Hi friends! Hope your 2024 is off to a great start. For this post, I wanted to write about a book I recently read and liked a lot, Twelfth Fail by Anurag Pathak. I heard about the movie, 12th fail, which was doing very well and learned that it was based on a book by the same name, that too, a book originally written in Hindi. I have been wanting to read Hindi books, especially something that was positive and not too heavy. Another reason I thought I would like this book was that it was related to UPSC. UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) examination is arguably the toughest examination in India. It is conducted to select the candidates for the highly reputed Indian Civil Service. A successful candidate needs to pass through three levels of examination spanning around a year. I, personally, have been at times interested in pursuing civil services. But that remained an interest and never really turned into a commitment. My journey remained limited to reading about UPSC and how to prepare for it. Me and another friend in college even used to discuss which services among many we would give as our first preference. After rigorous discussions about the pros and cons of each, we would come to our preferred service choices. It was like we had finalized the curtains, we just didn’t have the land yet to build the house. So, I was looking forward to living the UPSC journey vicariously by reading this book.
Book of the month: Twelfth Fail
Book of the month: Twelfth Fail
Book of the month: Twelfth Fail
Hi friends! Hope your 2024 is off to a great start. For this post, I wanted to write about a book I recently read and liked a lot, Twelfth Fail by Anurag Pathak. I heard about the movie, 12th fail, which was doing very well and learned that it was based on a book by the same name, that too, a book originally written in Hindi. I have been wanting to read Hindi books, especially something that was positive and not too heavy. Another reason I thought I would like this book was that it was related to UPSC. UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) examination is arguably the toughest examination in India. It is conducted to select the candidates for the highly reputed Indian Civil Service. A successful candidate needs to pass through three levels of examination spanning around a year. I, personally, have been at times interested in pursuing civil services. But that remained an interest and never really turned into a commitment. My journey remained limited to reading about UPSC and how to prepare for it. Me and another friend in college even used to discuss which services among many we would give as our first preference. After rigorous discussions about the pros and cons of each, we would come to our preferred service choices. It was like we had finalized the curtains, we just didn’t have the land yet to build the house. So, I was looking forward to living the UPSC journey vicariously by reading this book.