Civil Services Mains 2020 Results: In or Out ? Way ahead, gratitude and Pain
The Civils Mains result has been declared. This thread is for sharing your grief , joy , mixed feelings - absolutely anything and everything.
India has first presence , china came second and it's gaining and taking advantages there by its diplomacy like the above. The Hindu newspaper should not publish this without government permission as it's vivid how China accedes further step by step. I think so.
for current affairs we need to do past 2 year issues ??? am i right ?? so how to cover past one year current affairs ?? monthlies or mains 365 or pt 365 or something else ??@AzadHindFauz @whatonly @SergioRamos @sjerngal @nerdfighter @Villanelle @LetsGetThisBread @Rashmirathi @fortarach63 @Infinitybeyondinfinity and all other peeps
You cannot possibly do so much current affairs. I’m sure there are people who do it, but it’s not possible to do so. Do one year’s worth very thoroughly and make sure you know enough background knowledge about the topic, that should help you cover things. I use my notes that I make from insights daily C/A as the base notes and I also do the vision PT 365 towards the end just to make sure I’ve covered all my bases. More importantly you have to remember that prelims isn’t about getting all 100 questions correct, you need to only know a maximum of 110-120 marks worth of things, for which a good hold over static will help as well. Don’t lose sleep over C/A beyond what is controllable. I’m sure the others could add to this/ give you an entirely different perspective on it.
i am not an expert, but so far my limited knowledge goes, soft power projection is a legitimate way of gaining goodwill and change perceptions. Every embassy takes measures to boost its soft power and project its values in foreign lands, thats what diplomacy is for. Our diplomats celbrate diwali and yoga day, for china it's cpc centenary.@Arsene one wonders what even is the point of CPC putting up advertisements in Indian newspapers. I believe it’s just ‘communist’ propaganda which definitely has a lot of takers in India.@D503 trade between India and China did not halt. An ethical problem would have arisen if we had alternatives which I don’t think we did. India is very much dependent on China for trade and halting it would be disastrous for the economy, the COVID fight and what not. Would China allow an Indian Govt./ BJP advertisement in their newspapers? In fact, we don’t see any other ads from political parties of different countries. IR students could better analyse it but I believe this is just how China wants to gain greater acceptance and shed negative perceptions about it.Plus when you have the reader’s editor giving sermons about journalistic ethics every now and then, it really isn’t a good look. Even if it’s coming from the Embassy it’s CPC propaganda. But then again, moolah speaks and I’m guessing not enough people have ever raised an issue with this so The Hindu sees no problems in doing it. Only thing that irks me is a newspaper which is so concerned with ethics, journalistic standards and many other buzzwords, in essence this is all that these words are to them, buzzwords.
RaGa,
Arsene,MaeveWiley@D503 While every help we got from
China was much appreciated, but last I read it was of commercial nature not
aid. Nevertheless, any help is welcome.
But that’s not the point. An
embassy or any organisation are free to publish or propagate their
views and ideology. They have every right to do so, no doubt about it. But my
question was not directed towards them or even Indian govt for that matter.
Rather it was directed towards a national media. Surely considering that they
do have ethical norms and journalistic standards, could they have at least appreciated and
respect the sensitivities. My question was simple - could they have drawn the
line somewhere?
Regarding your point on reading about Mao, definitely not wrong to read about it at all. In fact, I am all for reading their history for better understanding and could even help us if we can learn from the mistakes. But I think it’s somewhat inappropriate or unethical if you go out and celebrate that person and whitewash his crimes, without acknowledging and respecting the sentiments of those who were killed particularly even more so for a national media.
for current affairs we need to do past 2 year issues ??? am i right ?? so how to cover past one year current affairs ?? monthlies or mains 365 or pt 365 or something else ??@AzadHindFauz @whatonly @SergioRamos @sjerngal @nerdfighter @Villanelle @LetsGetThisBread @Rashmirathi @fortarach63 @Infinitybeyondinfinity and all other peeps
What @LetsGetThisBread said. I did monthlies for prelims and mains 365 for mains. This year for lack of time i am doing half pt 375 and half monthlies. If you do it smartly, really understand the stuff that matters and disregard the stuff that doesn't, and revise enough, I think it should be enough. Besides, a lot of issues are repeated across two years. I think doing one year intensively is better than doing two years less intensively.
THE_MECHANIC,
on serious note..very same people who question ethics The Hindu publishing ad of CPC will dare not question our own govt or army who have surrendered Depsang plain so meekly and they wont even accept it despite multiple accounts telling that chinese have blocked our patrol to those areas ( defacto change of LAC).
Whole Nationalism and ethics is limited to newspaper and not to govt of the day which is taking us down economically, socially and militarily, consequence of which will be borne by future generation.
focusing on convenient superficial thing rather matter of substance.
on serious note..very same people who question ethics The Hindu publishing ad of CPC will dare not question our own govt or army who have surrendered Depsang plain so meekly and they wont even accept it despite multiple accounts telling that chinese have blocked our patrol to those areas ( defacto change of LAC).
Whole Nationalism and ethics is limited to newspaper and not to govt of the day which is taking us down economically, socially and militarily consequence of which will be borne by future generation.
I was hoping to make this discussion civil as much as possible and that includes not making false assumptions and painting everyone with the same brush. Of course, we should question it or else it would be plain hyprocritic of us.
Could they have handled this better? Yes.
Could they have been more transparent on border issue? Yes. So didnt I dare now? We are free to question everything.
But right now, I wanted to focus on a particular issue. Else the discussion tends to get political and would not want to discourage others to share their views.
on serious note..very same people who question ethics The Hindu publishing ad of CPC will dare not question our own govt or army who have surrendered Depsang plain so meekly and they wont even accept it despite multiple accounts telling that chinese have blocked our patrol to those areas ( defacto change of LAC).
Whole Nationalism and ethics is limited to newspaper and not to govt of the day which is taking us down economically, socially and militarily, consequence of which will be borne by future generation.
I don't think these two things are by any means comparable.
Moot point is CCP runs a totalitarian govt, not to mention the ongoing ethnic cleansing of millions, which the world just conveniently turns a blind eye to. Is it okay for a newspaper which otherwise espouses democratic values to give them space for ads? The Hindu editorial team should've known better than to publish pages after pages of its propaganda, no matter the fact that its completely legitimate.
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