🏛️ Monument Overview: The Shore Temple Located along the wave-swept Coromandel Coast in Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, this iconic complex was built during the reign of Pallava King Narasimhavarman II (Rajasimha) in the early 8th century AD. 🌅 🔍 Core UPSC Pillars to Remember: • The Evolution of Architecture: This monument marks a revolutionary transition phase in South Indian history. It represents the shift away from…

Channel
The IAS Akademia
@theiasakademia
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Polls · Cite this entry
371subscribers
+3 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001597757857 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @theiasakademia |
| Created | Between 1 August 2021 and 28 February 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 September 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 10 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 10 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/theiasakademia |
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 22 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Oct 2026, 02:40 | 371 | -2 |
| 30 Sept 2026, 06:18 | 373 | -3 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 19:57 | 376 | +2 |
| 7 Sept 2026, 21:22 | 374 | no change |
| 2 Sept 2026, 10:49 | 374 | +8 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 22:49 | 366 | -3 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 02:52 | 369 | +1 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 12:41 | 368 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 2 September 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 page 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 7 September 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
मर्केटर की क्षेत्र विकृति (Mercator Distortion): मर्केटर नक्शे पर ग्रीनलैंड और अफ्रीका लगभग एक ही आकार के दिखते हैं। वास्तविकता: अफ्रीका महाद्वीप ग्रीनलैंड से लगभग 14 गुना बड़ा है। भारत और दक्षिण अमेरिका भी इस नक्शे पर अपनी असल लंबाई-चौड़ाई से छोटे प्रतीत होते हैं। Eckert IV क्यों बेहतर है? यह एक Equal-Area प्रक्षेप है, जो यह सुनिश्चित करता है कि नक्शे पर 1 वर्ग सेमी जमीन हर जगह वास्तविक पृथ्वी के समान क्षेत्र…
Weekend read 👆🏻👆🏻: Vikramorvashi by Kalidas; English translation.
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Vikramorvashiyam (meaning Pertaining to Vikram and Urvashi) is a classic five-act Sanskrit play written by the ancient Indian poet and playwright Kalidasa. It tells the immortal love story between a mortal king, Pururavas (often referred to as Vikram), and a celestial nymph (apsara) named Urvashi.
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🌅 IMAGE #06: Daily UPSC Image Quiz 🌅 Spot the heritage, decode the history! 🧐 Examine the image below and test your knowledge of India's architectural marvels. 👇 🧠 💡 HINT: This structural stone temple is located on the Coromandel Coast of Tamil Nadu. Marco Polo and European travelers famously referred to this region as the land of the "Seven Pagodas" due to its distinctive shore-facing towers! 🌊🏯 👇 Drop your op…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @theiasakademia. 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.
How many of the last 4 UPSC Image Quizzes did you answer correctly?
- 4/4 | Absolute Genius! 🏆 (My core concepts & visual mapping are rock solid)0%
- 3/4 | Excellent Effort! 📈 (On the right track, just missed a tiny detail)0%
- 1/4 (or 0) | Learning Mode! 🎯 (No worries, that's why we have daily discussions!)0%
- Need more such images to test0%
Shares as published, totalling 0%. 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 2 September 2026 to 7 September 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.
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 10 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The IAS Akademia” (@theiasakademia), 371 subscribers as measured 10 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/theiasakademia.
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.