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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2026 · Q8 Paper
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A good leader is one who follows the followers.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Thinkers & Philosophers#Integrity & Probity#Ethical Leadership
Uby @upsc2ias
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2026 · Q7 Paper
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Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

Democracy, Polity & Governance

#Integrity & Probity#Moral Courage
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2026 · Q6 Paper
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A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.

Education & Knowledge

#Education#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2026 · Q5 Paper
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Nature is the symbol of the spirit.

Environment & Sustainability

#Biodiversity & Conservation#Sustainable Development#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2026 · Q4 Paper
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When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled.

International Affairs & Security

#Major Powers#International Relations
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2026 · Q3 Paper
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A thorn is a changed bud.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2026 · Q2 Paper
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A grateful mind is very beautiful.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Emotional Intelligence#Compassion & Empathy
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2026 · Q1 Paper
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Oxymorons reflect the ironies of life.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2025 · Q8 Paper
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Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Globalization#Sustainable Development#Thinkers & Philosophers#Consumerism & Changing Values
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2025 · Q7 Paper
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It is best to see life as a journey, not as a destination.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2025 · Q6 Paper
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The years teach much which the days never know.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2025 · Q5 Paper
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2025 · Q4 Paper
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Best lessons are learnt through bitter experiences.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2025 · Q3 Paper
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Thought finds a world and creates one also.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2025 · Q2 Paper
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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

International Affairs & Security

#International Relations#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2025 · Q1 Paper
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Truth knows no color.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Thinkers & Philosophers#Integrity & Probity
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2024 · Q8 Paper
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The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Integrity & Probity#Moral Courage
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2024 · Q7 Paper
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All ideas having large consequences are always simple.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2024 · Q6 Paper
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but to test the character, give him power.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Thinkers & Philosophers#Integrity & Probity#Ethical Leadership
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2024 · Q5 Paper
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Social media is triggering ‘Fear of Missing Out’ amongst the youth, precipitating depression and loneliness.

Science & Technology

#Youth#Mental Health#Media & Social Media#Health
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2024 · Q4 Paper
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The doubter is a true man of science.

Science & Technology

#Religion & Philosophy#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2024 · Q3 Paper
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There is no path to happiness; Happiness is the path.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2024 · Q2 Paper
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The empires of the future will be the empires of the mind.

Education & Knowledge

#Education#Higher Education & Research
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2024 · Q1 Paper
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Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

Environment & Sustainability

#Biodiversity & Conservation#Sustainable Development#Land Degradation & Desertification#Forests
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2023 · Q8 Paper
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Education & Knowledge

#Education#School Education
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2023 · Q7 Paper
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

Society, Culture & Social Justice

#Poverty & Hunger#Welfare Schemes#Inequality
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2023 · Q6 Paper
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Mathematics is the music of reason.

Education & Knowledge

#Education#School Education
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2023 · Q5 Paper
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands — two equally harmful disciplines.

Women & Gender

#Women#Youth#Family & Values#Inequality
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2023 · Q4 Paper
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Inspiration for creativity springs from the effort to look for the magical in the mundane.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Literature & Performing Arts
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2023 · Q3 Paper
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Not all who wander are lost.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2023 · Q2 Paper
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Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Integrity & Probity#Ethical Leadership
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2023 · Q1 Paper
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Thinking is like a game, it does not begin unless there is an opposite team.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2022 · Q8 Paper
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Just because you have a choice, it does not mean that any of them has to be right

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Thinkers & Philosophers#Ethical Dilemmas
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2022 · Q7 Paper
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A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Emotional Intelligence
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2022 · Q6 Paper
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You cannot step twice in the same river

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
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CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2022 · Q5 Paper
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Attitude & Persuasion
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2022 · Q4 Paper
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A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ship is for

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Attitude & Persuasion#Integrity & Probity#Moral Courage
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2022 · Q3 Paper
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History is a series of victories won by the scientific man over the romantic man

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2022 · Q2 Paper
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world

Society, Culture & Social Justice

#Literature & Performing Arts#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2022 · Q1 Paper
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Forests are the best case studies for economic excellence

Environment & Sustainability

#Growth & Employment#Biodiversity & Conservation#Sustainable Development#Forests
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2021 · Q8 Paper
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There are better practices to “best practices”.

Democracy, Polity & Governance

#Transparency & RTI#Good Governance
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2021 · Q7 Paper
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History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.

History & Heritage

#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2021 · Q6 Paper
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What is research, but a blind date with knowledge!

Education & Knowledge

#Education#Higher Education & Research
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2021 · Q5 Paper
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Hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Women & Gender

#Women#Family & Values
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2021 · Q4 Paper
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The real is rational and the rational is real.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Thinkers & Philosophers
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2021 · Q3 Paper
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Philosophy of wantlessness is Utopian, while materialism is a chimera.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Globalization#Thinkers & Philosophers#Consumerism & Changing Values
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2021 · Q2 Paper
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Your perception of me is a reflection of you; my reaction to you is an awareness of me.

Philosophy, Quotes & Values

#Religion & Philosophy#Emotional Intelligence#Attitude & Persuasion
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2021 · Q1 Paper
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The process of self-discovery has now been technologically outsourced.

Science & Technology

#Media & Social Media#AI, IT & Digital Tech
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2020 · Q8 Paper
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Technology as the silent factor in international relations

International Affairs & Security

#Major Powers#International Relations#AI, IT & Digital Tech#Cyber Security
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages
CSE · EssayOfficial PYQ · CSE 2020 · Q7 Paper
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Patriarchy is the least noticed yet the most significant structure of social inequality

Women & Gender

#Women#Family & Values#Inequality
Uby @upsc2ias
📝 1200 Words
🎯 125 Marks
📄 12 Pages