How to deal with hobbies related questions in Interview?
Acing UPSC IAS 2020 Personality Test requires thorough preparation of oneself including one's hobbies and academics. If your hobby / your mentioned 'Reading Newspaper' as your hobby in UPSC IAS Main DAF 2020. This is blog is for you.
Hobbies and its Significance
A person's self image is reflected in his hobbies. Hence hobbies play larger role in one's life and career development. Remember, whatever be your hobby is, you must be in a position to highlight to the interview Panelist about its significance to your self-actualization, higher development or creativity.
Hobbies has many benefits in our day-to-day life, some of which are mentioned below:
- act as great stress buster
- encourage you to take a break (mental and physical)
- offer new challenges and experiences
- allow you to explore yourself and your talents
- help improve your career etc.
I. Reading Newspaper as Hobby
Reading newspaper is a good hobby as it has two words: ‘reading’ and ‘newspaper’. Reading is a good habit. It is said that “Leaders are Readers”. To become a leader, you must read, read, and read. Newspapers provide us all round information about current development in various fields. In fact, reading newspapers make you an eclectic, a well-versed and educated person.
Reading newspapers has several benefits:
- Being an IAS aspirant, you must keep your abreast with all the current events and latest developments by reading newspapers.
- You would keep yourself updated with latest technology, ideas and solutions to socio-economic problems.
- They help you develop critical perspective (looking into deeper) and an objective mindset.
- It provides global best practices and innovation in overcoming our challenges.
That said, the IAS aspirants shall keep in mind the some important facts about newspapers including the history of newspapers in India and latest developments for UPSC IAS 2020 Interview point of view.
History of Newspapers
- First newspaper In India: Hickey’s Bengal Gadget in 1780
- First Hindi language newspaper: Udant Martand by Jugal Kishore Shukla
- (The Rising Sun),1826.
- First Vernacular newspaper in India: Samachar Darpan, Bengal,1881.
- Oldest newspaper still in print: Bombay Samachar (Gujarati), 1822.
- Newspaper with largest circulation in India: Dainik Darpan (Hindi), The Times of India (English).
- First newspaper in India with a news ombudsman: The Hindu.
Previous years Interview questions on Newspaper Reading
- Which Hindi newspaper do you read?
- Tell me the name of the chief editor of Dainik Jagran newspaper?
- What is the headline of today's newspaper?
- Who is the editor of The Hindu newspaper?
- What can you do to get more people to read?
- What is the name of the award given for exemplary Journalism?
Pulitzer Prize
- Established in 1917
- Named after the US Publisher Joseph Pulitzer
- Conferred annually in the USA
- For accomplishments in journalism, literature and music
Here is the complete list of Pulitzer Prize Winners 2020:
Category | Winners |
Public Service | Anchorage Daily News in collaboration with ProPublica |
Local Reporting | Staff of The Baltimore Sun |
Investigative Reporting | Brian M. Rosenthal of The New York Times |
Breaking News Reporting | Staff of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky. |
Explanatory Reporting | Staff of The Washington Post |
National Reporting | T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi of ProPublica and Dominic Gates, Steve Miletich, Mike Baker and Lewis Kamb of The Seattle Times |
International Reporting | Staff of The New York Times |
Feature Writing | Ben Taub of The New Yorker |
Commentary | Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times |
Criticism | Christopher Knight of the Los Angeles Times |
Feature Photography | Channi Anand, Mukhtar Khan and Dar Yasin of the Associated Press |
Audio Reporting | Staff of This American Life with Molly O’Toole of the Los Angeles Times and Emily Green, freelancer, Vice News for “The Out Crowd” |
Editorial Writing | Jeffery Gerritt of Palestine (Tx.) Herald-Press |
Editorial Cartooning | Barry Blitt, contributor, The New Yorker |
Breaking News Photography | Photography Staff of Reuters |
II. Reading Books as Hobby
Significance of Reading Books
Reading books enhance ones mental faculties, creativity in thinking and visualizing and unfolds ones strengths.
There are different genres of books:-
- fiction (science fiction, drama, novel, etc.),
- non-fiction (biographies, auto-biographies, self-help etc.) and
- poetry (anthologies)
Be thorough with the basics of your genre. If your genre is non-fiction (auto-biographies), then make sure you have read at least two books in this genre. If you have not read anything till now, start reading it from now and complete at least two books till your interview date.
As you mentioned 'reading books' is your hobby, apart from, your genre of study, IAS aspirants must also know various awards in Books or Literary category in their genre.
The list of Some major Literary awards and winners are mentioned below:
- Noble Prize for Literature 2020: Louise Glück
- Man Booker Prize
- Highest literary award to authors of British, Irish and Commonwealth countries
- Established in 1969.
- Renamed as Man Booker Prize, as the sponsorship has been taken over by the Man Group, an international stockbroker.
- Man Booker Prize 2020: Douglas Stuart
The International Booker Prize 2020: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld & Michele Hutchison
Jnanpeet Award: Poet Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri
- Sahitya Academy Award:
- By the Ministry of Culture
- Award in Literature in 20 languages
- Rs. 1 Lakh cash prize
Similarly, you should explore all the basic related information about your genre in books category so that you would answer any type of question in IAS interview.
Previous Questions on Books as Hobby
- What kind of books do you read question mark
- Why you read motivational books
- How do you choose a book to read do you read book reviews
- Name some books you have read? who are their writers?
- Why don't youngsters nowadays rate something in Vernacular languages?
- Don't you think Reading comics is a very childish hobby?
- Tell me why should you read books?
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