Fab50 – Fifty books on Contemporary India Compiled by Umesh N S K (IAS) Dear reader, Since you have reached till the first line, I assume that you are a “serious” civil services aspirant. In these times of information overload , every aspirant reads the same editorials in the same newspapers, practises the same …
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. ‘Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off… And start all over again’ – Frank Sinatra That’s what I told myself when I applied for a year of extraordinary leave from my hectic training schedule of the Indian Revenue Service at the National Academy of Customs, Excise & Narcotics. ‘They don’t call the period …
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Download for below link the Economic Survey – 2013-14 ECONOMIC SURVEY – 2013-2014 (PDF FILES) The State of the Economy Issues and Priorities Public Finance Prices and Monetary Management Financial Intermediation Balance of Payments International Trade Agriculture and Food Management Industrial Performance Services Sector Energy, Infrastructure and Communications Sustainable Development and Climate Change Human Development …
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Saurabh Goyal Feeling of loss is no alien to human nature; indeed it abounds in our modern age marked by pace and aspiration. But seldom does it happen that a book leaves you in that feeling, like a loss of a long friend. A book is essentially a monologue and at most exposes one to …
~Amrita Sabat Buy From Flipkart: Rs 93/- ‘What Young India Wants’ is the first attempt by the best selling author of ‘cool’ racy novels like 5 Point Someone, 2 States, 3 Mistakes of My Life and so on to write non-fiction on the harsh challenges facing India. Through this book of 181 pages only, he …
Surendra Kumar Das Human In Khaki On Flipkart Book: Human in Khaki Author: Ashok Kumar, IPS Book review by: Surendra Kumar Das INTRODUCTION “Human in khakhi” is a book written by an IPS officer who joins the force with sole moto to serve the country. Writer belongs to a small village in …
If you wanted to buy an Amazon Kindle reader, now is the time. They have slashed prices and it’s only for two days. Why are we recommending it? These days you get Kindle version of UPSC standard texts and you can read them on the go anytime anywhere. Moreover, we get commission if you buy …
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Amrita Sabat The Honest Always Stand Alone Distinguished IAS Officer of 1953 batch, CG Somiah, who retired as CAG of India in 1996, has penned his autobiography in the form of the book ‘The Honest Always Stand Alone’. The title reveals a lot and matches my personal take in life too. That is why …
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By Amrita Sabat THE WHITE TIGER – Aravind Adiga Flipkart Aravind Adiga won the Booker Prize in 2008 for writing the book ‘The White Tiger‘. I was always curious to know what was in it, and how this first-time fiction won the prestigious award. Once I started reading the book, I discovered it was un-putdownable! …
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Amrita Sabat Being Indian – Pavan K Verma Flipkart Amazon We are Indian. Still, have we ever tried to analyze those fundamental traits which make us so? Those compelling characteristics of our society and life as Indians, which refuse to leave us even in the farthest foreign lands? Pavan K.Varma, a seasoned Indian diplomat, gives an …
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Dr. Naveen Lohar A MANUAL OF ETHICS BY JADUNATH SINHA Available on Amazon India I have written this year mains, many of my friends asked me about the books which I followed for GS Paper-4. Here I would write about the usefulness of this book for covering the GS Paper-4 syllabus. I found this …
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(This is the first article under our New Initiative launched yesterday. We are happy that aspirants are responding. Congrats to Prasoon for being the first person to send us his review of a book. We hope others get inspiration and start sending us their articles) Reviewed By – Prasoon Kaushik Does The Elephant Dance –Contemporary …
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This one is for the candidates who wrote Mains this year (2013). There is a writer in everyone. Some people write and some do not. It is widely accepted that, to write one should have vast experience with life or one should have read a lot. UPSC aspirants read a lot, especially the serious ones …
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There is no shortcut to increasing reading speed and comprehension. The only time tested solution is to read as much as possible every day, may it be a book, magazine or newspaper. But some prefer to read slowly to enjoy the book or a magazine. An IAS aspirant can’t afford to do that. As competition …
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Flipkart is offering 50-60% discount on History and Politics books. And flat upto 60% discount on Biographies and Autobiographies. Many UPSC books (History and Polity) are now available at very cheap price. Click on the banners below to buy the books. History and Polity Books. Biographies and Autobiographies Box Sets And there is no separate …
List of Reference Books For Prelims and Mains Ever since UPSC announced new pattern and syllabus for civil services Main examination, there has been a deluge of books in the market on the subject. Instead of making lives of aspirants easier, they have only made life tougher for clueless aspirants. Fortunately, Pathfinder, a small …
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Our most powerful 21st-century technologies – robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech – are threatening to make humans an endangered species. By Bill Joy From the moment I became involved in the creation of new technologies, their ethical dimensions have concerned me, but it was only in the autumn of 1998 that I became anxiously …
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Choosing a right Optional subject is a crucial step in your preparation for the UPSC civil services exam. A wrong decision not only costs you a rank but also leaves in you a sense of regret for the rest of your life. In the new pattern for Mains, you can opt for only one Optional subject …
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Long awaited books on General Studies Paper V (Ethics, Aptitude and Integrity) are now available on Flipkart. There were books on the subject but they were not syllabus specific. Now two books are of particular interest: I. Ethics In Governance – Ramesh Arora This book has many syllabus related chapters. 1. Introduction: Multi-Dimensionality of Ethical …
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