Mains 2021 Result declared - In or Out?
So Mains 2021 has begun. Essay Paper is here
1. https://blog.forumias.com/upsc-ias-mains-2021-essay-question-paper/
2. GS Paper 1 : https://blog.forumias.com/download-upsc-ias-mains-2021-gs-1-question-paper
3. GS Paper 2 : https://blog.forumias.com/download-upsc-ias-mains-2021-gs-2-question-paper
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How was your paper? How did you approach the paper?
plmokn25688524,History repeats itself....Intro: quote by Einstein about world war 4 ( “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”). Why he felt so? Because he understood humans don't learn from history.Best example are the World wars (political dimension). How petty intercountry rivalries in Europe ended up in WW1 and then WW2 and Hitler and then again continued to cold war madness.Plus about China. How china itself was divided up by Western powers, invasion by Japan and now the same China doing it to others.Economic angle about stock market bubbles. Tulip bubble in Europe, 2007 recession and the latest Theranos scam.Technological dimension. How human inventions always are introduced as a panacea and then end up creating more problems than it solved. DDT, Plastic bags ("the National flower of Africa").Environmental. Climate change predicted long ago, but even now we're not ready to change blah blah... GM chairman's joke about why his beach house not under water if climate change is real...Then Indian situation. How vested interest groups are exploiting religious and caste divisions just like the British did and how social media abet them, by selling our personal data to them, which they got from us in the first place by giving us free games, making the whole thing a farce.Conclusion, that the only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn anything from it! We have to be especially alert in this post truth world blah blah blah.(The 'tragedy, farce' keywords were intentionally used in each para).
Lol same to same. French revolution and reign of terror and fir Napolean dada aaye, IVC perished due to climate change yet abhi log serious nhi hai , Spanish flu se CoVid kuch improve nhi hua log riots kar rhe Europe me ki lockdown nhi lagega, capitalism socialism fir neoliberalism , Nazis to Neo Nazi etc yhi sab likha and yes farce or history par stress every other para me.
Conclusion me those don't learn from history doomed to repeat wala likha or pessimistic conclusion diya ki log hote hi guchiye hai , Stockholm syndrome se suffer krte.
@D503 I feel it would be most common choice second being cradle one in section b.
Nhi yaar mujhe wo self discovery wala laga jyada log attend krenge wo philosophical Kam technological jyada laga mujhe Spotify or YouTube ke algos ke oopar likh diya mai and how relying for self discovery on tech can lead to polarisation filter bubble echo chamber etc
OctagonalArcher,
D503,
real is rational rational is real was intellectually most challenging. I am happy I did not know it was written by hegel despite being psir student (which is good since hegel is not part of psir syllabus and if someone frm psir still studies it then god bless them) as that would have clouded my creative imaginations. This also enabled me to start creatively instead of bringing hegel's ugly head in the introduction itself. However I did link thinkers indulging in investigations on reason and reality including hegel in my essay but went much beyond his stupid philosophy. This also helped me to create my own philosophy which I put forward as :-
"Knowledge is the principal threat to castles of imagination"
Jajantaram Mamantaram
@D503 thats in section A
Ohh galti se mistake ho gyi. Ha fir toh whi tha . Wese it's interesting to get opinion of people who are not doing any kind of prep on these philosophical essays. Like mere pitaji bole Jo duniya me propaganda karta hai whi duniya par Raj krta hai ye li khna tha isme😆
Akkku,
@Philip_Marlowe @Akkku Thanks
Akkku,Philip_MarloweJajantaram Mamantaram
iphoole,
@D503 exactly hegels dialectical materialism being philosophical basis of marx but marx being inspired by faeurbach for historical materialism and unlike hegel who believes consciousness being basic of all historical change and force for all social institutions, marx believed its your existence which determines your consciousness i.e. material conditions of life determine historical change which is driven by mode of economic production all that is good. but if we learn real is ................ by hegel such in depth study of hegel is unnecessary and even counter-productive
Ok agli baar aapse hi puchke padhlenge. Mera to selection ruk gya fir mene Hegel padhlia :(
D503,but yeah if you have missed one whole essay out of two, then its entirely different story hehe
Jajantaram Mamantaram
jab koi kisi 10 marker prashna ko gyan ya samay ke abhaav hetu chhodta he to "Technically" wo 10 mark ka prashna chhodta he lekin "Actually" wo 3 ya 3.5marks ka chhodta he, utna jitna use us prashna me milta gar wo us prashna ko attempt kar pata.
As plato says reality is shadow of ideas. estimate of loss as 10 mark is a reality which is merely a shadow of idea i.e. the true reality which is 3 or 3.5 marks. (application of philosophy to achieve some mental peace :D )
Jajantaram Mamantaram
plmokn25688524,
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