interview-2022-transcript-312-smita-nagaraj-maam-board-sociology-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-312-smita-nagaraj-maam-board-sociology-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #312 : Smita Nagaraj ma&#8217;am Board, Sociology Optional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 28-04-2023; forenoon: last to go<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Smita Nagraj ma&#8217;am<br \/>\n<strong>DAF:<\/strong> blockchain, sociology, mental health<\/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>&#8211; Have you heard about the book &#8220;everybody loves a good drought&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; who wrote it, what was it about<br \/>\n&#8211; have you witnessed corruption in real life<br \/>\n&#8211; why is there corruption when people seem so ethical in interviews<br \/>\n&#8211; is it only institutional pressure<br \/>\n&#8211; why rules are bad<br \/>\n&#8211; should there be discretion in administration<br \/>\n&#8211; what about discretion in this interview<br \/>\n&#8211; how do we reduce that<br \/>\n&#8211; what about bias<br \/>\n&#8211; identify a bias you have<br \/>\n&#8211; there is caste bias in even elite institutions, why is it there<br \/>\n&#8211; have you seen it?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; You won scholarship from Google, what is crowdsourcing at Google<br \/>\n&#8211; You were involved in mental health society, what did you do<br \/>\n&#8211; how could you take preventive steps without counseling<br \/>\n&#8211; opinion about fact check<br \/>\n&#8211; opinion about name change<br \/>\n&#8211; family and mental health<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; reasons for delay in nuclear technology<br \/>\n(Talked about some specific term which I didn&#8217;t know)<br \/>\n&#8211; discussion on gig economy and social security<br \/>\n&#8211; Gandhi&#8217;s 7 sins and &#8220;politics w\/o principle&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; crypto and other use cases of blockchain<br \/>\n&#8211; insurance and how to improve this sector (I had mentioned ndhm and insurance in previous answer)<br \/>\n&#8211; insurance and other sectors have monopoly also so what is the government doing<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8211; discussion on crypto regulation ( few follow up questions)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Experience:<\/strong> sahi tha.. 20-25 mins only because the board was running behind schedule.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mocks:<\/strong> 5 including one to one; good ones were Chahal and Chanakya Mandal<\/p>\n<p><strong>Utility of mocks:<\/strong> helps get confidence<\/p>\n<p>All the best to everyone \ud83d\ude42<\/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: 28-04-2023; forenoon: last to go Board: Smita Nagraj ma&#8217;am DAF: blockchain, sociology, mental health To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2022, visit this page Chairman &#8211; Have you heard about the book &#8220;everybody loves a good drought&#8221; &#8211; who wrote it, what was it about &#8211; have you witnessed corruption in real&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-312-smita-nagaraj-maam-board-sociology-optional\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #312 : Smita Nagaraj ma&#8217;am Board, Sociology 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":[11255,11254,11269],"class_list":["post-242030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-11255","tag-interview_transcript2022","tag-smita_nagraj2022","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":3,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698422106},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242030","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=242030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}