Want to spend my life “undoing” this report

Want to make “India Read” ✊

Made a video on it
(in the tweet below) 🙏 Want to bring Reading to Life ✊

(Find the Books and their Links in tweets below👇)

Sharing a simple to remember acronym for the impact Women’s Reservation can have on Society.

It’s PRESIDI

Quick Details 👇 P R E S I D I stands for:

P - Women Centric POLICIES

R - Representation

E - Empowerment

S - Social Change

I - Impact as Role Models

D - Decision Making

I - Intersectionality

Sharing some simple to make diagrams for UPSC Answer Writing.

Use them well 😊 1. The 3 important stakeholders in deciding a Uniform Civil Code

It’s Sociology’s Mains Exam this weekend.

Over the years, I have made a few frameworks, acronyms and other useful hacks to help retain the content better.

(and even get a top rank in UPSC🤞)

Sharing them here in a thread.

Will keep updating it with newer updates with time

1/ To begin with -

GIRL Formula of Excelling in Optional:

1. Gather Information
2. Internalise
3. Reproducible
4. Light - Avoid Information overload

2/

It’s UPSC Essay Exam tomorrow.

Sharing some ideas to “Make Your Essay SAY”

1/ The most important things first:

1.Never Say More than Necessary

to the Reader

structure is permanent

4.Mould You Raw Material (Content)

5.Keep the tone of the Essay humble and Polite (use of may, might)

2/2.Talk
3.No

UPSC: I’m Speaking Up

1/ Yes, the exam’s tough.

Yes, it’s becoming tougher to pin point what’s important.

Yes, the process needs to be rigorous to choose the finest of the future officers.

And a lot of other Yes’s that point to the direction that UPSC needs to keep its standards high.

But.

2/

Sharing a story that puts professors of Economics to shame.

Imagined by a simple writer of stories.
In a way, professors fail to do.

A mind blowing example of why Rich are Rich and Poor Poor.

The story of Captain Samuel Vimes.

1/ Fantasy writer Terry Pratchett wrote a novel “Men at Arms” in 1993.

In the novel, there was a captain by the name of Sam Vimes.

He says that “poverty causes GREATER EXPENSES to the poor than to those who are richer”.

And is the reason poor stay poor.

He explains further.

2/

An increasing number of students term themselves as underachiever, dissatisfied, failure.

Warren Bennis' very appropriately and captivatingly wrote:
"Structured education and society often get in the way of leadership".

Sharing some crazy good lessons from his book.

1/ Bennis wrote a beautiful book "Leaders".

Harvard till date calls Bennis as the best author on Leadership.

Bennis said “what we need to know gets lost in what we are told we should know.”

"Leaders" written in 1985 forever changed the way we imagine Leaders.

2/

It is fascinating to know about Tandav.

It is fascinating to know about a statue in CERN.

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
The world's largest and most respected centres for scientific research.

1/n It is captivating to know there’s a statue of Natraj in CERN Geneva.

Natraj statues across the world are often shown doing Tandav.

Tandav is a dance.

2/n

Adani Group is not going anywhere.
It’s literally TOO Big at the moment.

Let me tell you HOW BIG:

1/ 1. Adani has Warehouses. They store 30% of India’s Grains.

2/

“Void is the Creator”

And we are all part of this void.

1/17 Nucleus of an atom is 100,000 times smaller than the whole atom, yet it constitutes nearly all of the atom’s physical mass.

Imagine it like this:

What we perceive to be a chair or an apple or a person, while it looks solid, has a structure based mostly on empty space.

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