{"id":351962,"date":"2025-12-16T11:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=351962"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:50:04","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-38-sujata-chaturvedi-board-anthropology-optional-uttar-pradesh-home-state-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-38-sujata-chaturvedi-board-anthropology-optional-uttar-pradesh-home-state-singing\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #38: Sujata Chaturvedi Board, Anthropology Optional, Uttar Pradesh Home State, Singing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 12\/12\/25, Forenoon<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Sujata Chaturvedi Ma\u2019am<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Anthropology<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Uttar Pradesh<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong> Singing, Paper on Tradition Healing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key DAF details:<\/strong> Ghaziabad, Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Kathak, Devotional Singing, Paper on Tradition Healing.<\/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>1) Why did you take anthropology as a subject ?<br \/>\n2) Does it place you in a better position to understand people ?<br \/>\n3) An instance for the above.<br \/>\n4) Does Empathy Facilitate Administration ?<br \/>\n5) What if you are an empathetic person but your decision is not popular ?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) What is Gender Bias ?<br \/>\n2) What if your decisions are seen to be harsh (being a woman) and that of your male counterpart dynamic ?<br \/>\n3) What is the difference between sustainable agriculture and regenarative agriculture?<br \/>\n4) Which Gharana of Kathak do you belong to (LKO gharana), How is it different from Jaipur Gharana ?<br \/>\n5) What does India stands for peace and is against war means ?<br \/>\n6) In what context was it used ?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) What is Lasya ?<br \/>\n2) What was your presentation about traditional tribal healing about?<br \/>\n3) Why such fascination with tribes ?<br \/>\n4) What is white metal, why has it\u2019s price been soaring ?<br \/>\n5) What is the nudge theory?<br \/>\n6) Has the nudge theory been used in Policy?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) Were you happy that you chair is a woman ? (I said yes, he asked isn\u2019t that gender bias?)<br \/>\n2) If you are posted at the Ministry of Women and Child, what are some areas you will like to work on?<br \/>\n3) What will you do for vulnerable women ?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) What do you know about the Manipur Conflict ?<br \/>\n2) What is the current status of the conflict ? How will you resolve the same ?<br \/>\n3) Why have the tribes of Andaman and Nicobar been isolated ?<br \/>\n4) What is PVTG ? (asked by chairperson)<br \/>\n4) What is the genetic basis of the same ?<br \/>\n5) What is Emotional Intelligence ?<\/p>\n<p>By what I understood the most controllable thing is to the keep smiling.<\/p>\n<p>All the Best!<\/p>\n<div class=\"Reactions\" dir=\"ltr\">\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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Interview: 12\/12\/25, Forenoon Board: Sujata Chaturvedi Ma\u2019am Optional: Anthropology Home State: Uttar Pradesh Hobbies: Singing, Paper on Tradition Healing. Key DAF details: Ghaziabad, Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Kathak, Devotional Singing, Paper on Tradition Healing. To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman 1) Why did you take anthropology as a subject ?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-38-sujata-chaturvedi-board-anthropology-optional-uttar-pradesh-home-state-singing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #38: Sujata Chaturvedi Board, Anthropology Optional, Uttar Pradesh Home State, Singing<\/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":[12150,209,12148,7973,12159,2183],"class_list":["post-351962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-anthropology","tag-interview_transcript2025","tag-singing","tag-sujatha-chaturvedi2025","tag-uttar-pradesh","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351962","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=351962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}