Essays with Dr.Madhan IRS(C&IT)’25, AIR784(CSE25) pinned «Dear fellow aspirants, This is Dr. Madhan Varma.P. IRS(C&IT)‘25. AIR 827 in UPSC CSE’24. AIR 784 in UPSC CSE‘25. The Essay paper in UPSC mains has been a deal breaker/rank spoiler for many aspirants. Despite this popular trend, essay scores have, year…»

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Essays with Dr.Madhan IRS(C&IT)’25, AIR784(CSE25)
@essayswithdrmadhan784
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Polls · Citations · Cite this entry
5,167subscribers
+99 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1002686418417 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @essayswithdrmadhan784 |
| Created | Between 1 March 2025 and 31 July 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 16 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 14 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 16 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/essayswithdrmadhan784 |
Topic
Education — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 13 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Sept 2026, 08:16 | 5,167 | +25 |
| 12 Sept 2026, 09:17 | 5,142 | +1 |
| 7 Sept 2026, 19:01 | 5,141 | +7 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 23:18 | 5,134 | -1 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 22:04 | 5,135 | +3 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 15:05 | 5,132 | +2 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 22:37 | 5,130 | -2 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 05:42 | 5,132 | +18 |
| 18 Aug 2026, 03:01 | 5,114 | +6 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 05:43 | 5,108 | +15 |
| 12 Aug 2026, 02:22 | 5,093 | +24 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 18:35 | 5,069 | +1 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 20:00 | 5,068 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 19:48 | 5,068 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 19 March 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 6 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 14 July 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Reaction mix
1,005 reactions across 18 posts, in 13 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 85.8% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 862 | 85.8% | |
| 👍 | 52 | 5.17% | |
| 🔥 | 27 | 2.69% | |
| 👌 | 23 | 2.29% | |
| 👏 | 18 | 1.79% | |
| 🤷♂ | 6 | 0.597% | |
| 🙏 | 5 | 0.498% | |
| 👎 | 4 | 0.398% | |
| 🤯 | 4 | 0.398% | |
| 🌭 | 1 | 0.1% | |
| 🏆 | 1 | 0.1% | |
| 😁 | 1 | 0.1% | |
| 🥱 | 1 | 0.1% |
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 18 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 1,005 reactions 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 19 March 2026 to 14 July 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
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Essay BTS #9 Reading Like A Writer #2 I enjoyed the framing of this piece in The Hindu today. It opens with two references from popular movies, compares the emotional burden of a surgeon with that of a journalist, and gradually explores the psychological weight of living amidst a relentless stream of distressing news. Notice that the movie references aren’t inserted merely to make the article interesting. They ser…
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Essay BTS #8 - Myth Breaker #2 Myth: “Always end a paragraph with a sentence that leads into the next paragraph. Transition sentences are essential.” Reality: Good transitions don’t come from formulaic phrases. They arise naturally from the progression of ideas. The transition should happen in thought, not merely in words. Ending a paragraph with lines like: “Now let us see…” “The next aspect is…” “Having discu…
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Essay BTS #7 - Myth Breaker #1 In my interactions with a few aspirants and rankers and while reviewing some of their copies, I’ve come across certain essay-writing formulas that the coaching industry often presents as absolute truths. Some of them are surprisingly simplistic and far removed from how good essays are actually written. Myth: “Write very short paragraphs to suit the short attention span of examiners.” …
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Hey friends, It has been a crazy few days post-prelims. Those who wrote the exam are probably still recovering from the shock dealt by this year’s paper. And I’m sure the fear-mongering has already reached those who didn’t write it too. Telegram groups, mentors, coaching channels — everyone seems busy analysing the “pattern change”, predicting cut-offs out of thin air, reassuring distraught aspirants, and manufactu…
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Hey friends, I don’t believe in toxic positivity. And I definitely don’t want to sell motivational clichés. But I do believe that outcomes in UPSC often depend on how we approach a handful of crucial days — especially Prelims exam day. In my long and chaotic relationship with this exam, I’ve been through all kinds of Prelims days: - I cleared 2022 Prelims with less than a month of preparation while being in State…
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Essay BTS #6 — Make the reader think One powerful way to elevate an essay: Reveal something profound hidden inside something familiar. An example: “So I was revisiting the movie Inception lately and realised something profound. Most of the recent Nolan movies have “unresolved Daddy issues” at their core! - A Father light years away wants to get back to his daughter - Batman - the poster boy of daddy issues - …
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Hey everyone, My schedule has been quite hectic lately, and I apologise for not being able to respond to each of your messages individually. I fully understand the anxiety that the essay paper creates, especially given the recent trend of wide variations in marks. Through this channel, my endeavour is simple: to share the qualities and approaches that have worked in my favour, consistently, with anyone who may fin…
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What did you think of this quote?
- I read it already & did feel the same way32%
- I read it before, but appreciating only now42%
- Meh, Sounds quite normal to me25%
Shares as published, totalling 99%. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
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Essays with Dr.Madhan IRS(C&IT)’25, AIR784(CSE25) pinned a photo
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @essayswithdrmadhan784. 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.
Polls
The poll we hold for this entry, as Telegram rendered it when we read the post. A poll’s figures keep moving after that, so each one is dated.
What did you think of this quote?
- I read it already & did feel the same way32%
- I read it before, but appreciating only now42%
- Meh, Sounds quite normal to me25%
Shares as published, totalling 99%. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
Percentages only — there are no per-option vote counts here, because Telegram publishes none. The public post preview gives each option’s share and a single voter total, and nothing else. Multiplying one by the other would produce a per-option tally that looks measured and is not: the shares are rounded to whole numbers before we ever see them. We print what was published and leave the column that does not exist empty.
The shares need not add up to 100. Rounding alone puts many polls at 99 or 101. A poll that allows more than one answer per voter runs well past 100 by design, and several here do. The bars are drawn against a fixed 100% track at each option’s own percentage rather than normalised to the total, so a poll that exceeds it shows that it does instead of being quietly rescaled.
Read from the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 19 March 2026 to 14 July 2026. Telegram labels each poll by kind — an anonymous poll, a quiz, a closed set of final results — and that label is reproduced rather than paraphrased.
Mentions
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
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 16 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Essays with Dr.Madhan IRS(C&IT)’25, AIR784(CSE25)” (@essayswithdrmadhan784), 5,167 subscribers as measured 16 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/essayswithdrmadhan784.
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.