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Overall, while coming out of the examination hall if you are satisfied with the answers you have written then feel confident about yourself and do not worry about the review of essay given here..

I have seen as low as 10 marks in essay..and as high as 175..

so keep fingers crossed and hope for the best

wrote a story on how Amdebkar was treated in schools due to his caste(reflection of the teachers attitude towards him and how successfully he excelled in academics and gave the constitution(reaction of him=self belief in himself).

Then a brief background on the definitions of perception and attitude.

Then wrote how the USA India and USA Japan relations were altered. Wrote how Indra Gandhi was treated in USA and how we did Green revolution as a remedy. 

Moved on to sachin tendulkar( Perception due to his short height and how he became the God of cricket later).

Then how doctors inspite of being attacked sometimes for not treating covid patients well(perception), but still carry on with their duties.

Concluded by stating all this reflects the judgemental attitude and quoted Mother Teresa who said love in important that judgmental.

I first wrote about kant noumena nd phenomena. Then I wrote how perception are influenced by value one posses .Then I told how society , family ,school inculcate values in people .

Then I wrote about emotional intelligence nd defined it 

Then I wrote about relevance of this statement in present context .Social political economy ..Etc dimensions .

Such as .Farm laws were based on capitalist value of govt while resistance by farmers was their self awareness about their problem .

China aggression in galwan was their perception that india is weak while india reaction was it's self awareness about its capacity 

Similarly .Britishers english education while indians used it for understanding their own history by using that english education .. 

Etc etc etc .

But I think I messed it up in conclusion as I couldn't connect it with the body of the essay .Wrote kalam's quote at end ..Harmony in society nd peace in world vala .

10 marks mean, most probably misunderstood the meaning of both the essays and may have wrote even the opposite of the requirement.

Don't understand subheadings in an essay. It breaks the flow.

I do Not think that it is essentially on women only. Because in the 2005 essay paper, one question was also of women empowerment explicitly. How come they give 2 essays on one topic. Yes I know that poem of the very same name..but yet. Also this classification was done by the author of this book.

Once upon a time, In UPSC CSE..an essay on 'engenderisation of development' came. Now engenderisation has 2 different meanings. Shashi Tharoor tweeted on that and The exam controller came with a clarification that all the interpretations willbe taken.

Comment edit nahi ho pa raha hai, the essay was on  "If development is not engendered, it is endangered"

2016 ki clarification

Started with Swami Vivekananda conference in usa where some group labelled him as uncivilized due to his dressing but swamiji came up with soft convincing why dressing is not the value to judge. 

Gave perception of patriarchy and the different response of women such as one bog down another become one like sushma swaraj. 

Similarly perception of British toward India and the subsequent response of Gandhi approach.

Also similar dimension of Ambedkar and caste system, India & Palestine approach.

Then talked about why perception matters and how we can change perception and the subsequent response. Concluded by way forward like value education, Compassionate perception, and the role of leadership in imbibing perception and response.

While writing conclusion, became deluded bcoz have to finish fast and thus not able to connect with main demand of topic.

Other one I wrote was Research is the blind date of knowledge wala. Which one you wrote in 2nd essay?

It was in 2016. I had written that essay😅 I remember the shock I had, when my roommate, while returning after the exam, told me that engendering means something else. I googled the meaning and true, it's meaning was "to cause or produce". I had taken it as gender topic. But with the first meaning, actually the sentence became meaningless. So I searched the entire sentence, and turns out, it was about gender and that quote was from a speach made by Mahbub ul haq, the brain behind human development index. So, had Tarur not tweeted about it, pretty sure UPSC would've gone ahead with the conventional interpretation.

Even after Tharoor tweet, don't understand how UPSC could give marks or what people can write with that meaning. See that UPSC said "acceptable interpretations" will be evaluated. Now apply the meaning "cause / give rise to" to that statement. "Lack of caused development is endangered development" ??? 😅

If I knew the real meaning of that word, I wouldn't have attempted that question (like my roommate). But still don't understand what people could write with the other interpretation.

Also see the Hindu translation provided by UPSC (I think it was after that year that people realised the importance of accompanying Hindi translation. At least I did).