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I have had the opportunity of giving 'THE UPSC INTERVIEW' twice, one in 2016 and other in 2017. Both the time I had the same board headed by former Air Marshal Ajit Bhonsale.I was awarded pretty good scores both the times, 184 (in 2016) and 187 (in 2017) :)Before I answer what happens in UPSC interview, let me break some myths.MYTHSInterview questions are not like the whatsapp forwards you recieve. Example : How to throw egg from a building without breaking it?Interview is not a system of rejection or acceptance. It is just a part of whole process , your written marks are added in your interview score to determine your rank. So you may have high written score but low interview marks can mar your chances of rank and vice versa.Interview is not a test of your knowledge. Knowledge has already been tested in written examination. Interview is test of your personality and confidence. Obviously questions are asked to test your confidence but if you don't know the answer you can say “I don't know sir/ma'am” confidently instead of bluffing. You have to be truely honest.Some interview boards are dreaded due to myth that they give low marks but I think every board has its range of marks( Bhonsale Sir board is dreaded but he awarded me good marks both the times). It is just that every board chairman has probably different parameters and ways of testing you. For example : Ajit Bhonsale sir will make you really comfortable but sometimes when you become very comfortable you let yourself loose and commit blunders. On other hand B.S. Bassi sir is very strict ( I have heard) , puts in you in spot for the first few minutes. His strategy is maybe to check you during tough times.UPSC interview is not like a roadies audition. All the members of the board are highly cordial.BEFORE UPSC INTERVIEWNight before the interview is really tough. There are butterflies in your stomach. There is soo much going on in your head that sleeping becomes a task.On the day of interview it becomes quite a task for us girls because we have to tie a saree. My mom was with me so she helped me with that but handling the saree gracefully is your task. I want to tell you that I wore the same green colour saree for both my interviews because after my first interview I thought it was lucky for me :)2016 interview2017 interview ( 5 kg lighter!!)Once you signNow UPSC office on Shahjahan road , you are made to stand in a line outside the gate for verification by showing summon letters. For me this moment for the first time was in 2016 and it was really mesmerizing. I was like Aamir Khan ’s character in “3idiots” movie where he couldnt stop smiling because it felt like a dream.After all verification candidates are made to sit in a room for document verification. There are 6 tables with 6 candidates each. All the 6 candidates on one table go to same interview board. After document checking candidates are moved to a central hall. Here we are finally told which board we are assigned.Candidates are called one by one for the interview and headed towards respective members 's rooms. A candidate is called 5 minutes before the previous candidates 's interview is over. So you are made to sit outside the interview room. This is the most unnerving moment. My strategy used to be: to sit and gaze around so that I don't think about the impending interview and calming myself in the process. And finally after few minutes the peon asks you to GO INSIDE!!DURING THE INTERVIEWHere I will narrate my 2017 CSE interview held on 24 th April 2018:I entered the room I wished everyone good afternoon ( it was around 1:30 pm ). I was asked to take seat. The interview board had chairman (Air Marshal Ajit Bhonsale Sir in my case) and 4 other members seated around a table. There was a member seating very close to me and watching my every action, most probably he was psychoanalysist or something like that.So finally the interview started :CHAIRMANChairman : Shilpa sit down. Feel comfortable. Take a deep breath. I see a young and smart lady in front of me who has a very good academic background. Are you nervous?Me: No sir ( I smiled)CHAIRMAN : Ok then we will start with the interview.Which areas you are expecting that we would ask from DAF ( detailed application form , it is like a CV which contains information about you, your qualification, your hobbies etc).Me: Sir about my graduation i.e. BDS , my birthplace Chandigarh and hobbiesChairman : What do you derive from making greeting cards? ( Apart from reading , teaching/ mentoring , I mentioned “making handmade greeting cards” as my hobby in DAF)Me: Sir, it is a form of creative expression for me which gives me immense pleasure.Chairman : Ok shilpa.MEMBER 1M1 : What are your views on death sentence for rape accused in case victim is below 12 years? Accused are generally known to victim in cases of child abuse cases.Me : Sir ,you are right. NCRB records state that in child sexual abuse cases 94% of accused are known to victim. This may lead to non reporting or victim turning hostile due to pressure from family.Secondly, death penalty is not a deterrent. It has been proven from many reports.Thirdly , now rape and murder have same punishment so now the rapist will not leave his victim alive .(M1 : good point Dr. Shilpa)M1 : Have you heard about euthanasia? What is the recent SC judgement.Me: Euthanasia in common terms means mercy killing. It is of two types : active and passive euthanasia. Recently SC has allowed passive euthanasia in case patient is in permanent vegetative state.M1: Who decides it is time for euthanasia?Me: Sir , It consists of three layered mechanism . A mechanism for living will has been given which is accessed by the doctor. If he feels that there is need for go ahead the permission is send to a special medical board which consists of four specialists. After approval it is forwarded to district collector.M1: What is living will?Me: It is a directive by a patient that in due course of his treatment if stops responding to treatment or is in permanent vegetative state he be considered for passive euthanasia.MEMBER 2M2 : Comment on our relations with our neighbours with respect to Bangladesh , Nepal.Me: Sir , Neighbourhood first policy has been major component of our foreign policy.Good relations with Bangladesh for example recently land boundary agreement was signed very amicably. There is just one irritant in form of teesta water treaty.Nepal we have historical and cultural ties. 'BETI AND ROTI' ka rishta. A buffer state. But due to unprecedented foray of China into south asia and Nepal playing China card due to its domestic compulsions , relations have taken toll right now.( I wanted to summarize but M2 said ok shilpa fine)M2 : Chinese president XI Xingping and PM modi will be meeting recently. Where?ME: Sir there will be an informal meeting in City of Wuhan , China. Here wide array of issues will be discussed.M2 : China is saying it will be sharing data on satluj river. What is that?ME: Sir basically hydrological data. Water levels and dams to be constructed.M2: Sociolgists are better administrators. Why? (Sociology is my optional subject)ME: Sir, it is basically study of social groups , social institutions and their dynamics. And as civil servant you are basically dealing with these institutions and groups. For eg : as a sociologist one knows laws decide where society SHOULD GO but Societal norms decide where society actually GOES. It serves a great value as a civil servant.MEMBER 3M3 : Dr. Bhatti you were talking about China right now. How are we same ?How does it poses a danger how India is responding? Can we learn something from China?( it was a long question so I broke it into parts)Me: China and India are same with respect to thriving economies. China is second largest economy in terms of nominal GDP and India is 7th.Both are populous nations with huge human capital potential.Dangers : China 's unprecedented foray into South Asia. Increasing footprint in Indian ocean.Learn from China: China has emerged as workshop of world. Its manufacturing sectors contributes around 34% to its GDP where India its just 17% ( Member said good Dr.Bhatti)MEMBER 4M4 : Social media is turning a place for spreading wrong news and all ( long lecture) . How to address this?Me: Sir in the post truth era social media is turning into menance where fake news are being spread. (M4 interuppts)M4 : You used word post truth. Very interesting word. What is that?Me: Sir it is an era where facts are considered less and beliefs and emotions shape the public opinion.M4 : Very good Shilpa. Continue with your answer. How to address?Me: Sir we can address first at legal level. For eg : EU has .......( M4 interuppts.)M4: Shilpa talk at a more local level. Like you are Chandigarh DC.Me: Sir first we can use social media itself. These days every administration has official twitter , FB accounts. From this we can give correct info n allay fears.Secondly in Chandigarh during Ram Rahim case SMS were sent as precaution. We can use this platformThirdly , involving civil society to create awareness to not accept any news at face value before confirming it from standard source.M4 : Did you choose Medical field by choice ? You are no longer pursuing it?Me: Sir , Civil services was always on my mind but idea wasn't very concrete at that time. I choose medical field because of my love for science and I have always performed good in academics.Also while working as a dentist I realized that civil services gives much larger platform to bring a change plus job diversity it offers is unparallelled.CHAIRMANCHAIRMAN : Tell me where woman bureaucrats or officers in general can be of great help?Me : Sir , in police administration for example if the cutting edge officers or bureaucrats in general are woman we can make our police services more gender sensitive.Chairman : yes ok. Continue.Me: Sir I cant think of other areas right now.(Chairman smiled and said ok)CHAIRMAN : Ok Shilpa tell me one last question before we go for lunch. You have heard about tussle between delhi chief secretary and chief minister?Me: yes sir.CHAIRMAN : So now bureaucrats blame its ministers who hamper work and politician blame bureaucrats. What to do?Me: Sir the permanent executive and the elected executive has work in tandem.CHAIRMAN : Yes tell me solution?Me: Following SOP and due process of law.Secondly, Sir transperant administration. Egovernance to cut down bureaucratic red tapism and also ensuring the executive is pro active in various people centric schemes or policies.Thirdly , we can have informal meetings in form of ‘chintin shivirs' or organising sports events for breaking the ice and acting as confidence building measures.CHAIRMAN : Ok Shilpa your interview is over. So now you will go back to Chandigarh or stay back.Me: Sir I will stay back for medical and leave on 26th.Chairman : Ok. Thank you Shilpa.Me: Thank you Sir. ( I thanked other member too)Interview lasted around 25 minutes. Members were extremely cordial and I had a feeling that it went well.And I got a good score of 187 :) I was able to secure 712 rank UPSC CSE 2017 and currently Iam preparing for rank improvement :)I hope this answer conveyed what happens in UPSC interview :)

Do we log our time in space in an airplane style logbook?  Nope... not really, but our time in space is "logged" by the good folks on the ground.  When I returned to Earth following my stint as Flight Engineer on board the International Space Station (ISS), my lead Flight Director, Robert Dempsey (aka "Dr. Astronomy") was ready to provide me with my on-orbit duration.  He casually told me I had been in space 151 days, 18 hours, 23 minutes and 14 seconds.  Among friends we round up --astronauts like higher numbers-- to 152 days.  He did point out that he gave me credit for the time it took the shuttle Atlantis to signNow the unofficial "astronaut international" altitude limit of 100 km or 62.1 nautical miles --measured from the sea level anchor of Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A, to the imaginary threshold at our atmosphere's edge.  I am assuming this is "standard practice" when NASA determines astronaut in-space flight times.While flying the T-38, many of the instructor pilots (IPs) would offer to sign our civilian general aviation log books (for those of us who had our flight certificates) allowing us to document our NASA-modified Air Force trainer flight time for future reference.  I never took them up on it and I'm not sure how the hours were logged by my military astronaut colleagues.  It seemed too difficult a process with regard to filling out Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) paperwork in hopes (no guarantees) of receiving actual credit for the flight hours.  I assume though, that some of my colleagues did?  Some of my Penguin classmates were CFII's (Certified Flight Instructors/Instrument rated) and perhaps those hours helped them to future flying goals.I received a print-out from the meticulous, and now-retired Mavis Ilkenhans (she tracked all of this data electronically) when I retired in January 2013, that showed: Simulator Hours:  6.60 (T-38)Actual Instrument Hours:  828.60 (T-38 and GA)Simulated Instrument Hours:  7.70 (T-38)Night Hours:  741.90  (All)Total Flight Hours:  1,469.00These hours included my time as a mission specialist/co-pilot in the KSC 135 (zero-g airplane), the Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA), the space shuttle Orbiters (Atlantis and Discovery), the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), and first-pilot time in three general aviation aircraft (Cessna 172/150, Piper Archer-28).  I also got credit for 0.1 hours of first pilot time in the T-38 when I was allowed to perform a touch and go from the backseat... awesome! I would end up logging about 167 days in outer space, grateful for two forays above our atmosphere, and nearly 40 hours of spacewalking time spread over 6 EVAs (spacewalks).  Those numbers work just fine for me... they're easy to remember and they make me very proud!Keep lookin' up!

Ah, yes, the perpetrators of the deadly Bowling Green Massacre. How many people died at that tragic event? Ugh. It’s uncountable. You can donate to the Bowling Green Massacre Fund here. Please do; the survivors need your support.Anyway, it turned out that some Iraqi refugees weren’t exactly innocent when they were in Iraq (they didn’t actually commit any crimes in the US). They had fought on the side of the insurgency. When Obama’s administration found out, it tightened vetting procedures for Iraqi refugees. This meant that it took longer for them to be cleared to come into the US, but once they *were* cleared, they were cleared. Nobody’s brown mother or baby was locked in a holding cell.Trump’s little pen diarrhea of an order was meant to detain US permanent residents and prevent them from getting into the country, as well as handcuff 5-year-old girls and tear apart families. It wasn’t a reaction to some actionable event. People who already were safe to come into the US, including people who had been living here for many years and have homes and have been paying taxes here, were suddenly forced into holding cells or deported, not because they committed crimes but because Señor Trumpo felt like people weren’t paying enough attention to him that minute.Now, if there were a real security risk from those seven countries (but not from, say, Saudi Arabia, which is where the 9/11 terrorists were from), then a reasonable thing to do would have been to take a stricter approach to issuing new visas from those countries. Would I do that? No, I think it’s a bad idea. But I don’t have America’s intelligence services giving me briefings, so who knows, maybe it’s necessary. But that’s not what Mr. Insecure did. He purposefully destroyed the lives and families of thousands of people by revoking their current permission to enter the US. The US said, “welcome, you are invited to our beautiful country”, and when they showed up, Trump said, “ha ha ha, go fuck yourself, I hope your 4-month-old daughter didn’t need a life-saving heart operation! Oh, she did? Ha ha ha, your little terror baby’s gonna die then! Ha ha ha! Treasure your time together in this holding cell without access to lawyers, idiot brown person! Ha ha! Sad!”I mean, he probably didn’t say that literally (since it’s more than 140 characters). But he certainly doesn’t care about the people whose lives he tore apart, the students who can’t start their spring semesters, the families who can’t be together. *His* family is fine. Who cares about yours? Or anybody else’s?Meanwhile, Obama’s Iraqi refugee slowdown didn’t actually do this to anybody, because Obama’s not actually a complete idiot.

I will try to answer the second part of the question (how life in IFS is different from that in IAS). In doing so, I hope to cover some aspects of the first part of the question.The differences are:(i) An IAS officer rises to the most exciting, fulfilling and satisfying part of his/her career within 5 to 8 years of his/her service. This phase is when he/she is Collector/DM. An IFS officer rises to this phase in his/her career after 12 to 18 years. This is when an IFS officer becomes Consul General or Ambassador. But the IFS officer has an edge over his/her IAS counterpart in this aspect since this phase lasts for 17–25 years in case of IFS, while it is about 6–8 years in case of IAS.(ii) An IAS officer spends most of his/her life dealing with grassroots level. An IFS deals with leading members of the society, whether it is Indian delegations visiting foreign countries or citizens of the country where the IFS officer is based.Within 4 months of my first posting abroad, I was involved in the first State Visit of former PM of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee to Russia. As a young Second Secretary, I handled all agreements signed during former PM Vajpayee’s second visit to Russia.Below is a photo of the signing ceremony in Kremlin, Moscow. Former PM Vajpayee and President Putin are in the centre. On their sides are former EAM Yashwant Sinha and former FM of Russia, Igor Ivanov. I am standing next to former EAM.(iii) An IAS officer deals with day-to-day administration and his day is spent dealing with files and matters related to daily life of people. From day one, an IFS officer prepares reports that help shape the foreign policy of India. As a young Under Secretary/Deputy Secretary while posted in the Ministry of External Affairs, I used to prepare the first draft of all speeches and other official documents for President/PM/EAM level visits and meetings.(iv) Unlike his/her IAS counterpart, an IFS officer spends his/her entire life in Capital cities. Whether in developed or in developing world, the best facilities of the country are in the Capital. Hence, the quality of life is better, whether it is housing or children’s education.(v) An IFS officer gets Foreign Allowance when posted abroad. Foreign Allowances, while not comparable to remuneration in the private sector, are much higher than allowances at home. An IFS officer also has other perks and benefits while posted abroad, which are not available to home-based civil servants, including the IAS.

This theory revolves around this person. There are two of them.The First TheoryThe first one is that Ibu Tien was killed due to a stray bullet fired by her sons, Bambang and Tommy. The story goes like, Bambang and Tommy were quarelling on the national car project (MOBNAS). The car project was given to Tommy, instead of Bambang. Bambang disagreed with this because he wanted a share of the project. He was given none. Emotions peaked until Bambang pulled out a automatic pistol that he always kept. At the same Tommy pulled out one and the two fired shots while chasing around the house. Tien tried to stop them, but was shot in the heart while approaching Bambang; the shot was meant to be fired to Tommy.According to the narrative, a CPM member who was guarding Suharto’s house in Jl. Cendana heard the shot and tried find out what happened. Because he witnessed the event, he was was shot and killed as not to tell anyone. The CPM’s family got 500 million Rupiah as a “hush money”.This theory has been debunked, but people still don’t believe official explanation.The Second TheoryTien had a “wahyu”, which means grace. The wahyu was meant to bring an aura of good luck, feel good, success, and a positive feeling. People always tell how successful Suharto with Tien. Because of the so-called “wahyu”, there were no such upheavals in society. Then, when the wahyu died in 1996, things started to unravel. 27 July riot. Anti-Chinese riot. Banjarmasin riot. Financial crisis. This culminated in deadly May riots which killed over 1,000 people in 1998, and Suharto’s resignation.Source: Misteri Kematian Ibu Tien Soeharto, Benarkah Beliau Tertembak