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- - - - Indian Democracy Previous Year Essay Questions
        
        India Since Independence
        
        Dreams which should not let India sleep. -2015
        
        Why should we be proud of being Indians? -2000
        
        Whither Indian democracy? -1995
        
        How far has democracy in India delivered the goods? -2003
        
        What we have not learnt during fifty years of independence. -1997
        
        What have we gained from our democratic set-up? -2001
        
        My vision of India in 2001 a.d. -1993
        
        In the context of Gandhiji’s views on the matter, explore, on an evolutionary scale, the terms ‘Swadhinata’, ‘Swaraj’ and ‘Dharmarajya’. Critically comment on their contemporary relevance to Indian democracy -2012
        
        Is the Colonial mentality hindering India’s Success? -2013
        
        Federalism, Decentralization
        
        Impact of the new economic measures on fiscal ties between the union and states in India. -2017
        
        Water disputes between States in federal India. -2016
        
        Cooperative federalism : Myth or reality. -2016
        
        Creation of smaller states and the consequent administrative, economic and developmental implication -2011
        
        Evaluation of panchayati raj system in India from the point of view of eradication of power to people. -2007
        
        Water resources should be under the control of the central government. -2004
        
        The language problem in India: its past, present and prospects. -1998
        
        Administration
        
        There are better practices to “best practices”. -2021
        
        How should a civil servant conduct himself? -2003
        
        Politics without ethics is a disaster. -1995
        
        The VIP cult is a bane of Indian democracy -1996
        
        Need for transparency in public administration -1996
        
        The country’s need for a better disaster management system. -2000
        
        Politics, bureaucracy and business – fatal triangle. -1994
        
        Judiciary
        
        We may brave human laws but cannot resist natural laws. -2017
        
        Justice must reach the poor -2005
        
        Judicial activism and Indian democracy. -2004
        
        Judicial activism. -1997
      - Monarchy
      - Dictatorship
      - Oligarchy
      - Theocracy
    - - “The ballot is stronger than the bullet”- Lincoln.
      - “Somewhere inside all of us is the power to changethe world.” – Matilda
      - Democracy is “government of, by and for the people”. -Abraham Lincoln.
      - A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy - Theodore Roosevelt.
      - The lesson of history is clear: democracy always wins in the end. - Marjorie Kelly
- - - - ILLITERACY
        
        Steps improve literacy standards in India
      - POVERTY
        
        SUGGESTIONS AND GOVERNMENT EFFORTS TO REDUCE POVERTY IN INDIA
      - GENDER DISCRIMINATION
      - REGIONALISM
      - .CORRUPTION
      - CASTEISM, COMMUNALISM, RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM
      - CRIMINALIZATION OF POLITICS
      - POLITICAL VIOLENCE
      - Electoral autocracy': The downgrading of India's democracy
      - INDEX
        
        India on 108th Position in Electoral Democracy Index 2023
        
        India’s standing on the Liberal Democracy Index (LDI) is once more appallingly low, and it even has the sad distinction of falling from 100th place in 2022 to 108th this year.
        
        The only other factor that might temporarily cheer democratic and patriotic Indians is the fact that Pakistan, which is next door and is currently experiencing a severe economic crisis, is only ranked two places lower, at 110.
        
        In its most recent report, the George Soros-funded V-Dem Institute asserted that the average global citizen’s level of democracy had fallen to that of 1986.
        
        Many would find this assertion hard to accept given that there have been many significant geopolitical changes worldwide in the 35 years since the mid-1980s.
        
        The Indian government has been secretly working to keep its reputation as the “world’s largest democracy” alive after being called out by researchers for serious democratic backsliding under the nationalist rule of Narendra Modi, according to internal reports seen by the Guardian.
        Despite publicly dismissing several global rankings that suggest the country is on a dangerous downward trajectory, officials from government ministries have been quietly assigned to monitor India’s performance, minutes from meetings show.
        
        BOOK
        
        Democracy - totalitarian - survelliance
        1984 - George Orwell
        
        THEME
        
        One of the definitive texts of modern dystopian literature.
        
        Powerful warning against totalitarian regimes and extreme political ideologies
        
        “Big Brother” is watching you.
        
        “2+2 = 5 — dogma, spread by the government through propaganda”.
        
        Memory Hole — any mechanism of destroying/disappearance/alteration of the embarrassing documents, photographs, transcript to give an impression that something never happened
        
        Room 101 — Torture camp where party attempts to subject a prisoner to his worst nightmare or fear or phobia etc