Prabha Shares

 Mr Ravi IPS is relieving from his service today. It must be a bit heartbreaking for him and many others like me also do feel the same as he feels. Though he is not directly familiar to me, I always have a huge respect for him. Because I have heard people speaking so high about him. And as a civil service aspirant, that too the one aspiring to become a Police officer, I always admired him. It was during 2017, my last civil services attempt, I cleared UPSC prelims, mains and got selected for the personality test. The government coaching centre for All India Civil Services Exam by the Tamil Nadu government usually conducts mock interviews for the aspirants, who gets selected for the personality test. Though it was my third personality test in UPSC, I never attended any mock interviews before. Since that was my last attempt, my mentor Ms Kumareswari of P.L.Raj IAS academy insisted me on attending a mock interview before moving to Delhi for the UPSC personality test. Until I stepped in the

Cyclones and storms are usual nightmares in the Bay of Bengal during the months of October to December but it was and is an extra-baggage of worry to the Tamilnadu aspirants preparing for UPSC because every year they have to face the most crucial part of their dream, that is the Mains examination during these months. Since the capital city - Chennai is the only center for this examination the aspirants from the entire state have to suffer majorly during this period. Source: IndiaGlitz Since 2003 I was preparing for the exam and my stay in Chennai started from then. My first Mains was during 2006 October and it turned out to be a real nightmare. Those days there were no established coaching centers as of now and we were devoid of internet connection and smartphones. So lack of information made me suffer. I was not aware of this climatic condition and it was during the last day of the examination, as I stepped out of the house I saw suddenly formed lakes around the house, nothing but t

The results of Civil Services Examination 2019 has been published and the media has already started creating its usual row with the popular taglines “Visually challenged women has challenged her fellow students by clearing IAS”, “Son of a daily waged laborer has cleared the toughest exam of the country”, “Daughter of a farmer who doesn’t even have electricity facility has become the light of inspiration to her village”, etc. This post is not against those aspirants who have really worked hard to attain the prestigious post of the country. It is against those critics who easily comment on the aspirants who have not been successful, for not putting enough efforts, without even knowing what the exam is all about. Source: DTNext I am in this field for the past 17 years, have seen all ups and downs, and has faced a lot of such criticisms. Out of that experience, I would like to share a few incidents to clarify all those criticisms. The competitive exams are conducted nation-wide and every

I am that kind of person who has grown watching cinemas and many movies that I have watched have created a huge impact on me. Movies are the biggest entertainments of my life and beyond that, I have learned a lot of things through movies. Be it psychological, philosophical, or factual I have gained a lot of insights from the flicks. Dasavatharam is one flick which got released on 13 June 2008, if have released earlier in around March month of that year could have secured me a service in UPSC possibly. I would like to share a small interesting narration about it. In the year 2008, I was selected for the UPSC interview in the month of April and that was my first UPSC interview after two attempts in civil services. The chairman of my interview board was none other than Mr. Balagurusamy, the ‘OOPS’ man who authored the famous book called Object-Oriented Programming with C++ which is the bible of software engineers of those times. Interestingly, it was his first time too as an interviewer f

At times situations and circumstances push you to the verge of failure and even to the extent of changing your fate upside down. The same thing I experienced in the year 2009. It was during the latter half of February when I was eagerly waiting for the results of the UPSC Mains examination, the second important stage of my life ambition. That was my second proper Mains and the previous year I scored low marks in Mains due to which I lost the attempt even after being selected for the personality test. So this time I was very ambitious to get through the examination and prepared hard for the Mains exam. I was confident enough so that was eagerly awaiting the result. But fate was different and I lost my father which broke my mental strength into billion pieces. I had to move to my native to perform the funeral, and that is when the results were announced. I have cleared the examination but was so blank and was not able to realize anything happening around me. I had to stay back for furthe