{"id":79645,"date":"2021-02-16T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T03:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=79645"},"modified":"2021-02-20T19:34:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T14:04:31","slug":"upsc-interview-transcript-15-smita-nagraj-madam-board-maharashtra-home-state-postgraduation-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-transcript-15-smita-nagraj-madam-board-maharashtra-home-state-postgraduation-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview transcript #15] :Smita Nagraj Madam Board, Maharashtra Home State, Postgraduation in history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Interview Date:<\/strong> 20 Feb 2020
\nDuration:<\/strong> 30 minutes (Forenoon Session)
\nBoard<\/strong>: Smita Nagraj madam
\nBackground: <\/strong>Postgraduation in history
\nHome State: <\/strong>Maharashtra<\/p>\n

Chairman<\/h3>\n
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  1. What are the employment avenues available for a history postgraduate?<\/li>\n
  2. Why did you not go into the history research field?<\/li>\n
  3. Why should we do research if that creates controversy and disturb harmony?<\/li>\n
  4. Which history do you like most?<\/li>\n
  5. What’s the one lesson modern Indian history teaches us?<\/li>\n
  6. Was India a nation before Britishers came here<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Member 1<\/h3>\n
      \n
    1. Who are Anganwadi workers? ICDS? Pocso act?<\/li>\n
    2. We pressurise girls to behave in a “proper manner”. Is it time now to pressurise boys?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Member 2<\/h3>\n
        \n
      1. Yavatmal Farmer’s suicide reasons History repeats itself explain<\/li>\n
      2. Explain Unity in diversity (it was written on the calendar on the wall )<\/li>\n
      3. Which book did you read recently<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Member 3<\/h3>\n
          \n
        1. History is written by the winners, what’s your advice to the losers?<\/li>\n
        2. Tell us about a current economic scenario in India<\/li>\n
        3. Corona impact on economy Fiscal deficit under control?<\/li>\n
        4. Are you aware of the recent debate on real fiscal deficit numbers being suppressed?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Member 4<\/h3>\n
            \n
          1. Tell us about the Mihan project<\/li>\n
          2. Name 5 problems before India<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            For more interview transcript, visit the Complete IAS Interview Preparation Guide<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Interview Date: 20 Feb 2020 Duration: 30 minutes (Forenoon Session) Board: Smita Nagraj madam Background: Postgraduation in history Home State: Maharashtra Chairman What are the employment avenues available for a history postgraduate? Why did you not go into the history research field? Why should we do research if that creates controversy and disturb harmony?… Continue reading [UPSC Interview transcript #15] :Smita Nagraj Madam Board, Maharashtra Home State, Postgraduation in history<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1661,1653,1708],"class_list":["post-79645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-1661","tag-interview_transcript","tag-smita_nagraj","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1612174235},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79645","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}