UPSC CSE Mains 2024 Essay Paper | Type of Topics Completely Changed

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This is a quick analysis of UPSC CSE Mains 2024 Essay Paper. Nature of essay topics has changed considerably compared to last few years.
UPSC CSE Mains 2024 Essay Paper Short Real Time Analysis
Section A
1. French philosopher François-René de Chateaubriand - “Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them”.
Clue - Forests existed before civilizations appeared be it Roman empire in Mediterranean or Harappan/Sindhu-Saraswati civilization in India. But these civilizations led to desertification in all these places.
This quote can be found in NCERT Egnlish Hornbill Book but Class 11 - Ailiing planet chapter
Connections - Sustainable development, Anthropocene, Conservation, Climate etc.
2. Winston Churchill - "The empires of the future will be the empires of the mind"
Clue 1 - Future of peace and harmony without warfare and a universeal community exchanging ideas bringing universal peace
Clue 2 - Connect with knowledge economy, AI, technology, innovation - so many endless points
3. There is no path to happiness; Happiness is the path.
Clue - A very general topic discussed every day in social media and podcasts. You will find voice note about this on this channel also posted often in past.
Happines and its meaning has been a repeated topic in GS 4 Mains paper.
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4. Richard Feynman - "The doubter is a true man of science".
Clue - Again a very general topic discussed everywhere.
Healthy skeptcism, questioning oneself, questioning others and then connect this topic with people who proved others wrong or even themselves wrong. Connect it with Phiolospher who discarded their own theories- connect it with classical physics and quantum physics, connect it with faith vs verification - lots of scope.
Section B
5. Social media is triggering Fear of Missing Out' amongst the youth, precipitating depression and loneliness.
Clue - Very popular topic of discussion. You must have read it in GS 4 also.
You can use keywords from GS 2 lecture on Social media from here
Netflix Movie 2023 Kho Gaye Hum Kahan (खो गए हम कहाँ)
Popularity of this topic is again reflected in voice notes of this channel here
6. Abraham Lincoln - "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but to test the character, give him power."
I hope you all know how popular is this quote. No need to provide any clue here.
This Quote is a PYQ from UPSC Mains 2013 GS 4 Paper
7. All ideas having large consequences are always simple.
Clue - Nothing starts big, everything starts small.
You can expand it to Gravitation theory from Apple falling down to space time wrap, from Tata to Facebook, from Gandhi ji in Africa to Quit India movement - lots of points around
8. The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing
Clue - Again this understanding is part of motivational videos floating around.
Connect it with perfectionism problem, mention how initial trials make sure you are able to discard the low quality experiments and able to learn from your mistakes. Compare the minds of some great scientists one who kept planning and one who hopped onto experimentation. Business world also has so many examples for this topic.
Conclusion - Above analysis is only and only to show you that we need to take a notice of the things happening around us. Simply scrolling will not help though. We need to analyze the issues and solutions provided are also avaialble around us. We just need to be a bit more aware.
Detailed discussion will happen after Mains 2024.
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