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Essay writing: Fundamental principles

Spend the first few minutes on brainstorming the idea. Then rank those ideas,

start writing essay: introduction >> body (+/- pros, cons) >> conclusion.

This list is broadly classified into following

Women empowerment

Economy related

Science-tech related

Globalization

Democracy, polity, freedom, development

India’s society, culture, media

Judiciary, law and order

Youth, education, sports

Philosophical / abstract topics and proverbs

Your task is to look at each of these essays, think in your head, brainstorm for

ideas, “if this essay is asked, what I will write in it?”

If you’re positive that “yes I can write 250 words”=> then it is well and

good.

If you can’t think of that much content, then dig Google and gather

fodder points. Of course there is no dearth of readymade essay books in the market,

but that type of firefighting/desi jugaad, I don’t find it very helpful

because such books are either outdated (only reprinted, not updated

after 90s), and or don’t cover all the necessary topics.

Women empowerment

Beauty Contests are an insult to womanhood

Contribution of women in India’s freedom struggle Do we need a Uniform civil Code in India?

Do we need Women’s Reservation

Dowry – A Curse

Empowerment alone cannot help our women

Female infanticide



Gender Bias

Greater political power alone will not improve women’s plight

Growing Flexibility in Gender Roles of Men and Women

Hardships of Working Women

Honour Killings If women ruled the world

Is India ready for a uniform civil code?

Managing work and home – is the Indian working woman getting a fair

deal?

Men have failed: let women take over.

Problems of Working Women

Role of Women in Nation Building

Role of Women in Social Transformation

Should the Rapist be sentenced to Death? The Culture of Modesty

The hand that rocks the cradle

The new emerging women power: the ground realities

Violence against Women

Whither women’s emancipation?

Woman is god’s best creation

Women empowerment: challenges and prospects

Women entrepreneurs of India

Women in Panchayati Raj institutions : Challenges and prospects Women need empowerment

Women should have reserved seats in Parliament

Women rights in India

Economy

Banks are manufacturers of money

Banking sector reforms in India

Banking ombudsman Role of Banks in nation building

Are trade unions relevant in Today’s world?

Protection of ecology and environment is essential for sustained

economic development

Economic Liberalization—Challenges before India



Privatisation of the Economy

Private Sector versus Public Sector

India’s Population and Its Economic Implications

Transforming our Huge Population into Human Resource

Development and Population Control Tourism : Potentials and Problems

The Problems of a Huge Population

From Brain Drain to Brain Gain

Rise and Fall of Currency

Employees Rights to Strike

Proper Infrastructure for Growth

The Problem of Unemployment in India

inflation in India

FDI in retail FDI will ruin the small scale industries of India

Too many Holidays Hamper our Pace of Progress

Poverty in India

Indian Budget is a Gamble on the Monsoons

In India when inflation raises governance stalls.

Features of economic recession.

The risks of trading at the stock market.

The impact of interest rate changes on the economy.

IT sector boom in India. Globalization would finish small-scale industries in India.

Economic growth without distributive justice is bound to breed

violence.

Ecological considerations need not hamper development.

Multinational corporations – saviours or saboteurs

Special economic zone : boon or bane

Resource management in the Indian context.

Should a moratorium be imposed on all fresh mining in tribal areas of

the country? Are our traditional handicrafts doomed to a slow death?

The focus of health care is increasingly getting skewed towards the‘haves’ of our society.

Urbanization is a blessing in disguise.

Public-Private-Partnership



Why are our farmers committing suicide?

To feed our increasing population, forest areas need to be cleared to

increase land area available for cultivation. Do you agree?

Cottage industries

Food security for sustainable national development Indian Budget is a Gamble on the Monsoons

In India when inflation raises governance stalls.

Features of economic recession.

The risks of trading at the stock market.

The impact of interest rate changes on the economy.

Can India achieve Double digit GDP growth rate?

IMF and World bank

WTO

Black Money: its social and economic impacts

Globalization

The masks of new imperialism.

As civilization advances culture declines.

The implications of globalization for India.

My vision of an ideal world order.

India’s contribution to world wisdom.

The world of the twenty-first century. Preparedness of our society for India’s global leadership role.

The global order: political and economic

Good fences make good neighbors

Terrorism and world peace

India’s Defence Needs in a Technological Scenario

United Nations—Role and Future

On Good and Bad Neighbours

India as a global power

Is India a Soft State? Globalization and Multiculturalism

India’s relations with its neighbors

Relevance of United nations in Today’s world

Consequences of globalization

rise of China



my vision of ideal world

‘globlisation’ vs. ‘ nationalism’

National identity and patriotism

Modernisation and westernization are not identical concepts.

Environment

Sustainable Development and Environment

Pollution

Biodiversity

disaster management

Green activism

Drought : A Natural Calamity

Environmental Pollution Wildlife Protection

Global Warming

The Need for Alternative Sources of Energy

Environment and Conservation

clean energy and sustainable Development

Modern world’s fears about nuclear energy.

Information Technology

Computers: A Silent Revolution

Information Revolution

Protection from Internet Abuse

Computer : A Boon or a Bane

India on Mars

India on Moon

Information Technology – Avenues and Opportunities

cyber security

Computers in Everyday Life Internet as Virtual Library

Information Technology transforming the Indian Society.

Computer: the harbinger of silent revolution.

Increasing computerization would lead to the creation of a

dehumanized society.

The cyberworld: its charms and challenges.



Science

Human Cloning – A Dangerous Invention

The modern doctor and his patients.

The technological miracles of the twentieth century Contribution of Science to human progress

Science and human happiness

The lure of space.

HIV AIDS

Nanotechnology

Biotechnology

Science vs. others

Science and Technology – Blessing or Curse?

Science Versus Religion

Man and Science – Development in Science and Technology

Superstitions

The Limits of Science

Science and Religion.

Inventions generate necessity.

Science: Blessing or Curse?

The Scientific attitude rather than science is the need of the day Moral Dilemmas Inherent in Scientific Progress

Is science and art antithetical to each other?

Science and Literature

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind

Superstitions

Human Cloning

The march of science and the erosion of human values.

Democracy & Freedom

Whither Indian democracy today?

Are traditional forms of protest no longer effective?

The predicaments of Democracy.

My motherland



Political reform you want in India

If I were the Prime Minister of India.

Water resources should be under the control of the central government.

The misinterpretation and misuse of freedom in India.

Politics without ethics is a disaster. The VIP culture is a bane of Indian democracy

How far has democracy in India delivered the goods?

What we have not learnt during fifty years of independence.

Are we a ‘soft’ state?

What have we gained from our democratic set-up?

Paradoxes of Democracy

Democracy implies tolerance of dissent

The Role of Opposition in a Democracy

Elections—Lacunae and Remedies casteism in India

Non-Violence

If the British had not colonized India…

Relevance of Gandhi Today

How free are we?

Democracy in India

The test of democracy is the freedom of criticism

Indians are non-violent by nature

Indians are not non-violent by nature migration and regionalism

Election Reforms Versus Indian Democracy

Politics without Ethics

Caste Politics in Elections

Threats to India’s Unity

Democracy in Theory and Practice

Directive Principles of State Policy

Fundamental Rights – Bedrock of Indian Democracy

Communal Harmony VS Internal Security Reservation in Private Sector

Coalition politics: boon or bane

do we need a Lokpal?

The Kashmir issue



Creation of smaller states and the consequent administrative, economic

and developmental implication.

Is autonomy the best answer to combat balkanization?

The language problem in India: its past, present and prospects.

Corruption

Today’s politicians

Criminalization of Politics

Corruption in Public Life

Criminalisation of Politics

do we need CBI

Lokpal

right to information right to service

Right to Reject/Recall India

Can the Corruption be Eradicated from our Society

My Idea of an Administrator

How should a civil servant conduct himself?

Politics, bureaucracy and business – fatal triangle.

Need for police reforms in India

Election in India is the mother of all corruption.

Judiciary / Law and Order

Role of Judiciary in a Democracy

Judicial Activism

Justice must reach the poor

Capital Punishment: favor or against

liquor prohibition

Should smoking be banned in public places?

Internal Security Criminalization of Politics

Police Reforms

Terrorism in India & Global War against Terrorism

Criminalization of Politics

Terrorism in India.

“Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty”.



The Changing Face of Terrorism

Can Terrorism be justified?

Crime : New Dimensions

Left wing extremism in India

Secessionist movements in India In the Indian context , both human intelligence and technical

intelligence are crucial in combating terrorism

Rights

Should there be reservations?

Human Rights

Status of Human Rights in Independent India

Human Rights and the Armed Forces special protection Act custodial torture

Should India implement one child policy

Child Labour

Child rights

Right to food

minority rights

Rights of the physically challenged

The Rights and Wrongs of Free Expression

social networking sites and freedom of speech Reservation, politics and empowerment.

Euthanasia

Should Mercy-Killing be legalized for terminally ill Patients?

Religion

Tolerance is the key to national unity

Social Harmony vs. Communal Frenzy

religion and politics New cults and godmen: a threat to traditional religion

True religion cannot be misused.

Politics and Religion

Communalism

The Rights and Wrongs of Conversion

The world needs more tolerance



Development

People’s Participation in Development

Law as an Instrument of Social Change

Panchayati Raj and Rural Development Evaluation of Panchayati raj system in India from the point of view of

eradication of power to people.

India’s NGOs

Civil Society

Social issues

The Changing Face of Indian Society

Changing Idea of Family India Today

Road rage

Adulteration

problems of urbanization

India – A Tourist’s Paradise

Rural Development

Is vegetarianism a virtue?

increasing consumerism in the middle class in India

Consequences of globalization on Indian society India vs. bharat

rural vs. urban divide

challenges before urbanization

Urbanisation and its hazards

The Indian society at the crossroads.

Why should we be proud of being Indians?

Should the Prostitution be legalized?

Gays should be Accepted Gracefully

Culture

Indian Culture

Tourism in India

Indian culture today: a myth or a reality?



Modernism and our traditional socio-ethical values.

The composite culture of India.

Globalizations and its impact on Indian culture.

Media, Cinema, Television

Advertising and Social Responsibility

Indian Cinema and Social Responsibility

Television and Teenage Violence

Challenge Before Television in India

Media Freedom and Individual Privacy

Can television affect society?

Role of Newspaper

Role of Visual Media in Society Yellow Journalism

Violence and Vulgarity in Films

Power of the press

Responsibility of media in Moulding public opinion.

Advertisements : need for control

Role of media in good governance

Media trials: good or bad?

role of media in national integration

breaking news Mass media and cultural invasion.

Does Indian cinema shape our popular culture or merely reflect it

How has satellite television brought about cultural change in Indian

mindsets?

Responsibility of media in a democracy.

Foreign Media in India: Any Cause for Concern?

Philosophical / Abstract

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Search for truth can only be a spiritual problem.

Spirituality and scientific temper.

Compassion is the basic of all morality

The pursuit of excellence.

What freedom means to me



Your idea of a happy life

Importance of a Work-Ethics

Material Progress and Human Values

Laughter, Truth, and Universality

Have We Lost the Direction? An encounter with an astrologer

Morality and Law

Proverb based

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Truth is lived, not taught

History repeats itself

History needs to be rewritten The Child is the Father of Man

Compassion is the basis of all morality

The road to happiness is always under construction

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds

Truth may be eclipsed but not extinguished

No one knows what he can do till he tries

The great end of life is not knowledge but action

Failures are the pillars of success

“Cowards die many times before their death”. Man is saved not by faith but by work

Laughter is the best medicine

Knowledge is power

‘All That Glitters Is Not Gold’

Discipline means success , anarchy means ruin

Geography may remain the same; history need not.

Attitude makes, habit makes character and character makes a man.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the lifeblood of civilisation.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. Useless life is an early death.

He would reigns within himself and folds his passions and desires and

fears is more than a king.

“Sweet are the uses of adversity.”



Youth

The Problems of Old Age

Menace of Ragging in India

Generation Gap The tragedy of old age is not that one is old but that one is young

Commercialization of sports has degraded of sportsmanship

Menace of Drug Addition

An ideal college

An ideal college

Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, oldage a regret

If youth knew, if age could

Youth culture today

Education

Education in India—Lacunae and Remedies

Commercialization of Education

Privatisation of Education: Solution to Resource Crunch

Examinations are a necessary evil

Pleasures of Reading

India’s Examination System needs to be Overhauled.

Student politics in India Importance of Wearing Uniform in Schools

right to education

pressure of competition is ruining the childhood

Should Students be Allowed to Grade their Teachers?

Modern technological education and human values.

Credit – based higher education system – status , opportunities and

challenges

“Education for all” campaign in India: myth or reality.

Privatization of higher education in India. Irrelevance of the classroom.

Value-based science and education.

Is an egalitarian society possible by educating the masses?

Independent thinking should be encouraged right form the childhood.

Restructuring of Indian education system.



Literacy is growing very fast, but there is no corresponding growth in

education.

What is real education?

Education is Freedom

Why Ban English? The ways to enrich our regional languages.

Sports

Sports sans Sportsmanship

Ethics in Sports

Future of Sports in India

Need to check politicization of sports bodies in India

Value of yoga India and Olympics

Need to check politicization of sports bodies in India

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