{"id":332517,"date":"2025-04-11T17:32:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=332517"},"modified":"2025-04-11T15:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T10:25:32","slug":"upsc-interview-2024-transcript-54-dinesh-dasa-sir-board-sociology-optional-maharashtra-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-54-dinesh-dasa-sir-board-sociology-optional-maharashtra-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #54: Dinesh Dasa Sir Board, Sociology Optional, Maharashtra\u00a0Home State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Board:<\/strong> Dinesh Dasa Sir<br \/>\n<strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 02 April, afternoon session (2nd to go)<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Sociology<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Maharashtra<br \/>\n<strong>Daf keywords-<\/strong> nagpur, sociology ( else nothing from daf asked)<\/p>\n<p>(Entered and said good morning in afternoon session &#8211; first mistake)<\/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. Introduce yourself<br \/>\n2. Tell me about the 3 revolution happened in Europe during 18th century and what impact it had on India.<br \/>\n3. U came from Maharashtra, there is a controversy regarding a comedian, what is it?<br \/>\n4. What is your opinion is it relevant?<br \/>\n5. What about demolition drives happening?<br \/>\n6. I read a news in today&#8217;s newspaper that Supreme Court has ordered compensation, why they are compensating?<br \/>\n7. In such situations what 3 qualities are required in civil servants?<br \/>\n8. How u are going to manage such situations?<br \/>\n9. Why mihan is important? What is it&#8217;s relevance for Maharashtra?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. Tell me about weber&#8217;s theory of capitalism. Do u think Protestant ethics had a role to play?<br \/>\n2. What about weber&#8217;s theory of bureaucracy?<br \/>\n3. Which 3 tenets of weber&#8217;s bureaucracy theory u want to have?<br \/>\n4. What is genx, geny, genz? What are there peculiarities?<br \/>\n5. I am asking about how these generations impacted the world?<br \/>\n6. I should tell you that they were called baby bloomers, why?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. (Long monologue)What is China&#8217;s share on global trade and manufacturing?<br \/>\n2. What is our share?<br \/>\n3. Why China is ahead?<br \/>\n4. Tell me the difference between agricultural productivity of both countries?<br \/>\n5. Do u favour gm crops?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. U said u favour gm crops, then why they are not here still?<br \/>\n2. At what time they were introduced in America? Counter questions<br \/>\n3. Is there no political will in india?<br \/>\n4. How should we proceed for gm crops. What are the steps required?<br \/>\n5. Which gm crops is currently produced in India?<br \/>\n6. What happened to gm mustard?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>(Looking at my hand movements)<br \/>\n1. Which party u will vote for in America? Republicans or democrats, whom u r fond of?( Got confused about recent party ruling there)<br \/>\n2. Dasa sir- I will clarify for u , u would have voted for Kamala Harris or Trump? Why?<br \/>\n3. What is the federal structure of India? Tell 3 positive and 3 negatives.<br \/>\n4. Why is it so that only in times of crisis all come together?<br \/>\n5. What should be done? Do u think doing this will ensure we are one?<br \/>\n6. What is Quad? Do u think we can add security dimensions in Quad?<br \/>\n7. If we will add security dimensions then won&#8217;t it go against our non-alignment strategy?<br \/>\nChairman sir- time is over.<br \/>\nChairman sir-<br \/>\n1. I want to ask u one last question, who is your role model?<br \/>\nWhy?<br \/>\n2. Have u met her? Do u want to meet her as an ias probitioner?<br \/>\nOne thing I want to ask u , u were looking tensed while u came inside. What were you thinking outside?<br \/>\nOk&#8230;.your interview is over. Thank you<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall experience:<\/strong> board was coordial.<\/p>\n<p>Mocks: sriram ias, vajirao, Maharashtra Sadan, only ias, samkalp (most close), next ias<\/p>\n<p><strong>One to one:<\/strong> vinay sir( insights ias), utkarsh sir ( sriram ias), shinaz sir( ilearn ias), quantel.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Mahesh Bhagwat sir (IPS)<\/p>\n<p>My transcript sir<\/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<div class=\"wp-block-group has-border-color\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Board: Dinesh Dasa Sir Date of Interview: 02 April, afternoon session (2nd to go) Optional: Sociology Home State: Maharashtra Daf keywords- nagpur, sociology ( else nothing from daf asked) (Entered and said good morning in afternoon session &#8211; first mistake) To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2024,\u00a0visit this page Chairman 1. Introduce yourself 2. Tell&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2024-transcript-54-dinesh-dasa-sir-board-sociology-optional-maharashtra-home-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UPSC Interview 2024] \u2013 Transcript #54: Dinesh Dasa Sir Board, Sociology Optional, Maharashtra\u00a0Home 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":[12077],"tags":[12062,12081,12063,2043,1691],"class_list":["post-332517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2024","tag-12062","tag-dinesh_dasa2024","tag-interview_transcript2024","tag-maharashtra","tag-sociology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332517","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=332517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}