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Post by Dr. Yatri Thor on Oct 25, 2014 13:11:20 GMT 5.5
Topics for Essay
1. International Terrorism, Radicalization (ref. ISIS is one of the big news since last few months)
2. Is India prepared to deal with a Pandemic like Ebola ? (most probably to see such questions in a GS paper)
3. India's foreign policy and its challenges (our foreign policy has become more muscular in last few months, recent developments at WTO, border clashes, BRICS, trade etc)
4. Environment (Climate change conference next year in Paris, new Kyoto type binding treaty is expected and UPSC simply loves Ecology and Environment.....prel this year was a good example of this love affair)
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Post by Dr. Yatri Thor on Oct 25, 2014 13:15:46 GMT 5.5
More topics:
1. Human Rights in World Politics: Does action belie the talk?
2. The booming superstition market in India's knowledge economy.
3. The real success story of India lies not in the domain of economics, but in the politics.
4. It doesnt matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.
(ref. Vision essay test paper 1)
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Post by Don Quixote on Oct 30, 2014 10:05:23 GMT 5.5
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Post by Lisbeth Salander on Oct 30, 2014 19:42:37 GMT 5.5
2-globalistaion and values of Mahatma Gandhi An excerpt from Articles : On and By Gandhi Gandhi in the cyber age and in the context of GlobalisationWhat is the relevance of Gandhi in this all pervading materialistic, agnostic and consumerist culture? It is precisely these three tendencies Gandhi fought all his life. It is a fact of history that repudiation of one philosophy at a given time does not mean the death or irrelevance of it. The men and women who moved the world were mostly either crucified, burnt alive, or were branded heretic, or excommunicated. Still independent inquiry and pursuit of truth and to express themselves against injustice were continued in all ages, probably with added vigour. The irreversible fact of history, again, is that the list of such 'rebels' steadily grows despite all attempts to ward off the perceived threat. Despite all the impressive gains mankind has achieved in the present century through intelligent harnessing of science and technology which brought in unexpected and unimaginable results in various fields, the world today is on the throes of several global crises. Conflicts and tensions of all sorts are increasing, sending shock waves all around. With the disappearance of the Soviet Union as the leader of block-of nations, the world has become unipolar. If anybody believed that the cold war years have ended and humanity could live in peace henceforth, his hopes have been completely belied as could be seen from the various disturbing fighting and raging violence and senseless killings in various parts of the world. Notwithstanding all high sounding assurances on arms reductions and cuts in military expenditure, we see an alarming escalation in the production of lethal weapons. It is estimated that there is an annual world- wide consumption of 1000 billion dollars on arms alone. Even one-sixth of this huge amount is sufficient enough to remove world hunger in the next six years. Where have we gone wrong? Have we lost all our concern for our less fortunate brethren? Almost all the planning models we have experimented have strong elitist bias, and connotation of moneymaking and influence building seem to be the basis of all the models we have been experimenting within recent times. This has led to serious consequences in many areas. The tendency of urbanisation is as old as human civilisation and it is a natural consequence of a changing society. In fact this process was considered a welcome development on grounds of economies of scale reduction of disturbances, and efficient sharing of resources generated through the adoption of urbanisation. With industrialisation, a new element was introduced and people who own means of production gradually usurped the fruits of industrialisation and a new class of people emerged. Impoverishment and marginalisation have increased. Instead of offering vast opportunities to the worker what happened was the growing awareness that jobs are becoming fewer and scarce. A vast majority was denied access to jobs and the gulf between the organised labours also increased. More distressing than any of these is the untold miseries industrialisation has brought which led to the sprouting up of slums; those veritable hells where humanity is crushed beyond any sign of redemption. Introduction of high technology has inevitably made agriculture, the oldest human profession, into an industrial activity. This rendered many farm hands surplus. Where do the labour forces go? Inevitably, to the urban centres. Bombay is the best example. Out of the total population of the 10.5 million in 2000, six million are leading a subhuman kind of living in these veritable infernos called slums.
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Post by mike on Nov 5, 2014 1:52:50 GMT 5.5
can someone plz upload the essay from crackias material "Whither Indian Democracy"...TIA
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Post by mike on Nov 9, 2014 20:31:50 GMT 5.5
can someone plz upload the essay from crackias material "Whether Indian Democracy"....TIA
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Post by Lisbeth Salander on Nov 10, 2014 2:50:45 GMT 5.5
can someone plz upload the essay from crackias material "Whether Indian Democracy"....TIA A framework of the essay is given on iasexamportal .
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Post by Dr. Yatri Thor on Nov 10, 2014 3:15:40 GMT 5.5
Essay topics from Vision IAS Essay Test -2
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Post by Dr. Yatri Thor on Nov 10, 2014 3:19:50 GMT 5.5
Essay topics from Vision IAS Essay Test -3 (Click on the picture to enlarge it)
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Post by Dr. Yatri Thor on Nov 10, 2014 3:22:37 GMT 5.5
Essay topics from Vision IAS Essay Test -4 (Click on the picture to enlarge it)
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Post by Dr. Yatri Thor on Nov 10, 2014 3:24:51 GMT 5.5
Essay topics from Vision IAS Essay Test -5 (Click on the picture to enlarge it)
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Post by Don Quixote on Nov 11, 2014 10:09:43 GMT 5.5
The Essay on Science and Religion, two years back, would have been so much nicer with arguments like these: I remember writing pretty much straightforward, that Science is better than religion, instead of giving a holistic view like, on the differences, and ultimately similarities, between science and religion, and consequently got screwed (~65). I guess I also added, Durkheim's views on organized religion being nothing but society being divinized, but not in an effective manner. Src: www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/science-and-religion-are-partners-dan-brown/article6584753.ece Src: www.firstpost.com/living/critical-to-have-dialogues-with-those-who-share-different-ideologies-dan-brown-1797027.htmlSrc: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Science-and-religion-are-partners-Dan-Brown/articleshow/45103428.cms
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Post by mike on Nov 12, 2014 1:02:11 GMT 5.5
can someone plz upload the essay from crackias material "Whether Indian Democracy"....TIA A framework of the essay is given on iasexamportal . Thanks Lisbeth....actually i wanted tht particular Crackias one, because of its specific structure and use of language. lets c if I'll get it from any where...upload here as well
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Post by Don Quixote on Nov 12, 2014 16:12:05 GMT 5.5
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