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UPSC – MAINS – GENERAL ESSAY

In the mains we've to write a compulsory Essay paper which is worth 200 M and they're counted in the merit list. There are many books / guides for essay writing in the market as well, but if we write from it, we'll end up writing a street quality, cheap, strerotype school essay and getting very few marks.
Our essay has to be unique, precise, showing our vast knowledge and understanding of the subject which can't be done reading 2 page essay in some cheap guide book. If we analyse last 10 years papers of Essay, then we'll notice that they generally ask essay from following themes ONLY


 Women Empowerment
 Social Issues
 Environment
 Rural Vs Urban
 Modern Vs Traditional Culture / Values
 Administrative / Law & Order
 Science-Technology and its role in human / rural development
 Education
 Cinema too (in 2011 Mains, it was asked)


So whenever we see some editorial related to it in the newspaper – DO READ IT, and note down the imp topics from it/ cut and file it, which will help us to have sufficient knowledge, viewpoints and ideas to write a 200 Marks worth essay.
And it’s not a one day process- we follow it through out the year.