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Channel
Anthropology Optional for UPSC
@anthrooptional360
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
4,316subscribers
-7 since we began measuring on 25 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1002106672096 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @anthrooptional360 |
| Created | Between 1 November 2023 and 31 May 2024— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 25 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 28 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 3 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 28 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/anthrooptional360 |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Aug 2026, 11:38 | 4,316 | -7 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 07:45 | 4,323 | no change |
| 25 Aug 2026, 07:30 | 4,323 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 4 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 17.8%
- avg views ÷ 4,316 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 769
- 20 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 0.129%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 20
- of 20 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 10 of 20 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 25 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 20 (4 August 2026 – 25 August 2026) |
| Views total | 15,372 |
| Reactions total | 11 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 25 Aug 2026, 07:45 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
Reaction mix
11 reactions across 8 posts, in 1 kind.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 11 | 100.0% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 10 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 11reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 4 August 2026 to 25 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
📌 Anthropology Current Affairs 🧬 AI moves from reading genomes to designing them Stanford & Arc researchers used genome-language models Evo 1/2 to design complete bacteriophage genomes, then built and tested them. This was not AI manufacturing human viruses: the phages targeted only E. coli. 📊 Key facts: ➡ AI generated ~700,000 designs; 285 were synthesised ➡ 16 became viable phages (≈5.6% success) ➡ A cocktail ove…
🧠 Anthropology Made Easy for UPSC Cultural Ecology 🌱 🤔 Why do people living in different environments develop different ways of life? Because culture and environment influence each other. This idea is central to Cultural Ecology—the study of how human societies adapt their social and cultural practices to their environment. In simple words, the way we live is partly shaped by the world around us. 💡 Example: Julian …
Question 20 - Discuss counterfeit currency and money laundering as major sources of terror funding in India. State the actions being taken at International level to check these menaces. Highlight the role of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and methods of compliance by its member states in preventing terror funding. (Answer in 250 words) 15 Structure Intro: Terrorism cannot survive without financial resources; hen…
4 Questions for Internal Security (2026 Mains) - As expected Quick analysis and broad outline for each question below ⬇️ Question 9 - Explain how fake news and disinformation pose threat to Internal Security and Public Order in Indian context? In this regard, discuss salient features of amendments in respect of Information Technology (Intermediatory Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021. (Answer in 1…
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📌 GS2/GS3 (Employment, Rural Development) 🚜 Employment guarantee has slipped into limbo MGNREGA was replaced by VB-G RAM G on July 1, 2026, raising the guarantee from 100 to 125 days—but rural employment has fallen. 📊 Key data: ➡ April–July 2026: 70 crore person-days, down 43% from the previous 2-year average ➡ July: 7.67 crore person-days vs 15.33 crore under MGNREGA in July 2025 (−49.94%); households employed fel…
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📌 GS2/GS3 (Tribal Rights, Environment) / Anthropology 🌊 Why Adivasis oppose the Ken–Betwa project India's first river-link will transfer Ken water to drought-prone Bundelkhand through a 231-km canal, but villagers fear losing forests, farms and culture. 📊 Key facts: ➡ Daudhan dam: 10 villages submerged; ~9,000 ha affected, including 4,141 ha Panna Tiger Reserve core + 1,314 ha buffer ➡ 22 villages affected; project…
📌 GS3 (Energy, Environment, Consumer Protection) ⛽ The road to E20 is not without bumps India's E20 rollout targets energy security, lower oil imports and emissions—but creates a difficult transition for vehicle owners. 📊 Key data: ➡ Fleet: ~70mn newer vehicles are E20-compatible; ~240mn legacy vehicles (77%) were built for E5/E10 ➡ Surveys: 66% of pre-2023 owners report >10% mileage loss; 55% cite higher maintenan…
🧠 Anthropology Made Easy for UPSC Reciprocity 🤝 🤔 Why would someone give you something without asking for money? Because sometimes, giving is not about profit—it is about relationships. In Anthropology, Reciprocity means exchanging goods or services in a way that creates and maintains social bonds, trust and mutual obligations rather than simply following a market price. 💡 Example: Among the Andamanese hunter-gathe…
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📌 GS2 (IR, Maritime Security) 🌍 India is losing West Asia—but it is not too late India's earlier gains are fading: Saudi Arabia's 2016 civilian honour to PM Modi, 2021 I2U2, and 2024 Chabahar lease now face a changing regional order. 📊 Why it matters: ➡ Mecca Pact (Aug 7): Saudi Arabia–Türkiye–Pakistan treat attack on one as attack on all; pools Saudi capital, Turkish technology and Pakistan's military strength ➡ P…
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📌 GS3 (Defence Reforms) ⚔️ Military transformation, intellectual leadership Arjun Subramaniam notes PM Modi's 2014 call for fast-tracked military reform hasn't achieved transformation despite a decade of effort. 📊 Key points: ➡ 3 obstacles: lop-sided Higher Defence Org reform (onus only on forces); no inter-service consensus on integration; slow intellectual articulation by leadership ➡ Past flag-bearers: Gen K. Su…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @anthrooptional360. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@testbook_ugcnet · 51,304
Telegram ranks this channel #47 of 76 here — alongside 75 others — read 25 August 2026
@UPSC_Previous_Year_Papers · 49,651
Telegram ranks this channel #84 of 91 here — alongside 90 others — read 25 August 2026
This channel appears in 2 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 28 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Anthropology Optional for UPSC” (@anthrooptional360), 4,316 subscribers as measured 28 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/anthrooptional360.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.