{"id":331422,"date":"2025-04-02T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T06:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=331422"},"modified":"2025-04-02T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T06:50:10","slug":"upsc-interview-2024-transcript-38-bidyut-behari-swain-board-philosophy-optional-kerala-home-state-cooking-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-38-bidyut-behari-swain-board-philosophy-optional-kerala-home-state-cooking-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #38: Bidyut Behari Swain Board, Philosophy Optional, Kerala Home State, Cooking Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 28-03-2025<strong><br \/>\nBoard:<\/strong>\u00a0Bidyut Behari Swain<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Philosophy<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Kerala<br \/>\n<strong>Hobby:<\/strong> Cooking<br \/>\n<strong>Session:<\/strong> Forenoon 4th to go<br \/>\nMost of the questions were daf based.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key words:<\/strong> India Post, Kerala, Cooking, Mohiniyattam, Nature club, Environmental Studies<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2024,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/#it2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Is India Post still have relevance?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. About environmental politics<br \/>\n2. Women in kerala film industry<br \/>\n3. Nature club activities<br \/>\n4. Philosophy in personal life and modern world and discussion around it.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Principle vs progress debate<br \/>\n2. Judges going for hollyday trips , its ethical concerns and about PIL<br \/>\n3.Adaptations in Kerala cuisine and discussion<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Relevance of\u00a0 Mohiniyattam, Kalaripayattu, Kathakali and discussion and 3 innovative suggestions for govt to promote these.<br \/>\n2.American democracy vs Chinese democracy.<br \/>\n3. About Greenland issue<br \/>\n4.Three innovative methods to make India Post self sufficient.<br \/>\n5.Two areas where Kerala govt can perform better.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Alcoholism in Kerala<br \/>\n2. Name two favourite western philosophers.<br \/>\n3.Challenges in Idukki district and discussion.<br \/>\n4.Why didn&#8217;t go for masters in physics despite having high cgpa.<\/p>\n<p>Board was very cordial.<br \/>\nAround 30-35 minutes<br \/>\nO2O-\u00a0 Enlite IAS<\/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 2025:\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: 28-03-2025 Board:\u00a0Bidyut Behari Swain Optional: Philosophy Home State: Kerala Hobby: Cooking Session: Forenoon 4th to go Most of the questions were daf based. Key words: India Post, Kerala, Cooking, Mohiniyattam, Nature club, Environmental Studies To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2024,\u00a0visit this page Chairman 1. Is India Post still have relevance? Member&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-38-bidyut-behari-swain-board-philosophy-optional-kerala-home-state-cooking-hobby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #38: Bidyut Behari Swain Board, Philosophy Optional, Kerala Home State, Cooking 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":[12077,9],"tags":[12062,12069,7990,12063,1748,1702],"class_list":["post-331422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2024","category-public","tag-12062","tag-bb_swain2024","tag-cooking","tag-interview_transcript2024","tag-kerala","tag-philosophy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331422","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=331422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}