International Relations
Q1. India would have to advance its “national interests” by identifying and exploiting opportunities created by global contradictions. Comment. 10M
Q2. The success of Quad will be determined by its ability to emerge as a forum that will shoulder underlying realities in the Indo-Pacific. Discuss. 15M
Ethics
Quotation-Based Question:
Q3. “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”- Plato 10M
Case study: 20M
Q4. You are the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance in the state Government. Amongst others, the mandate of this ministry is to discharge funds to the relevant schemes and prepare annual reports. Even though the current government is performing well; it is spending a lot on welfare schemes. The debt to GDP ratio of the state has drastically increased. The state has largely borrowed from mortgaging state assets. Alarmed by rising welfare spending the Central government has asked the State to report on its off-budget borrowings. But the chief minister wants you not to report on certain borrowings of higher interest rates. He wants you to downplay the situation by any means possible.
In this situation,
- Discuss the ethical issues around large welfare spending.
- What will be your response to the instructions of the chief minister?
