Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Essays 2020-21

 

Dear All


Please find 24 essay topics as asked in our Advanced Mains Test Series 2020 (Oct-Dec). 

We would see on 8th January 2021 how these topics aided the aspirants in their actual essay paper in UPSC Mains


[Topics marked in RED were almost similar to what was asked in UPSC Mains today - also shown in RED

Topics marked in italics and PINK were grossly similar to what was asked in UPSC Mains today - also shown in PINK]


1.    ‘Make in India’ and defence production ecosystem in India

2.    Will Artificial Intelligence kill human creativity and endanger human existence by 2100?

3.    Climate of research in India and the sight of the Nobel prize

4.    What the Indian economy needs after the COVID shock?

 

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a.   “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong” – Bertrand Russell



b.   Even while they teach, men learn

c.    There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide” – Albert Camus

d. Start-ups and MSMEs are the twin pillars of India’s economic growth. Do you agree?

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1.      Food waste, deforestation or air pollution, which is the most dampening issue in today’s India?

2.      Warfare in 2100 : what changes do you envisage?

3.      The start of 2020 ushers in the ten-year countdown to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is a crucial year for ensuring our policies, financing, and ambition align to reach the Goals by 2030

4.      Does racial injustice still thrive in the world? Can India contribute to this effect?

 

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a.     Life and Death, Hope and Despair in the era of Coronavirus

 

b.     “You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore

c.     “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” ― C.S. Lewis

d. “Pity those who don't feel anything at all.”
― Sarah J. Maas

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1.      Working from home, open book examinations; the new normal?  

2.      India needs to have an assertive foreign policy

3.      A population outflux from India should be encouraged

4.      Curbs on media are at times, justified

 

 

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a.     The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others

 

b.     State, citizen and government : unravelling the relationships

c.     Corporate social responsibility, private business sector and the reduction of poverty

d.     Attaining freedom is useless if there is no ideology to achieve


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UPSC CSE MAINS 2020 ESSAY Paper : 08 JAN 2021

SECTION A

1. Life is a long journey between human being and being humane.

2. Mindful manifesto is the catalyst to a tranquil self.

3. Ships do not sink because of water around them, ships sink because of water that gets into them.

4. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.


SECTION B

1.Culture is what we are, civilisation is what we have.

2. There can be no social justice without economic prosperity but economic prosperity without social justice is meaningless.

3. Patriarchy is the least notices yet the most significant structure of social inequality.

4. Technology as the silent factor in international relations.




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