PSIR - Strategy, resources & discussion
Hi peeps. Let’s do this!
1. Previous papers from 2009 (both papers are in the same PDF):here2. Topic-wise PYQs: here
3. Look for PDFs of books here: b-ok.cc, http://libgen.rs/, archive.org
4. Model answers from SR:here
5. OnlyIAS notes, if you need extra matter for a few topics:here
6. SR notes, typed:politicsforindia.com
This is a western worldview wrt India and we have embraced it like many of other their views for us had been accepted either readily or reluctantly. for example The land of serpent.Apart from what other said about qualities of elephants which is more or less similar to India like its huge size, its nature of calm & compose until one poke their nose, non aggressive in nature, (India can also be depicted as Royal Bengal Tiger or Lion but it didn't either by west or even by us( our leaders/worldview from Nehru to S. Jaishankar have never tried to imitate the notion of Western POWER or try to somewhat project India as a non aggressive power).I would like delve into another aspect - regarding why India is often compared with elephant. A historical view. The first historical encounter of West (Greek world) with us was happened during the time of Alexander and his army for the very first time met with an army which employed a very new kind of war machine i.e; Elephant. This was their first experience of use of elephants in battle field.
Yes friend, considerably true. Lion is another graceful animal that is seemingly wrongly placed in India :D
Couple of months back, S Jaishankar was asked who, in his opinion, were the two greatest leaders India ever had. Answering one of’course is easy. Natural choice is Gandhi, but if two are asked, a realist personality like Kautilya, in my opinion would have looked appealing. But he said Lord Buddha. May be intention was to capitalise the legacy of Buddhism.
Going by the logic, if some day, who is the greatest animal is asked, answering it would not be difficult :D
Conquer,Yes friend, considerably true. Lion is another graceful animal that is seemingly wrongly placed in India :D
Couple of months back, S Jaishankar was asked who, in his opinion, were the two greatest leaders India ever had. Answering one of’course is easy. Natural choice is Gandhi, but if two are asked, a realist personality like Kautilya, in my opinion would have looked appealing. But he said Lord Buddha. May be intention was to capitalise the legacy of Buddhism.
Going by the logic, if some day, who is the greatest animal is asked, answering it would not be difficult :D
Kautilya was never the leader btw. He was always the Amit Shah.
Lion is America out and out. An elite and hegemon, whose command everyone follows.
Ohh you are unaware what a realist Buddhist were. Buddhism denotes expansion. Culture as well as territorial. In Sanatan Dharam only Buddhism and Jainism (till some extent) follows expansionism.
PS : yeh info Kahan milti hai jaishankar ne kya kaha ? 🤔🤔🤔
Jai Shree Ram !
Jammu,
Found this in Amartya Sen's essay Equality of What? - "While Rawlsian equality has the characteristic of being both culture-dependent and fetishist, basic capability equality avoids fetishism, but remains culture-dependent"
Can someone shed some light on how Rawls' Theory of Justice is culture-dependent?
Jammu,This is a western worldview wrt India and we have embraced it like many of other their views for us had been accepted either readily or reluctantly. for example The land of serpent.Apart from what other said about qualities of elephants which is more or less similar to India like its huge size, its nature of calm & compose until one poke their nose, non aggressive in nature, (India can also be depicted as Royal Bengal Tiger or Lion but it didn't either by west or even by us( our leaders/worldview from Nehru to S. Jaishankar have never tried to imitate the notion of Western POWER or try to somewhat project India as a non aggressive power).I would like delve into another aspect - regarding why India is often compared with elephant. A historical view. The first historical encounter of West (Greek world) with us was happened during the time of Alexander and his army for the very first time met with an army which employed a very new kind of war machine i.e; Elephant. This was their first experience of use of elephants in battle field.
Yes friend, considerably true. Lion is another graceful animal that is seemingly wrongly placed in India :D
Couple of months back, S Jaishankar was asked who, in his opinion, were the two greatest leaders India ever had. Answering one of’course is easy. Natural choice is Gandhi, but if two are asked, a realist personality like Kautilya, in my opinion would have looked appealing. But he said Lord Buddha. May be intention was to capitalise the legacy of Buddhism.
Going by the logic, if some day, who is the greatest animal is asked, answering it would not be difficult :D
Correction - Two greatest Indians were asked. Not Indian Leaders. Just checked.
Conquer,nerdfighterYes friend, considerably true. Lion is another graceful animal that is seemingly wrongly placed in India :D
Couple of months back, S Jaishankar was asked who, in his opinion, were the two greatest leaders India ever had. Answering one of’course is easy. Natural choice is Gandhi, but if two are asked, a realist personality like Kautilya, in my opinion would have looked appealing. But he said Lord Buddha. May be intention was to capitalise the legacy of Buddhism.
Going by the logic, if some day, who is the greatest animal is asked, answering it would not be difficult :D
Kautilya was never the leader btw. He was always the Amit Shah.
Lion is America out and out. An elite and hegemon, whose command everyone follows.
Ohh you are unaware what a realist Buddhist were. Buddhism denotes expansion. Culture as well as territorial. In Sanatan Dharam only Buddhism and Jainism (till some extent) follows expansionism.
PS : yeh info Kahan milti hai jaishankar ne kya kaha ? 🤔🤔🤔
This is great. I have never seen Buddhism this way.
I follow him on Twitter. His Twitter is like 90% ‘Birthday wishes Diplomacy’ :D
I’ve subscribed to MEA Youtube Channel as well. But I dont recommend them from PSIR’s point of view. ROI is poor.
Also, this news got a big controversy because Nepalese PM said Lord Buddha was Nepalese, not Indian :’)
babu_bisleri,nerdfighterIs there a difference between "procedural equality" and "equality of opportunity"?Context- I think they're the same but SR's assignment on Equality has different questions on the two - "What is PE?", "What is EoO?"- so I thought I'd ask just to be sure.
I also feel they are similar, but yes I feel Socialists would use the term Procedural Equality, and Liberals would use Equality of Opportunity.
Just like difference between freedom and liberty.
KropotkinSchmopotkin,nerdfighternerdfighter,
@Rewl1 I don't think you properly read/understood@Villanelle 's response. They wrote "I don’t think limiting arbitrary power of the State is an argument against Capitalism to be honest, if anything, it’s a case for it. Because individualism, and keeping self prior to the whole, putting limits on the State are again features of Capitalism."Focus on individual liberty is itself a bourgeois shibboleth. Locke absolutely IS focused on this. It's just that individual liberty (as understood in liberal discourse) is not contradictory to capitalism.
Got it
nerdfighter,@whatonly @Villanelle @Jammu SR notes say that Dworkin's auction is "endowment sensitive", while Dworkin himself writes that auction must NOT be endowment sensitive. Both mean the same thing which is made clear in the explanation. Should we stick with SR's terminology over the Original Text, or should we favour the original text and risk offending the PSIR gods?
nerdfighter,@whatonly @Villanelle @Jammu SR notes say that Dworkin's auction is "endowment sensitive", while Dworkin himself writes that auction must NOT be endowment sensitive. Both mean the same thing which is made clear in the explanation. Should we stick with SR's terminology over the Original Text, or should we favour the original text and risk offending the PSIR gods?
Great catch! Thanks for the tip. I think we should stick with “endowment insensitive” from the original text. The real PSIR gods are the examiners - they’re more likely to have read scholarly works than SR notes :)
@whatonly @Villanelle @Jammu SR notes say that Dworkin's auction is "endowment sensitive", while Dworkin himself writes that auction must NOT be endowment sensitive. Both mean the same thing which is made clear in the explanation. Should we stick with SR's terminology over the Original Text, or should we favour the original text and risk offending the PSIR gods?
Great catch! Thanks for the tip. I think we should stick with “endowment insensitive” from the original text. The real PSIR gods are the examiners - they’re more likely to have read scholarly works than SR notes :)
While we're at it, ambition and endowment sensitivity are not attributes he uses for for auctions but for distributions. You won't find the term "ambition sensitive auction" anywhere except in UPSC coaching material (either SR or SR-derived)
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