The week that was is a new series of posts that I have been planning to write from a long time, was busy with mains and after realizing many things in the exam hall I came up with this series. This time it’s little more than week.
This series of posts will be linking and providing all important and major sources for UPSC preparation and also for other competitive exams like SSC, IBPS, etc.
Posts will contain Links from newspapers, other sites, Magazines, Spotlight News analysis, videos, PIB and any other sources that will help in preparation. The selection will be completely based on discretion. This is like a guiding light to help you in your preparation.
As said else where we are a group still in preparation so unlike other popular sites we cannot focus our energies on writing articles, but anyone interested can write. The sole purpose being helping other aspirants to the best of our abilities.
Not everyone is able to afford coaching or time, so to save time and money we are running this site, we will try to help through this post and this step in that direction .If you have any suggestions, feedback or interested in helping please drop a line to kalyan@iksa.in
Also you can follow us on our Facebook Page for daily selected newspaper articles list. (We do hope to post daily)
News Papers
I did not collect in an orderly fashion so for this week please adjust with my randomness mostly focused on opinion pages of Indian express and Hindu.
- When the second rate sets the standards
- Lima, a new low for climate action
- ‘Coral bleaching in Pacific may become worst die-off in 20 years’
- Conversion and freedom of religion
- Strengthening accountability
- Sony’s ominous lesson
- Small enterprises as big businesses
- A passionate yogi of the world
- Carnage in Assam
- Focus on policies, not events
- Honouring complex legacies
- Rebels without a cause
- A template for teacher education
- Fifty shades of saffron
- Justice in slow motion
- A law that failed to keep pace with time
- Revitalising the Railways
- When the sea came home
- Making ‘Make in India’ happen
- A year of man-made health crises
- Disquieting developments
- Fencing the farmer out
- India needs to take the lead
- Where armed insurgents roam about freely
- Another tragedy in the skies
- Impropriety of ordinance
- Make in India essentials
- An unclaimed legacy
- With Godse at the center
- Reform by decree
- No fixed identity
- Why OPEC deserves a holiday card from India
- A darker shade of green
- The great forgetting
- Epic fail
- The great Game Folio: Ocean Diplomacy
- Choice to the farmer
- Held back by Hindutva
- A modest victory
- After deleting Section 309
- How ‘Mr Clean’ lost his shine
From next volume the articles will be divided syllabus/paper wise.
Magazines
- Staring Down a Precipice
- Not Made in Heaven
- The Nationalism of Pseudo-Science
- What’s behind Peshawar?
- Central Bureau of Investigation: Crisis of Legitimacy, Credibility and Accountability
- Do read Yojana December edition not available online due to hyperactive bureaucracy.
Spotlight News analysis.
The files are downloaded and renamed and available in Google Drive
Bro Sites :
Insights of India is a doing a tremendous job in providing daily questions and also providing the weekly answer compilations.
- Compilation: Insights Secure Q&A – December 2014 – First Week
- Compilation: Insights Secure Q&A – December 2014 – Second Week
- Compilation: Insights Secure Questions and Answers, December Third Week
- For Daily post visit Secure 2015 Due to change in their question posting policy this became little tough to post on weekly basis.
Mrunal
Mrunal bhai has focused on Uploading the question papers and other important links and person in news posts.
- UPSC Mains-2014: Essay Question Paper
- UPSC Mains-2014: Compulsory English language paper
- UPSC Mains-2014: General Studies Paper 1
- UPSC Mains-2014: General Studies Paper 2
- UPSC Mains-2014: General Studies Paper 3
- UPSC Mains-2014: General Studies Paper 4
- Person in news Part 1 Places & Persons in News, Committees, Disasters, Civilian awards
- Person in news Part 2 Books, Authors, Sports & Business GK for Non-UPSC exams
Daily current Affairs
Click on the dates for daily current affair updates. Useful for revision. Read at your own discretion.
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28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
Videos and Misc.
Unfortunately we did not find time to spare on this section, but will try to improve in future posts, as learnt from the Equalizer
Progress not perfection
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Moving on, Hope 2015 brings you lot of happiness and success, Wish you all a very Happy New year friends.