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UPSC Mains Essay Question Paper 2021 - Analysis & Insights - A welcome trend
Write Two Essays, Choosing one from each of the Sections A and B, in about 1000-1200 words each.
Topic - History repeats itself, first as a tragedy and second as a farce. (Karl Marx Philosophy Covered in Sociology and Political Science)
This topic is Marxian topic. First the revolution, and the tragedy. The working class overcomes their oppressors and rises, gaining their freedom in glorious revolution. But the class struggle continues. And now the heroes of the working class become the oppressors; the cycle repeats. Dialectal materialism operates via iteration of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, or the relationships between class or classless societies and poverty or wealth, through to the ideal of communism.
Topic - What is research, but a blind date with knowledge. (Social Constructivist approach Covered in World Politics of Political Science and International Relations).
4. Constancy of disadvantaged sections
Topic 5 of section B titled ‘Hand that rocks the cradle rules the world’ was an indirect essay on role of women mother and child and in context of the first point discussed that is broad interpretation it would include women equality , empowerment, etc.
Our Essay Mains 2021 - Essay topic - The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world.
3-5 Topics were covered by us directly as well as indirectly.
SECTION ‘A’- The Process of Self-discovery has now been technologically outsourced.
- Your perception of me is a reflection of you; my reaction to you is an awareness of me.
- Philosophy of wantlessness is Utopian, while materialism is a chimera.
- The real is rational and the rational is real.
- Hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
- What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.
- History repeats itself, first as a tragedy and second as a farce.
- There are better practices to “best practices”.
- God has no religion.
- Science investigates; religion interprets.
- The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.




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