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12 Jun 2024 12:01

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✅Temples of Lord Ram

🅾️Kalaram Temple, Maharashtra- Maharashtra's Nashik

🅾️Veerabhadra Temple, Andhra Pradesh-Lepakshi, renowned for its connection to the epic tale of Ramayana, is believed to be the site where Jatayu, the giant eagle

🅾️Guruvayur Temple and Thriprayar Shree Ramaswami Temple, Kerala- also note that - Lord Krishna temple in Guruvayur, nestled in the heart of Thrissur district.

🅾️Ranganathaswamy Temple, Tamil Nadu

🅾️PM Modi visited the Sri Kothandaramaswamy temple, which is on the way towards Dhanushkodi and Arichal Munai.

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03 May 2024 10:00

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06 Mar 2024 06:16

✅Gs1: Geography- Industries- Tea industry

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🅾️This new issue- History of tea

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21 Feb 2024 05:18

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✅Facts About the history of Martial Arts in India


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10 Feb 2024 16:15

What next for VK IAS? - crisis as an opportunity and the journey behind VK IAS.
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09 Feb 2024 10:53

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07 Feb 2024 19:47

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14 Jan 2024 08:52

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✅Nashik’s Kalaram Temple

🅾️Context : PM modi visited this temple

🅾️Cultural significance : part of the Ramayana’s Panchavati area where Lord Ram resided in exile

🅾️ Dr. B.R. Ambedkar also led a temple entry movement for Dalits here along with Sane Guruji (Pandurang Sadashiv Sane)

🅾️This area earned its name from five auspicious banyan trees present during Ram’s stint described in the Ramayana epic.

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09 Jan 2024 07:33

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✅Odisha GI tags- Focus on how they can help tribal population's livelihood

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24 Dec 2023 06:41

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✅Dunki - History of passport and the donkey journey route

🅾️What?- A dangerous immigration route taken by several lakhs of Indians to reach countries like the US, the UK or Europe.

📍Route :

⚜️Migrants first travel to a Latin American country, often via visa on arrival or easily obtained tourist visas.

⚜️Trafficking networks in these countries facilitate further illegal migration.From Colombia, migrants face the Darién Gap, known for its hazards including wildlife and criminal gangs.

⚜️An alternate route involves travel from San Andrés to Fisherman’s Cay, then onward by boat towards Mexico.
In Mexico, the journey continues with the goal of evading law enforcement en route to the US border.

⚜️The US-Mexico border, featuring a fence and the Rio Grande, is a critical hurdle before potential detention post-crossing.


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12 Dec 2023 07:24

✅Anirvesh Prelims Mentorship program of VK IAS

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07 Dec 2023 14:02

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22 Nov 2023 03:50

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✅St. Thomas- Christianity- Kolkali art

🅾️In the Malayalam language, "Kol" means stick, and "kali" means dance

🅾️Inspiration : Kalaripayattu, the martial art practiced in Kerala and Tamil Nadu

⚠️Note : There is no historical link b/w St. Thomas and the Kolkali. St. Thomas who brought chrisianity to India landed in Muziris somewhere around 52 AD (now identified with sites near modern-day North Paravur and Kodungallur in Kerala State, India) while Kolkali is a folk dance form that emerged approximately 200 years ago in the North Malabar region of Kerala.However, it is common in various cultures to incorporate local traditions and art forms into religious celebrations or remembrances. Therefore, Kolkali could be performed during events that commemorate St. Thomas as a way of celebrating Kerala's cultural diversity.



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04 Nov 2023 10:58

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✅UNESCO names Kozhikode ‘city of literature’

🅾️UNESCO's Creative Cities Network : Created in 2004 to promote cooperation among cities that have identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable urban development.

🅾️It was launched to promote UNESCO’s goals of cultural diversity and strengthen resilience to threats such as climate change, rising inequality, and rapid urbanisation. It encourages a culture of creativity in urban planning and solutions to urban problems.

🅾️Apart from Kozhikode and Gwalior, Varanasi (music), Srinagar (crafts and folk arts) and Chennai (music) are part of the network.

🅾️Why kozhikode?- North Kerala city of Kozhikode is home to many promiment personalities of the state’s literary and cultural world. The city, where several leading media houses are headquartered, has 100s of publishing banners and several libraries .

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22 Oct 2023 06:50

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✅Gs-3 : Defence technology- Project Udbhav- Integration with ancient Indian military wisdom

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21 May 2024 13:05

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✅Chalcolithic Age- Different cultures

🅾️What to focus on?- Jorwe Culture,Malwa Culture,Kayatha culture, OCP and
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20 Apr 2024 15:43

Kaushik merugu - AIR 82 cracked this exam in the very first attempt- what sets him apart is his wisdom.

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27 Feb 2024 07:45

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✅Types of Sarees- Imp for prelims

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20 Feb 2024 11:28

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✅Rani chennamma

🅾️Context of news - 200 years of Rani Chennamma’s rebellion against the British East India Company

🅾️Who?- Queen of Kittur- princely state - Now in karnataka-Famous for Kittur revolt of 1824

🅾️Cause of revolt?- British East India Company refused to recognise Shivalingappa, an adopted son as the successor of the kingdom under the ‘doctrine of lapse’- as per this-any princely state without a natural heir would collapse and would be annexed by the Company, On December 3, 1824, the British army attacked the Kittur Fort and captured it. Rani Chennamma and her family were imprisoned and jailed at the fort in Bailhongal, where she died in 1829

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09 Feb 2024 10:54

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08 Feb 2024 14:40

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26 Jan 2024 06:27

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✅Historical references in the original constitution text

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09 Jan 2024 07:33

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27 Dec 2023 05:20

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✅Goa’s Konsachem Festival and St. Bartholomew’s Feast

🅾️What?- observed by Goan Hindus and Catholics, honors the new rice grains, known as konxeo in Konkani- basically a festival related to agriculture ( rice)

🅾️Who is Bartholomew?- He was a chirtsian Missionary-Bartholomew is believed to have landed in Kallianpur and preached along the Konkan coast, reaching as far as Karachi.He is revered for his martyrdom in Azerbaijan and his role in the Christianization of Armenia and Georgia.

⚠️ Research by scholars underscores Christianity’s roots in India dating back to the periods even before Portuguese came to india- reinforcing its integral place in Indian faith traditions.

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22 Dec 2023 05:58

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✅Sita Devi birth place- Mithila region history

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12 Dec 2023 07:24

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✅Karan Singh’s Proclamation of 1949

🅾️Historical Context: Instrument of Accession signed by Hari Singh brought J&K into India, but it retained some autonomy, a status clarified and concluded by Karan Singh's proclamation

🅾️Abrogation of Article 370: Supreme Court upheld the decision, ruling that Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) did not retain sovereignty after joining India.

🅾️Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud's Judgment: Cited Yuvraj Karan Singh’s 1949 proclamation as a key factor.

🅾️Yuvraj Karan Singh's Proclamation (1949): Declared the Constitution of India would supersede and abrogate all inconsistent constitutional provisions in J&K.

🅾️Legal Impact: Paragraph 8 of the Instrument of Accession became legally irrelevant, marking the full surrender of J&K’s sovereignty to India.

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07 Dec 2023 05:43

✅The prelims season is coming.

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🔥A video to decode prelims exam into a step-by-step actionable agenda is coming up tomorrow. This will also explain how VK IAS's upcoming prelims mentorship program will address the needs of student( Not just a test series with 1000s of questions 🙂)

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15 Nov 2023 08:59

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✅Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976)- use this tag #Personalities to know about others in news

🅾️Who?- poet, writer, and musician from Bengal,well-known for his songs, which are called “Nazrulgeeti.”

🅾️He is also known as “Vidrohi Kavi (Rebel Poet)”

🅾️He is celebrated as the national poet of Bangladesh and is also revered in West Bengal, India.

⚠️Famous works - "Bidrohi" and "Bhangar Gaan" ,"Rajbandir Jabanbandi" and Dhumketu.

➡️At the time of Bangladesh's independence in 1971 poet Nazrul was staying in Kolkata. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman brought him to Dhaka with state honours. He died in 1976.

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25 Oct 2023 06:38

✅Gs-2 : IR- Indian diaspora

✅Gs-1 : Modern India- Indentured labourers- History

🛑The British instituted the Indentured Labor System in 1843, which persisted until 1920. This system involved a form of bonded labor in which approximately 3.5 million Indians were relocated to various British colonies across the globe to supply labor for British-owned plantations.Indians were taken to several British colonies, including places like Fiji, Mauritius, the Caribbean (Trinidad, Guyana, Jamaica), South Africa, and Southeast Asia, among others.
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20 Oct 2023 10:03

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✅Chamundi Theyyam

🅾️What to focus on?- Region/purpose and social significance- also important for anthropology students

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