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As you might have noticed, most of the toppers of UPSC Civil Services Examination (CSE) talk about quality of the study you put in to prepare for any competitive examination. Their advice, invariably, is to not to count the number of hours you spend studying but to look at the quality of the hours you […]

The Civil Services Examination results always mesmerise me with their new set of achievers earning their much-coveted success in their own unique ways. The results of  UPSC CSE 2021-22 also came with their own extraordinary success stories and inspiring tales, not only for the future aspirants but everyone out there who wish to make it […]

As you might know, success never comes easy and quick. It comes with hard work, pain, obstacles, failures and much more. It looks always challenging when one starts working on his or her dreams. Most of the times, it gets hard going further, to the extent that one starts thinking of giving up. Sometimes, it […]

As we prepare the content for this issue, I have a distinct feeling that things are getting back to a new normal, if not the normal that we used to know. Educational institutions are already getting into their regular mode. Others too are resuming their normal activities. Some of the cities and states have announced […]

At some or the other point of time in your life, you must have found yourself in such a situation where solution of a stubborn problem comes into sight only when you shift your focus to something that is completely unrelated with the problem at hand. Suppose you are trying to evolve a pattern for […]

Like you, I am also a compulsive optimist. I say so because I know that without being optimistic at heart you cannot put up hard work of so many hours of a precious day and so many years of a young life in your preparations for tough competitive examinations. You do so in the hope […]

I always find myself curious to know what goes on in your mind when you enter a new year. Is it only an occasion for you to do a party and celebrate the new year? Is it only a change of a date for you? Do you look at it as just a new leaf […]

Dear Friend, Today I share with you an interesting nugget which many of you might not have an idea about. Before the invention of television, computer, Internet, smartphone and entire paraphernalia attached to the digital life, sources of information and knowledge were quite different. Books, encyclopedias, newspapers, magazines and such other printed sheets were the […]

Dear Friend, You must have realised that life is full of many colours, many shades. Sometimes it is full of joy, sometimes full of sorrow. One has to learn to live with all kind of emotions and situations. These days, stress has become a big word. No, I am not talking only about the pandemic […]

Dear Friend, The announcement of UPSC Civil Services Exam results has invariably been an occasion for celebrations for all of us at the CSR. No, please don’t get me wrong. True, neither we appear in nor does anyone of us crack the prestigious exam. But, as a result of constantly helping the aspirants with the […]