I have just started this thread for physics optional.
https://forumias.com/post/detail/Thread-for-Physics-Optional-1621254429
Let's keep on posting our thoughts there. Maybe others will join.
@SergioRamos @Villanelle and others, here is what I think is basically wrong with this Insight plan. And mostly their other plans too.
To me, Insights always seem to misplace priorities. In a gap of 140 days, you can safely leave 40 to 50 days dedicated for prelims. Among the remaining 90 odd days, they want you to stretch Ethics for 50 days, which is too much.
And are you really not going to read the newspaper at all? How long is the day inInsightland? 28 hours?
The template goes for most of the insight plans. They somehow assume their students to be akin to Nietzsche'sUbermensch. Alas, we are only human and less efficient.
What you can do is take two things at a time: Ethics And Optional. And then Optional and Some other GS paper. Augment them with your revision of CA.
Lastly, look at their approach towards optional. Day 1 you are solving question 1, which might not be a complete topic but only be dealing with a fraction of the topic.
Day 2, you are solving a new question, which in itself will not be completed.
By the end of the week, you have 7 unfinished, half-cooked topics of your optional, rather than having 4 well finished,throw-me-any-decent-question-I-have-level-of-preparationtopics.
Bizzare.
- Explain the possible implications for the States of the interpretation of the 102nd Amendment by the Supreme Court in the Maratha reservation case. (250 words)
- Private Cryptocurrencies are best treated as risky investment assets rather than actual currencies in the age of renewed inflation fears. Analyse. (250 words)
Questions like these do not make you write better answers. They make you write summaries from a POV.
Me. By a distant mile.
Found this utterly true.
So just shared !
Speaking of such cultures, there is another trend:Study Blogging.
Some aspirants have started their pages where they would post snapshots of their notes, their rooms full of books, and their cute tables, filled with sticky notes and a cup of hot coffee sitting right there. And then many of these future officers would like to be addressed as "Ma'am", and "Sir".
Right from day 1.
Oh man. I thought this was limited to “Can I see a picture of your study room for CSE?” questions on Quora. There are complete blogs dedicated to this?
My study room looks like a murder just happened there.
There you go.
thesleepyhead,Here is a screenshot for all of us to contemplate about how boring our own UPSC life is. My idea of a break is usually coffee, TV Series, and Floyd in the loudest possible sound level.
So 3rd world country like.
@Villanelle ,@Patootie ,@whatonly
Really?
P.S: My memes are ugly as I make them using thesame appI use for taking screenshots.
And how I thought I would be spared on forum 😂
Right from roll calls in schools to kejri making this word to come as a front headline, it’s been 23 years of realising the fact how a missing ‘A’ could ruin your name xD
btw it’s Dh-aa-r-na :)
You thought you would be spared on Forum. And then you weren't.
Kya aapki Dh-aa-r-na ab badal gayi? :P
@nerdfighter you should make a blog on how to use anki for upsc . i have seen you use it on daily basis.
Anki is really helpful. When I was hoping for Mains 2020, I transformed my GS2 notes from Evernote to Anki. When I failed prelims, I carried on my habit of using Anki for daily the Hindu. I even prefer to break Vision magazine into anki cards.
Here is an introductory video:
Spaced Repitition and Anki
@DeekshitaP
North-Eastern states can have Tropical Evergreen and Alpine together. It rains a lot in patches and they located at a suitable elevation. Also scrub vegetation by its very nature is scanty. So I guess it's D. I might be wrong though.
P.S: I am horrible in Geography.Galat hi hoga.
Just googled him. If this is what his mom had to say about his oversmartness I wanna know what she said about his haircut 🤣
A very interesting fact about him is that he traced the origin of his philosophical thought back to Upnishads. He studied Gita and Vedas at length. Little did Poor Ms Johanna knew that this guy would lay the building blocks for existentialist.
Wow!
To be fair I'm sure many people would find existentialists annoying so she may not be wrong xD
Yepp. They often get misunderstood for saying nothing matters. Not that I understand them properly myself, but I find them more interesting than say a higher logos and an imaginary ideal Form.
He also bases the idea that all of life is unhappiness from the Buddhist concept of dukkha
That's new info for me. But I am not surprised. In his early days, Buddha practicedSamkhya,which places itself in the infallibility of Vedas. So a lot of philosophical thought is common to both.
Views?
To me, it seems punishing someone retrospectively and needlessly. It's not necessary that he is the same person he 9 years backs. It is as if we deny human agency and the capability of a person to grow. The decision would have made more sense, had he been removed for any of his recent comments or actions.
The same thing happened with James Gunn. Also, there was a loud movement to remove Dan Harmon, writer of Rick and Morty.
@walterwhit3 What about the #MeToo movement?? They can also give the same logic that I am a changed person now...
I have been asking this question myself. Some of the cases in #Metoo were as old as 11 or 15 years. I particularly remember a US case where a judge was accused of sexual harassment that dated back 30 years. The judge was convicted in this case, based on the testimony of the victim.
However, the conundrum here is sexual harassment is a criminal offense. The perpetrator should be put to justice, whenever possible. But that happened after a proper trial. It was a legal procedure.
The problem with social media trial, the case in point, is pretty different. Was he given a chance to clarify his position or straightaway removed? I am not sure about this. Remember the Munavvar Faruiqi case? SC gave him bail after finding no evidence, even though social media has hailed him as a serial offender.
I can't decide the validity of action being taken here but there is surely a need for due process, rather than random decisions. That's about that.
Does anyone have a book or pdf on Great Indian Personalities? Any collection?
P.S: Not asking for any coaching reference material.
There is a book by Ramchandra Guha called "Makers of modern India ". Its a good read. But it has only historical personalities of freedom struggle.
Don't know if that will intrest you.Baki random pdfs can be found anywhere.
If you have it in pdf or any ebook format, can you please send it to me.
Link for the pdf - Modern India political thought
Shurkriya. Meherbaani. Karam.
:D
Also, the guy wrote an entire book "On Women" to try to paint them as inferior, all because he couldn't get laid.
Or maybe it was his mom which led to this? Nah, too Freudian, perhaps.
On the contrary, he got laid with multiple women. Got infamous as a philanderer.
Even with that haircut. :D
It's just he never settled down and got married. And yes he was a misogynist.
Perhaps Freudian after all.
Whoever said those horrible quotes about neighbors needs to be prosecuted.
The Patoots of MemeLand are awesome.
XD
@Villanelle Some castes have actually normalised things to this level.Jat ko itna peeta sushil ne,non jat ke sath kya kart hoga?
Wait, I don't understand the caste angle here.Jaat ko itna peeta ki mar gaya, right?Non jaat ke saath isse worse kya ho sakta tha? Maybe cannibalism?
Like his thought process would be:
Tu Jaat hai, mai bhi jaat hu to bass murder pe ruk jaata hu.
Jaat ni hotatohwould have turnedme into Hannibal and you into Paul Krandler. And then eaten your brains whileyou are alive?
Why can't a murder remain a murder?
@walterwhit3 Murder karne ka aim nahi tha sushil ka.
The things you are saying, with so much conviction, makes me wanting to be beware of you! (Just Kidding :D)
It just reminds me a quote from Eichmann in Jeruselem:
The scariest thing is evil doesn't come with taking delight in its acts but the normality of them.
@DHARNA Roz frustration ke pyale se ek ghoont
Shikanji, Rooh Aafja, Rasna, Tang. And of course ORS.
@walterwhit3 no space for hydrohomies?
Its an Open Bar. And very accomodating 😅
@DHARNA Roz frustration ke pyale se ek ghoont
Shikanji, Rooh Aafja, Rasna, Tang. And of course ORS.
Aur coffeee? Cappuccino wale kahan hain! ✊🏻
Arre yaar maine socha budget is below 10 ruppaiyya!!
:(
@DHARNA I don't think people in our generation takes alcohol as a moral hazard.
Neither did Rig Vedic Folks:D
Descendants of Soma drinkers for a reason :p
Has anyone taken Kindle Unlimited? Could you please highlight prons and cons of taking the subscription?
( I have a Kindle. I'm also an Amazon Prime member. I've been using Prime reading so far but options are pretty limited there.)
Absolute garbage. An abomination. Most of the books available are either cheap romance by debutant writers or classics that are anyway available on the internet.
On the other hand, I get most of the books I need on Torrents. I know, I know!
But then books are costly and yet necessary.
:D
Has anyone taken Kindle Unlimited? Could you please highlight prons and cons of taking the subscription?
( I have a Kindle. I'm also an Amazon Prime member. I've been using Prime reading so far but options are pretty limited there.)
Absolute garbage. An abomination. Most of the books available are either cheap romance by debutant writers or classics that are anyway available on the internet.
On the other hand, I get most of the books I need on Torrents. I know, I know!But then books are costly and yet necessary.
:D
How do you use Torrents for books? Please enlighten.
Just search the book you want with the exact name. You are likely to find Epub or Mobi format. Sometimes even PDF. The one with the highest amount of seed and leach is usually your preferred target.
Rest you can convert the format to kindle usingthis.
Hope it helps.
Which book do you want bdw?
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