Thursday, January 6, 2022

UPSC CSE MAINS 2021-22

 Essays : Let us watch out for tomorrow's essays that UPSC will ask 


Q1. Write an essay in about 1000 words on any one of the following: [80 marks]

1a. India’s cultural diversity sustains its territorial integrity: Yes or NO?

1b. A plastic packet in the local market is more dangerous than a tsunami in the Indian Ocean : Do you agree?

 

Q2. Write an essay in about 500 words on any one of the following: [50 marks]

2a. Drone technology and counter-terrorism

2b. Virus, mutation and medical preparedness

 

Q3. Write an essay in about 2000 words on any one of the following: [120 marks]

3a. The best revenge is not to be like your enemy - Marcus Aurelius

3b. Every pain gives a lesson and every lesson changes a person


A.   Write an essay in about 1000-1200 words on any one of the following topics

1.  It’s not always bad to listen to your heart.

2.  What should India do to be a global superpower by 2040?

3.  An unbiased, transparent Judiciary is what India needs for an egalitarian society

4.  Gender equality, breaking of glass-ceiling and harassment of women at workplace



A.   Write an essay in about 1000-1200 words on any one of the following topics

1.   Proper history would educate our future generations

2.   Vagaries of Monsoon and Indian agriculture

3.   The Intellectual and the Common Man

4.   Post-COVID World Economy



A.    Write an essay in about 1000-1200 words on any one of the following topics

1.  What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational 

2.  There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance

3.  We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

4.  Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness



B.    Write an essay in about 1000-1200 words on any one of the following topics

1.   Climate change, Himalayas and Natural Disasters in India

2.   How you view India’s composite culture in 2050?

3.   Post 9/11 global security architecture

4.   Is India Atmanirbhar on the eve of 75 years of its independence?