{"id":351667,"date":"2025-12-10T16:51:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=351667"},"modified":"2025-12-10T16:51:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:21:44","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-14-anuradha-prasad-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-14-anuradha-prasad-board\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #14: Anuradha Prasad Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 9th December 2025<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Anuradha Prasad Ma&#8217;am<br \/>\n<strong>DAF Keywords(which were asked):<\/strong> Public Policy Analyst, Cyber Security,<br \/>\nB.El.Ed, Josh Talks, United Nations [nothing else asked from DAF, these things took up enough time. Learning- the richer your DAF, more predictable the interview- I had tackled 80% of these questions in mocks]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/#it2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Q1: So you were a Public Policy Analyst. Tell me other avenues from your graduation, as it is a unique course.<br \/>\nQ2: Cyber Security- Australia has banned social media for children below 16. Do you think we should do so in India?<br \/>\nQ3: Let&#8217;s say we do implement, can you tell me what will be the practical steps that need to be taken? Very implementable, not arbitrary steps.<br \/>\nQ4: If a cyber crime happens, who are the stakeholders? Apart from the ones who do the crime?<br \/>\nQ5: What are personality rights? (I had led them on to this question with my earlier answer)<br \/>\nQ6: If Anil Kapoor and Amitabh Bacchan are fighting for their personality rights, why are they doing so?<br \/>\nQ7: Difference between fiscal and monetary policy?<br \/>\nQ8: By giving examples, share what is under the domain of fiscal and what is under monetary policy from these 3: inflation, employment and currency depreciation (I had given these 3 examples in my earlier answer)<br \/>\nQ9: How does forex and G Sec sale and purchase impact currency prices?<br \/>\n(At the end of this the discussion they had gone into economics and it started building pressure on me, so I gracefully admitted: ma&#8217;am I&#8217;ll read up more deeply on it to be able to explain it coherently)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Q1: You were earning a handsome amount as an Anchor and content strategy manager at Josh Talks. What was your role there? Why did you resign? What inspired you for civil services?<br \/>\nQ2: There is a rising trend of female IPS officers who are encounter specialists. Would you want to become encounter specialist?<br \/>\nQ3: Let&#8217;s say you get into the services, where do you see yourself in the next 10 years?<br \/>\nQ4: You only talked about your professional life. Aims for your personal life?<br \/>\nQ5: Have you ever been criticised? How do you handle criticism?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Q1: World humanitarian summit at UN. Tell us more about it. What was your role? How did you earn the certificate of excellence there?<br \/>\nQ2- What are human rights?<br \/>\n(Sir was quite aged, just smiling and jovial)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Q1: You talked about Tata Nano earlier. (I had given it as an example regarding my role at Josh talks- a topic I covered as an Anchor). Tell me, why did it fail?<br \/>\nQ2. If you were to be given the responsibility of re-marketing Nano, how would you go about it?<br \/>\nQ3. Folks at TATA are quite smart, they would have thought about relaunching NANO. Why didn&#8217;t they?<br \/>\nQ4. Do you think that Nano should be relaunched in India? If yes, should it be relaunched at the same price??<br \/>\nQ5- Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re driving from home to office, and you break a traffic rule. The traffic cop will agree to let you go if you give 200-250 rupees to him. No one from office has seen that you broke the law. What will you do?<br \/>\nQ6: What is the difference between blockchain and bitcoin?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Q1: Lavanya, India tops the list of countries which face Cyber attacks. How do we tackle this menace? Since you&#8217;ve worked in public policy analysis of cybersecurity.<br \/>\nQ2. Which ministry should be put cybersecurity under? Defence? MEITY? External affairs?<br \/>\nQ3. What is the AI readiness of India? How do we navigate the coming challenges?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairperson:<\/strong> Last question to you Lavanya. Do you think TATA Nano will succeed if it is launched today?<\/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 2026:\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: 9th December 2025 Board: Anuradha Prasad Ma&#8217;am DAF Keywords(which were asked): Public Policy Analyst, Cyber Security, B.El.Ed, Josh Talks, United Nations [nothing else asked from DAF, these things took up enough time. Learning- the richer your DAF, more predictable the interview- I had tackled 80% of these questions in mocks] To view&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-14-anuradha-prasad-board\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #14: Anuradha Prasad Board<\/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":[12147],"tags":[12150,12153,12148],"class_list":["post-351667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-anuradha-prasad2025","tag-interview_transcript2025","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351667","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=351667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}