{"id":99839,"date":"2021-04-04T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T04:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=99839"},"modified":"2021-04-04T10:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T05:17:22","slug":"upsc-interview-transcript-by-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-transcript-by-5\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview Transcript #130]: TCA Anant Board, Kerala Home State, History Optional, Music Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Home State:<\/strong> Palakkad, Kerala
\nBackground:<\/strong>– B.Tech EC from Cochin University, M.Tech in RF and Microwave
\nEngineering:<\/strong>\u00a0IIT Kharagpur
\nHobbies:<\/strong> Music, History, Learning Languages
\nOptional:<\/strong>– History
\nDate of Interview:<\/strong>– 06\/03\/2020
\nBoard:-<\/strong> TCA Anant Sir<\/p>\n

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Chairman<\/h3>\n
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  1. Entered, was greeted with a smile.<\/li>\n
  2. Chair read the DAF aloud.<\/li>\n
  3. Chair:- From Engineering to History how did that happen?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Member 1<\/h3>\n
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    1. What is the deal about History, right winger and Left Wingers, what are they fighting<\/li>\n
    2. Are you saying India didn\u2019t exist?<\/li>\n
    3. How about Ashoka and Harsha and others ?<\/li>\n
    4. Why so much emphasis on Medieval Indian History?<\/li>\n
    5. So dearth of sources is the reason?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Member 2<\/h3>\n
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      1. So, you are from IIT Kharagpur, What was it before?<\/li>\n
      2. Why is the place important?<\/li>\n
      3. Who is the most important person w.r.t RF technology?<\/li>\n
      4. It is J C Bose, where did he get this idea from? (Didn\u2019t Know)<\/li>\n
      5. Where did this happen (Didn\u2019t know)<\/li>\n
      6. Which is you favorite part of History ? (I said Medieval )<\/li>\n
      7. Who is your favorite Historian? (I said Upinder Singh)<\/li>\n
      8. Who is Upinder Singh ? I have not known her I am from DU as well? What is her contribution?<\/li>\n
      9. I said about she being daughter of Manmohan Singh. He accepted it. I spoke about her Feminism in History about, vedic period and Gargi and her debates..<\/li>\n
      10. What is special about Vedic Period in 600 BCE if I say it was dominated by a Symbol Sign and Logic. (Had no clue )<\/li>\n
      11. Who is your favorite social reformer? (I said Basava)<\/li>\n
      12. Who is satyarthi. What was his contribution?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Member 3<\/h3>\n
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        1. You are into Music, what sort of Music do you like? (I said about Carnatic Music and Rabindra Sangeet)<\/li>\n
        2. What is so special about Tagore? (Spoke about Sub Nationalism, Nationalism and
          \ninternationalism)<\/li>\n
        3. How many languages do you speak. I said about 7 languages and they smiled, I also speak a bit of German, so question took a different tone from there.<\/li>\n
        4. What is the new technology which is implemented in the Tolls these days. (RFID)<\/li>\n
        5. What is the name given to that program (Was about FASTTAG, didn\u2019t recollect it then, though he gave a lot of clue)<\/li>\n
        6. Courts are having a lot of case pendencies, are lawyers taking court for a toll. ( I said yes, but I also criticized government a bit by not taking decisions and passing buck to the courts)<\/li>\n
        7. Chair :- Can you give an example (Spoke about many, like Kaveri issue, Homosexuality, Ayodhya issue all must have been a political solution and Judicial Solutions)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Member 4<\/h3>\n
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          1. What is HAM Radio? Where is it used? What is the specialities? (Couldn\u2019t answer much, but they insisted and got busted a bit)<\/li>\n
          2. What about Nazi Germany , some of their dark period has made them what they are?<\/li>\n
          3. Have you visited Concentration camps?<\/li>\n
          4. What was the experiment he did on Twin babies (Didn\u2019t know much)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Chairman<\/strong> said interview is over..<\/p>\n

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            1. If you want to know the answer I can type it up in detail as well, Coz most question flowed from one to another.<\/li>\n
            2. They were very cordial over all, and I could smile through out the interview.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n