Wednesday, July 12, 2017

30 Essays for Practice





1.       "Selfies & Social Media : Are we becoming self-obsessed?"
2.       "Problems and Reforms in Higher Education in India"
3.       "What ISRO could do, why others couldn't?"
4.       India-Bangladesh relations : Is it only Fish and Water ?

5.       Should VIP Culture in India come to an end?
6.       Can India be a better tourist destination?
7.       In India, Why Only Cricket? Why can't it be hockey or football?
8.       Is Secularism in India under Threat or [Is] Media Blowing things out of proportion?
9.       India' Foreign Policy post-1991
10.    Is Judiciary interfering too much in Indian Cricket?
11.    "Biased Media is more dangerous than a dictatorial government - Do you agree?"
12.    Can India use Yoga as Soft power?
13.    Jallikattu, Kambala, Dahi-Handi.......: Tradition Vs Judiciary
14.    Indian National Movement and its Ideology
15.    Expression and Privacy today – more curbs than freedom?
16.       Communal Harmony through Indian history
17.    Procurement of Military Hardware – Is India Arming without Aiming?
18.     India should focus more on local environmental issues than the global ones
19.    There are no people without history or who can be understood without it.
20.    What keeps a country together? Not economics. Love, love and affection. That’s the Indian way.
21.    Welfare states Vs Power states
22.    The present global economic crisis and South Asia
23.    Costs incurred on large accelerators and space stations could be diverted to Millennium Development Goals
24.    The changing character of India’s higher bureaucracy can be seen in the tectonic shift in the role of an administrator from that of a ‘feudal administrator’of the British legacy to that of a manager and deliverer of services.
25.        Reconciliation of the contrasting demands of energy (coal, hydropower etc.) for a developing nation and environmental balance and protection is becoming increasingly difficult.
26.        The peripheral states of India (the North East particularly) have been envisioned ‘differently’ leading to differential integration of these states with mainland India.
27.       SSARC & India
28.       Diplomacy in the modern world is a judicious mix of soft and hard power, and this holds all the more true in the context of India.
29.    Is Indian Democracy moving in the right direction?
30.    Violence cannot be the answer to water sharing disputes


Sunday, July 9, 2017

Aspirant of the Month : Suman Mukhopadhyay



Dear All

We are pleased to portray the success of our member Shri Suman Mukhopadhyay. 

He is now in West Bengal Civil Service. 

Next target is surely UPSC Civil Services !!




Name : Suman Mukhopadhyay

Designation : Assistant Director, Food & Supplies dept, Govt of

                                                                                             WB

Achievements :

1.      Miscellaneous Services Examination, 2011

              ( Block Welfare Officer)|

2.      WBCS-2012 (Gr.-C)—WB Junior Social Welfare Service
3.      WBCS-2013 (Gr.-A)—WB Food & Supplies Service

Friday, July 7, 2017

Advanced MAINS-pattern Test Series



Dear Aspirants

Trademark is in its 10th year. Our genesis was in 2008. 

Trademark has specialised in UPSC CSE MAINS Test Series and is in its 5th year of the Advanced Test Series

Toppers have benefited from this Test Series and have generously praised it - without any favour extended to them by us. 

There is no gainsaying the fact that sometimes upto 70 per cent of the questions are mirrored in actual UPSC MAINS - viz. POL SC & IR in 2016. 

General Studies, HISTORY & POL SC - are the ares in which we thrive. 

We assure another honest, efficient & dedicated Test Series for 2017

If you have finished the whole syllabus ONCE and / OR if you aspire to write MAINS this year, then it is recommended to go for this module

The schedule & other details are attached. 

We are commencing from 16th JULY with ESSAY !!

Registrations have to be completed on 08th & 09 th July 2017

The Tests could be taken in Offline as well as ONLINE mode