{"id":354182,"date":"2026-01-17T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=354182"},"modified":"2026-01-17T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:23:00","slug":"upsc-interview-2025-transcript-101-sheel-vardhan-sir-board-sociology-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-101-sheel-vardhan-sir-board-sociology-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #101: Sheel Vardhan Sir Board, Sociology Optional,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 08\/01\/2026<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Sheel Vardhan Sir<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Sociology<br \/>\nForenoon (1st to go)<br \/>\n<strong>DAF &#8211;<\/strong> Writing Letters\/Infosys\/Hindi Short Stories\/Sociology\/B.sc Physics(H)<\/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>Welcome to the conversation.<br \/>\nSo you write letters. When was the last time you received a letter?<br \/>\nAfter I answered, he said &#8211; \u201cI asked my daughter the same question too and she said the last letter I got was for you in 1998\u201d(all started laughing)<\/p>\n<p>Do you see any ideology in Premchand\u2019s writings?<br \/>\nWhat is Chayyavaad?<br \/>\nName the pillars of Chayyavaad.<br \/>\nWhat comes after Chaayaavad?<br \/>\nHave you read Aashadh ka ek din? What\u2019s so special about it?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Do you think you\u2019re an empowered woman?<br \/>\nAs a District Collector, if a woman comes to you with a complain of sexual harassment, what steps will you take ?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>What work does Infosys do?<br \/>\nWhat did you do in Infosys?<br \/>\nDo you think the demand for software employees from India is decreasing in the West?<br \/>\nHow does AI impact this demand?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>So you mentioned \u2018Shatranj ke Khiladi\u2019. What is that story about ?<br \/>\nWhat is doctrine of lapse? (Related to the above story)<br \/>\nWhich states were annexed by this doctrine?<br \/>\nDo you know who Epstein is?<br \/>\nWhat did he do?<br \/>\nWho all are named in those files ?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s a movie made on this story \u2018shataranj ke Khiladi\u2019. Do you know who the director is ?<br \/>\n(Chairman sir laughed and said \u201cArey ye toh bohot choti hai abhi, ye film toh hamare zamane ki hai\u201d and all started laughing)<br \/>\nHave you read \u2018Usne Kaha tha\u2019? Who wrote it?<br \/>\nWhy the prices of gold and silver increasing ?<br \/>\n(I told them about silver price increase but faltered a bit wrt gold prices, so member 3 helped me with it)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairman sir again-<\/strong><br \/>\nWhich new technology do youngsters talk about the most these days? (I said AI)<br \/>\nYoung people are excited about AI but we older folks are anxious. Can you give a sociological reason for this?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 5<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Youngsters are more intelligent these days that\u2019s why they\u2019re more adaptable. To which I replied that the wisdom and experience of older generation is much more valuable.<br \/>\nSir said &#8211; \u201coh you made me happy\u201d and all started laughing again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairman Sir &#8211;<\/strong><br \/>\nYour interview is over. It was nice talking with you.<\/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: 08\/01\/2026 Board: Sheel Vardhan Sir Optional: Sociology Forenoon (1st to go) DAF &#8211; Writing Letters\/Infosys\/Hindi Short Stories\/Sociology\/B.sc Physics(H) To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2025,\u00a0visit this page Chairman Welcome to the conversation. So you write letters. When was the last time you received a letter? After I answered, he said &#8211; \u201cI&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2025-transcript-101-sheel-vardhan-sir-board-sociology-optional\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2025] \u2013 Transcript #101: Sheel Vardhan Sir Board, Sociology Optional,<\/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":[12150,12148,12152,1691],"class_list":["post-354182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview-transcripts-2025","tag-12150","tag-interview_transcript2025","tag-sheel_vardhan2025","tag-sociology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354182","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=354182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}