For Essay remember to brainstorm on the following themes today: 1. War: Relevance, irrelevance, changing nature, satyagraha vs violence, gun vs ideas, futility of warfare, war and peace and related concepts 2. Perception and Reality: narratives, social media, post truth, power of the medium vs power of message and related concepts 3. True Knowledge and wisdom: knowing yourself, learning from history, learning from mistakes, introspection, interrelation between knowledge and wisdom and related concepts 4. Nature and Forests: Anthropocentric and eco centric world, natural wealth, ecosystem services, intangible heritage, one life concept and related ideas 5. Science and reason: Rationality vs romanticism, instrumental rationality, tyranny of reason, beauty of science, method of science and related concepts 6. Means vs Ends 7. Women’s issues: Double burden of work and responsibilities at home, child’s first teacher, women’s movement, challenges for modern women, importance of educating women and related concepts 8. Justice: Approaches, stereotypes, affirmative action, what makes a society just and related concepts 9. History: Broad Learnings from History, relevance of knowing history, fundamental reason for civilisations to flourish and perish to and related concepts 10. Religion: morality, conservatism, core ideas of all religions and related concepts. 11. Perseverance and grit: discipline vs motivation, human limits to push themselves and related concepts 12. Freedom: to think, to imagine, to create , to express and related concepts 13. AI and need for a reset of 20th century systems 14. Courage: difference between courage and overconfidence, moral courage and related concepts. 15. Art and creation: fulfilment, provided meaning to life, can flourish when liberty is given and related concepts. Click here to check the Marks Accelerator Compilations to add those extra marks for every GS papers(a collection of best usable points from the highest scorers of each paper)
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