{"id":351671,"date":"2025-12-11T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=351671"},"modified":"2025-12-11T16:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:17:29","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-18-sanjay-verma-board-badminton-marathon-hobbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-18-sanjay-verma-board-badminton-marathon-hobbies\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #18: Sanjay Verma Board, badminton, marathon Hobbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 09\/12\/2025<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Sanjay Verma sir<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> badminton, marathon<br \/>\n<strong>DAF keywords &#8211;<\/strong> Electrical, Kota, Maths, Internal Security, Foreign languages, teaching students, volunteering with NGO, badminton, marathon, taekwondo, kvpy, research award, student mentor<\/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>\u25cb Hot tea is being served would you like to have one<br \/>\n\u25cb You have written learning about foreign languages so in which languages are you familiar with<br \/>\n\u25cb Sir said, okay let&#8217;s leave this, wikipedia se 2 pg padh liye honge (don&#8217;t mind it it may be just to test your reaction)<br \/>\n\u25cb Compare T20 and Swiggy<br \/>\n\u25cb Who faces the burden<br \/>\n\u25cb The traffic situation hampers because they move wrong side on the road due to time constraints. What do you think?<br \/>\n\u25cb They are being given tips and players have a choice to play or not<br \/>\n\u25cb Tell me 3 unique things about China which normal people may not know<br \/>\n\u00a7 CPEC corridor<br \/>\n\u00a7 Artificial Sun (praised after listening this)<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u25cb Which countries would survive in a world war and nuclear weapons are used (I said island nations and Chairman said good)<br \/>\n\u25cb Which countries are Indians present apart from US, UK, etc<br \/>\n\u25cb How are they present there<br \/>\n\u25cb Do you know about indentured labourers<br \/>\n\u25cb Do you know or just guessing<br \/>\n\u25cb So if Indians are living in Fiji so why did they not come back<br \/>\n\u25cb Did they serve a contract<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u25cb Consider a situation where you have recently joined as DM. CM has just inaugurated the pharma industry but people there are approaching you about harmful waste being disposed and envtal concerns. What would you do<br \/>\n\u25cb If the industry people are powerful then what would you do<br \/>\n\u25cb But CM himself has himself inaugurated<br \/>\n\u25cb A situation where tribals live but no proper health facilities and doctors are not willing to go. How would you convince them<br \/>\n\u25cb She said due to lack of education and such opportunities they are not going what would you do<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u25cb Do you know Henry Kissinger. He said that it is better to be enemy of US than to be a friend. Do you think this makes sense?<br \/>\n\u25cb Importance of Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep islands<br \/>\n\u00a7 Strategic &#8211; Malacca strait<br \/>\n\u00a7 Airbase<br \/>\n\u25cb Tell me continuing with tribal regions that isn\u2019t this contradictory that on one hand we have to preserve tribal culture and also to provide then proper education<br \/>\n\u25cb Will it be right to have them come in such places with the type of clothes they wear<br \/>\n\u25cb Is modernity same as westernisation<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u25cb You have done jee preparation from Kota &#8211; there are a lot of suicides so what can be done<br \/>\n\u25cb What about formative years of schooling when such mindset is developed<br \/>\n\u25cb How would you teach values to children<br \/>\n\u25cb How would you teach them about failure and success in life<br \/>\n\u00a7 Role models and inspirational journeys of people<br \/>\n\u00a7 She said sports helps you experience failure and then you learn from your mistakes<br \/>\n\u2022<strong> Chairman<\/strong> said your interview is over. I thanked all the members<\/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: 09\/12\/2025 Board: Sanjay Verma sir Hobbies: badminton, marathon DAF keywords &#8211; Electrical, Kota, Maths, Internal Security, Foreign languages, teaching students, volunteering with NGO, badminton, marathon, taekwondo, kvpy, research award, student mentor To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman \u25cb Hot tea is being served would you like to have&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-18-sanjay-verma-board-badminton-marathon-hobbies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #18: Sanjay Verma Board, badminton, marathon Hobbies<\/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":[12150,9355,12148,12151],"class_list":["post-351671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-badminton","tag-interview_transcript2025","tag-sanjay_verma2025","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351671","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=351671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}