V.Nagaraju If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito ~ Dalai Lama This perhaps might be the best one to recall when you are into the services. I am sure once you enter the stream, there will be a lot of challenges, there will be a lot …
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ARCHIVES 06 April 2014 Answer ALL the questions in about 200 words 1. Explain the commercial and military possibilities of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS). Business Standard 2. Explain the different types of deficits that an economy faces. Which deficit is a better indicator of the health of government finances? And why? Business Standard 3. What …
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Write an essay on the following topic in about 2500 Words “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant
~V.Nagaraju Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. …
ARCHIVES 06 April 2014 Topic: Security Issues Question: Do you agree that armed forces in India require greater delegation of financial powers? Critically discuss why. Reference: IDSA
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Topic: IDEOLOGY Question Human societies secrete ideology as the very element and atmosphere indispensable to their historical respiration and life. (Althusser). Comment. (200 words) Next Topic EQUALITY
Topic: POST GUPTA & REGIONAL KINGDOMS Question Discuss critically the role Harsha played in the history of his times. (200 words) Next Topic POST GUPTA & REGIONAL KINGDOMS
ARCHIVES 05 April 2014 Topic: India and its Neighbors Question: Critically examine the implications of recent verdict by Chittagong tribunal in Bangladesh on it and its relation with its neighbours. Reference: IDSA
Topic: Dicey on Administrative Law Question Would you agree that the strong Rechsstaat version of the rule of law found on the continent never existed in England because of its particular history? [CSM 2012/250 Words] Next Topic Dicey on Administrative Law
Topic: Economic Geography Question Problems faced by industries which developed due to inertia. (200 words/CSM 2012) Next Topic Economic Geography
ARCHIVES 05, April 2014 Answer ALL the following questions in about 200 words 1. What were the important recommendations of Narasimham committee (1991) on banking reforms? Have those recommendations been implemented so far? Examine. The Indian Express 2. Critically evaluate the efforts taken by the international community and Israel – Palestine themselves to resolve their …
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~V.Nagaraju “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” -Colin Powell What would we be without the dreams, without the pursuit, without the goal we are after. The magical thing that drives us, teases us, irritates us and cajoles us and make us do all the things which we …
ARCHIVES 04 April 2014 Topic: India and Its Neighbours Question India-China Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) held between the counterpart planning commissions of the two countries – the Planning Commission of India and the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of China – is gradually becoming a mechanism of import. Explain its functioning, important decisions and significance. …
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ARCHIVES 04, April 2014 Answer ALL the questions in about 200 words 1. Write a note on Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarisation 2 (BICEP2) experiment conducted at the South Pole recently. Explain its significance. Business Standard 2. Critically comment on Sri Lanka’s policies towards its Tamil population post – 2009 victory over LTTE. The Indian …
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~V.Nagaraju Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt Ideas rule, they take shape, they make a difference. They make what is seemingly impossible possible and vice versa. The same can be extended to events and the same to people as well. Taken in the right spirit and the …
Topic: Economic Geography Question Analyse the causes for changes in the pattern of world trade.(400 words/CSM 2013) Next Topic Economic Geography
Topic: Dicey on Administrative Law Question Do you think that there is an unresolved and often overlooked tension in Dicey’s concept of rule of law, considering that the other principle of parliamentary sovereignty in English constitutional system runs counter to it? [CSM 2012/250 Words] Next Topic Dicey on Administrative Law
Topic: POST GUPTA & REGIONAL KINGDOMS Question Short notes on the Maukharis paving the way for the glory of Harshavardhana. (200 words) Next Topic POST GUPTA & REGIONAL KINGDOMS
Topic: IDEOLOGY Question Comment on false consciousness in Marxist thought. (200 words) Next Topic IDEOLOGY
