Society — UPSC Mains Essay PYQ

2024

1. Q5
   Social media is triggering ‘Fear of Missing Out’ amongst the youth, precipitating depression and loneliness.

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2023

1. Q5
   Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.

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2. Q7
   A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

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3. Q8
   Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

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2022

1. Q2
   Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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2021

1. Q5
   Hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

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2020

1. Q5
   Culture is what we are, civilization is what we have.

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2. Q7
   Patriarchy is the least noticed yet the most significant structure of social inequality.

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2019

1. Q3
   Best for an individual is not necessarily best for the society.

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2. Q5
   South Asian societies are woven not around the state, but around their plural cultures and plural identities.

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2017

1. Q3
   Destiny of a nation is shaped in its classrooms.

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2. Q6
   Fulfilment of ‘new woman’ in India is a myth.

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3. Q8
   ‘Social media’ is inherently a selfish medium.

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2016

1. Q1
   If development is not engendered, it is endangered.

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2015

1. Q1
   Lending hands to someone is better than giving a dole.

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2. Q4
   Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make a man more clever devil.

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3. Q6
   Crisis faced in India – moral or economic.

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4. Q7
   Dreams which should not let India sleep.

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2014

1. Q2
   Is the growing level of competition good for the youth?

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2. Q3
   Are the standardized tests good measure of academic ability or progress?

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3. Q7
   Fifty Golds in Olympics: Can this be a reality for India?

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2013

1. Q2
   Is the Colonial mentality hindering India’s success?

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   Persons with disability are not a special category but a constitutional default

   125 marks 1100 words Medium Model answer →
2. •
   The tribal commons is a treaty the modern state still owes

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3. •
   Manual scavenging is the unfinished sentence of the Republic

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4. •
   Mental wellness is the next frontier of public health

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5. •
   A rural India unseen is a republic unmade

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6. •
   Women in leadership change not only outcomes but the meaning of leadership

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7. •
   Religious pluralism is not a tolerated condition but a constitutive promise

   125 marks 1150 words Hard Model answer →
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   Caste is a wound the law has stitched but the conscience must heal

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   A mother tongue is the first homeland a child ever knows

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10. •
    Every generation inherits a debt it did not sign

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11. •
    Parenting in the algorithmic age is the new frontier of citizenship

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    India’s strength lies in its plurality, not its uniformity

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13. •
    To preserve heritage is to participate in the future

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    The crisis of mental health is the silent pandemic of our times

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    Loneliness in a connected age is a wound the algorithm cannot heal

    125 marks 1100 words Medium Model answer →
16. •
    Education without empathy is mere instruction

    125 marks 1100 words Easy Model answer →