Contributed by ForumIAS community member
Board: Smita Nagraj Madam
Background: Mechanical Engineer
Optional: Geography
Home State: Maharashtra
Hobbies: Poems & Shayari
Chairman
- Akshay, you are working as a tutor at Unique Institute. What it is?
- You have completed mechanical engineering and having a work experience with MNC.Don’t u feel it’s something different than expected?
- Which subject you teach?
- When did you study Geography?
Member 1
- Have u read some standard books?
- There is a thing like a shortcut to crack an examination. What are those tricks in Geography you believe?
- As a geographer which problem can b solved with geographical knowledge?
- How to ensure the development of tribals?
- Arnt we taking effective measures?
Member 2
- You are geographer,so do you know what our former PM Nehru had said to laid down development policy for tribals?
- What are the problems of the tribals?
- what should we do then?
- How to involve a tribe in the developmental scheme?
- Do you know ethnobotany?
- What it is? can it b use for tribal development?
- Up to which standard we should give them education in the native language?
Member 3
- How soil is affected by vegetation?
- You mentioned Carbon in the soil. How much is the carbon percentage in soil?
- Is carbon present inside the soil or not
- What do you think, the impact of Climate change on India particularly forest and soil?
- Soil erosion is there but what about the dry regions?
- What will be the impact on The Himalayas?
- What is Hotspot?
- Why they are known as hotspots?
- Which are hotspots in India?
- Tell me the regions most affected by the CC
Member 4
- Akshay, are you from Jalna?
- Have you heard about Lonar Lake? Where is it?
- What is the geological significance of it?
- You are a native of Marathwada. Have you heard about Razakars?
- Who were they? what they did? and how Marathwada got freedom?
- Was Marathwada a part of a Nizam ruler?
- So when it got freedom? Exact date
- What was then with the Marathwada between 1948 to 1960 when Maharashtra formed?
- You mentioned poems and Shayari as hobbies. What is the origin of the word Shayari? (language)
- What do you mean by Shayari?
- What is Shayari?
- Difference between Shayari and ghazal
Chairman
- So Akshay have you mentioned Shayari just as it sounds good as it is mainly related with Urdu poetry?
- So again back to tribals
- Do you know the language of few tribals? How to preserve them?
- Do you know of any project to preserve and conserve languages?
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