Aspirations

I will be sharing the important links that i come across relating to GS and more specifically relating to my optionals Economics and Anthropology .Hope this helps.Following are some links relevant for anthropology! http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/most-complete-pre-human-skeleton-discovered-scientists-377732.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18825901 http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/tribals-have-right-to-live-near-wildlife-sanctuaries-supreme-court/articleshow/15594130.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mother-of-Sanskrit-and-related-languages-was-spoken-by-Turkish-farmers-says-new-study/articleshow/15633438.cms

She was a little girl from a small city. She was  small in size but had big dreams in her eyes…..She was introvert and happy in her own sweet world. Her life oscillated between the school and the home. For her   this  was the meaning of LIFE and she was pretty happy with small yet beautiful things in it..be it discussing about a fellow classmate, sharing tiffin and at times chocolates…for her the teachers of school were the ideal…to whom she looked upto …..However, whenever she heard about big cities like New Delhi, London et al  …she was drifted in her own world of beliefs…in spite of the fact that she had been to some of these cities ..but her perception was very different…she would paint her own beautiful picture about the same…Tall high rise buildings, heavy traffic and smart people. She saw her city as opposed to this a very small, serene place where you could enjoy true niceties of life. As a little girl she could not understand the” paradox of cities “...

Rendezvous with the “Gateway to the Northeast” The curious side of me very often makes  me excited to explore an idea called INDIA much more …to witness the beauty of the country being unleashed before your eyes..Northeast of India has been one part of this subcontinent which I always wanted to explore. Last weekend , I got an opportunity to explore and visit Assam(the gateway to the Northeast) and Meghalaya.  As a kid I remember seeing the map of the country and trying hard to remember the capital city’s of these seven sisters of NE(I must admit though I could cram up all the ancient history books without saying “uff”..but i would never be able to remember the names of capitals of these states and would end up mixing them all!!!) Only capital city name which I could remember nicely out of these 7 states was that of  “Guwahati”…since then I wished to visit the place and after almost decades I indeed visited the city.Before leaving for Assam , I was having a faint id...

Marksheet ROLL NO:006368 NAME:HARSHIKA SINGH CIVIL SERVICES (MAIN) EXAMINATION, 2011 SUBJECTS MARKS ESSAY (PAPER-III) 100 GENRAL STUDIES (PAPER-IV) 144 GENRAL STUDIES (PAPER-V) 132 OPTIONAL-I(ECONOMICS) (PAPER-VI) 133 OPTIONAL-I(ECONOMICS) (PAPER-VII) 213 OPTIONAL-II(ANTHROPOLOGY) (PAPER-VIII) 196 OPTIONAL-II(ANTHROPOLOGY) (PAPER-IX) 175 WRITTEN TOTAL 1093 PERSONALITY TEST 204 FINAL TOTAL 1297 Remarks: Recommended.

WHY CSE AND IAS? For me to be an IAS officer has always been my childhood dream which over a period of time became my only aim and ambition in life. As a kid i was always fascinated by "Red/Yellow light car" and earnestly wished that one day even i would ride  one of them!!! As I grew up ,I started to understand the intricacy and the beauty of the civil service and this made me passionate about the service. There were a couple of incidences which further motivated me for the same: When i was in high school , we were taken to visit a village in Jharkhand . It was one of the first instances when i came in touch with rural world around us. I was taken aback when i met a young girl of around 14-15 years old and she was already a mother of two. I realized that people there and especially the women were not aware about the schemes for them...lack of education was omnipresent and so much of ignorance propelled me to appreciate the nuances and challenges of the service and ho...

Strategy for General Studies General Studies is a very important paper in CSE both in Prelims and Mains. With the changing pattern of the CSE especially in the last 1-2 years , it becomes imperative for each aspirant to be very much updated with the current happenings and news apart from the conventional portion. GS can broadly be divided into two parts-Conventional portion(like History,geography, polity) and Current affairs. For Prelims, GS preparation needs to be widely extensive(i.e. one needs to know something about everything) and for Mains –GS preparation needs to be Intensive as well as understood well ( and also supported by analysis) . For GS I took study materials from Smart Foundation,Guwahati , Vision IAS ,delhi,Vajiram and Ravi(Mains course materials) and Brilliant Tutorials(for my first attempt) .This helped me to bit more systematize my preparation plan. The Comprehensive list of books/journals/newspapers and magazines that I followed for the same: CSAT (...

Strategy for Economics Why Economics? My Background in Economics and the  interest in the subject  was the most obvious reason for Economics as my first optional. I am B.A Economics(Hons) from St.Xavier’s College ,Ranchi (Jharkhand) and MSc.Economic History from London School Of Economics and Political Science,London,UK . The Comprehensive list of the books that I followed was For both my optionals ,I emphasized on making my concepts very clear and re-read the textbooks.I read all the books enumerated below-different books cater to different portions of the syllabus so I have en umerate d all of them… For Paper 1 Microeconomics Ahuja and Koutsyansis Macroeconomics Ahuja Mankiw International Economics Salvatore basically and for some random parts M.C Vaish Public finance Lekhi Dalton H.L Bhatia Money and banking- S.B Gupta Ahuja RBI website For Growth and Deve...