Essay /GD topix: Prologue

List of Mock Essay/Interview Topics for Bank PO, LIC, RBI exams

Contents Prologue ........................................................................................................................................................... 1

Women empowerment ............................................................................................................................... 2

Economy ........................................................................................................................................................... 3

Globalization ................................................................................................................................................... 4

Science Tech.................................................................................................................................................... 5

Environment related ..................................................................................................................................... 5

IT related .......................................................................................................................................................... 5

Science as such .............................................................................................................................................. 5

Science vs others ........................................................................................................................................... 6

Polity/Society related ................................................................................................................................... 6

Democracy, Freedom related ............................................................................................................... 6

Corruption ....................................................................................................................................................... 7

Judiciary / Law n Order ............................................................................................................................... 8

Rights ................................................................................................................................................................. 8

Religion ............................................................................................................................................................. 8

Development .................................................................................................................................................. 9

Social issues .................................................................................................................................................... 9

Culture ............................................................................................................................................................... 9

Media, Cinema, Television ......................................................................................................................... 9

Philosophical / Abstract type essays .................................................................................................... 10

Proverb based .............................................................................................................................................. 10

Youth Education and Sports ................................................................................................................... 11

Youth ............................................................................................................................................................... 11

Education ....................................................................................................................................................... 11

Sports .............................................................................................................................................................. 12

Essay /GD topix: Women empowerment

I’ve compiled this list from previous Bank Papers, LIC / other insurance exam papers,

UPSC (from both compulsory English and regular Essay- papers), index of some

essay books.

This list is neither sacred nor exhaustive, but covers lot of the ground that needs to

be covered, in terms of Essay / interviews.

This list is broadly classified into following

(1) Women empowerment

(2) Economy related

(3) Science-tech related

(4) Globalization

(5) Democracy, polity, freedom, development

(6) India’s society, culture, media

(7) Judiciary, law and order

(8) Youth, education, sports

(9) Philosophical / abstract topics and proverbs

Your task is to look at each of these essays, think in your head, brainstorm for ideas,

“if this essay is asked, what will I write in it?”

If you’re positive that “yes I can handle it for 250/500/xyz number of words”=>

then it is well and good.

If you can’t think of that much content, then dig google and gather fodder points.

Ofcourse there is no dearth of readymade essay books in the market, but that type

of firefighting/desi jugaad, I don’t find it very helpful because such books are either

outdated (only reprinted, not updated after 90s), and or don’t cover all the necessary

topics. But still, if you want to refer to any books, you may use Spectrum Book of

Essays (click to buy from flipkart, pay on delivery)

1. Beauty Contests are an insult to womanhood

2. Contribution of women in India’s freedom struggle

3. Do we need a Uniform civil Code in India?

4. Do we need Women’s Reservation

5. Dowry – A Curse

6. Empowerment alone cannot help our women

7. Female infanticide

8. Gender Bias

9. Greater political power alone will not improve women’s plight

10. Growing Flexibility in Gender Roles of Men and Women

11. Hardships of Working Women

12. Honour Killings

13. If women ruled the world

14. Is India ready for a uniform civil code?

15. Managing work and home – is the Indian working woman getting a fair deal ?

16. Men have failed: let women take over.

17. Problems of Working Women

18. Role of Women in Nation Building

Essay /GD topix: Economy

19. Role of Women in Social Transformation

20. Should the Rapist be Sentenced to Death ?

21. The Culture of Modesty

22. The hand that rocks the cradle

23. The new emerging women power: the ground realities

24. Violence against Women

25. Whither women’s emancipation?

26. Woman is god’s best creation

27. Women empowerment: challenges and prospects

28. Women entrepreneurs of India

29. Women in Panchayati Raj institutions : Challenges and prospects

30. Women need empowerment

31. Women should have reserved seats in Parliament

32. Women rights in India

1. Banks are manufacturers of money

2. Banking sector reforms in India

3. Banking ombudsman

4. Role of Banks in nation building

5. Are trade unions relevant in Today’s world?

6. Protection of ecology and environment is essential for sustained economic

development

7. Economic Liberalization—Challenges before India

8. Privatisation of the Economy

9. Private Sector versus Public Sector

10. India’s Population and Its Economic Implications

11. Transforming our Huge Population into Human Resource

12. Development and Population Control

13. Tourism : Potentials and Problems

14. The Problems of a Huge Population

15. From Brain Drain to Brain Gain

16. Rise and Fall of Currency

17. Employees Rights to Strike

18. Proper Infrastructure for Growth

19. The Problem of Unemployment in India

20. inflation in India

21. FDI in retail

22. FDI will ruin the small scale industries of India

23. Too many Holidays Hamper our Pace of Progress

24. Poverty in India

25. Indian Budget is a Gamble on the Monsoons

26. In India when inflation rises govenance stalls.

27. Features of economic recession.

28. The risks of trading at the stock market.

Essay /GD topix: Globalization

29. The impact of interest rate changes on the economy.

30. IT sector boom in india.

31. Globalization would finish small-scale industries in india.

32. Economic growth without distributive justice is bound to breed violence.

33. Ecological considerations need not hamper development.

34. Multinational corporations – saviours or saboteurs

35. Special economic zone : boon or bane

36. Resource management in the Indian context.

37. Should a moratorium be imposed on all fresh mining in tribal areas of the

country?

38. Are our traditional handicrafts doomed to a slow death?

39. The focus of health care is increasingly getting skewed towards the ‘haves’ of our

society.

40. Urbanization is a blessing in disguise.

41. Public-Private-Partnership

42. Why are our farmers committing suicide?

43. To feed our increasing population , forest areas need to be cleared to increase

land area available for cultivation. Do you agree?

44. Cottage industries

45. Food security for sustainable national development

46. Indian Budget is a Gamble on the Monsoons

47. In India when inflation rises governance stalls.

48. Features of economic recession.

49. The risks of trading at the stock market.

50. The impact of interest rate changes on the economy.

51. Can India achieve Double digit GDP growth rate?

52. IMF and World bank

53. WTO

54. Black Money: its social and economic impacts

1. The masks of new imperialism.

2. As civilization advances culture declines.

3. The implications of globalization for India.

4. My vision of an ideal world order.

5. India’s contribution to world wisdom.

6. The world of the twenty-first century.

7. Preparedness of our society for India’s global leadership role.

8. The global order: political and economic

9. Good fences make good neighbors

10. Terrorism and world peace

11. India’s Defence Needs in a Technological Scenario

12. United Nations—Role and Future

13. On Good and Bad Neighbours

14. India as a global power

Essay /GD topix: Science Tech

15. Is India a Soft State?

16. Globalization and Multiculturalism

17. India’s relations with its neighbors

18. Relevance of United nations in Today’s world

19. Consequences of globalization

20. rise of China

21. my vision of ideal world

22. ‘globlisation’ vs. ‘ nationalism’

23. National identity and patriotism

24. Modernisation and westernization are not identical concepts.

I further classify them into four parts 1) Environment related 2) Computer/Information

Technology 3) Science tech as such 4) Science versus others

1. Sustainable Development and Environment

2. Pollution

3. Biodiversity

4. disaster management

5. Green activism

6. Drought : A Natural Calamity

7. Environmental Pollution

8. Wildlife Protection

9. Global Warming

10. The Need for Alternative Sources of Energy

11. Environment and Conservation

12. clean energy and sustainable Development

13. Modern world’s fears about nuclear energy.

14. Computers: A Silent Revolution

15. Information Revolution

16. Protection from Internet Abuse

17. Computer : A Boon or a Bane

18. India on Mars

19. India on Moon

20. Information Technology – Avenues and Opportunities

21. cyber security

22. Computers in Everyday Life

23. Internet as Virtual Library

24. Information Technology transforming the Indian Society.

25. Computer: the harbinger of silent revolution.

26. Increasing computerization would lead to the creation of a dehumanized society.

27. The cyberworld: its charms and challenges.

Essay /GD topix: Science vs others

28. Human Cloning – A Dangerous Invention

29. The modern doctor and his patients.

30. The technological miracles of the twentieth century

31. Contribution of Science to human progress

32. Science and human happiness

33. The lure of space.

34. HIV AIDS

35. Nanotechnology

36. Biotechnology

37. Science and Technology – Blessing or Curse?

38. Science Versus Religion

39. Man and Science – Development in Science and Technology

40. Superstitions

41. The Limits of Science

42. Science and Religion.

43. Inventions generate necessity.

44. Science: Blessing or Curse?

45. The Scientific attitude rather than science is the need of the day

46. Moral Dilemmas Inherent in Scientific Progress

47. Are science and art antithetical to each other?

48. Science and Literature

49. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind

50. Superstitions

51. Human Cloning

52. The march of science and the erosion of human values.

Democracy, Freedom related 1. Whither Indian democracy today?

2. Are traditional forms of protest no longer effective?

3. The predicaments of Democracy.

4. My motherland

5. Political reform you want in India

6. If I were the Prime Minister of India.

7. Water resources should be under the control of the central government.

8. The misinterpretation and misuse of freedom in india.

9. Politics without ethics is a disaster.

10. The vip culture is a bane of indian democracy

11. How far has democracy in india delivered the goods?

12. What we have not learnt during fifty years of independence.

13. Are we a ‘soft ’ state ?

14. What have we gained from our democratic set-up?

15. Paradoxes of Democracy

16. Democracy implies tolerance of dissent

Essay /GD topix: Corruption

17. The Role of Opposition in a Democracy

18. Elections—Lacunae and Remedies

19. casteism in India

20. Non-Violence

21. If the British had not colonised India…

22. Relevance of Gandhi Today

23. How free are we?

24. Democracy in India

25. The test of democracy is the freedom of criticism

26. Indians are non-violent by nature

27. Indians are not non-violent by nature

28. migration and regionalism

29. Election Reforms Versus Indian Democracy

30. Politics without Ethics

31. Caste Politics in Elections

32. Threats to India’s Unity

33. Democracy in Theory and Practice

34. Directive Principles of State Policy

35. Fundamental Rights – Bedrock of Indian Democracy

36. Communal Harmony VS Internal Security

37. Reservation in Private Sector

38. Coalition politics: boon or bane

39. do we need a Lokpal?

40. The Kashmir issue

41. Creation of smaller states and the consequent administrative , economic and

developmental implication.

42. Is autonomy the best answer to combat balkanization?

43. The language problem in india: its past, present and prospects.

1. Today’s politicians

2. Criminalization of Politics

3. Corruption in Public Life

4. Criminalisation of Politics

5. do we need CBI

6. lokpal

7. right to information

8. right to service

9. Right to Reject/Recall India

10. Can the Corruption be Eradicated from our Society

11. My Idea of an Administrator

12. How should a civil servant conduct himself?

13. Politics, bureaucracy and business – fatal triangle.

14. Need for police reforms in India

15. Election in India is the mother of all corruption.

Essay /GD topix: Judiciary / Law n Order

1. Role of Judiciary in a Democracy

2. Judicial Activism

3. Justice must reach the poor

4. Capital Punishment: favor or against

5. liquor prohibition

6. Should smoking be banned in public places?

7. Internal Security

8. Criminalization of Politics

9. Police Reforms

10. Terrorism in India & Global War against Terrorism

11. Criminalization of Politics

12. Terrorism in India.

13. “Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty”.

14. The Changing Face of Terrorism

15. Can Terrorism be Justified?

16. Crime : New Dimensions

17. Left wing extremism in India

18. Secessionist movements in India

19. In the Indian context , both human intelligence and technical intelligence are

crucial in combating terrorism

1. Should there be reservations?

2. Human Rights

3. Status of Human Rights in Independent India

4. Human Rights and the Armed Forces special protection Act

5. custodial torture

6. Should India implement one child policy

7. Child Labour

8. Child rights

9. Right to food

10. minority rights

11. Rights of the physically challenged

12. The Rights and Wrongs of Free Expression

13. social networking sites and freedom of speech

14. Reservation, politics and empowerment.

15. Euthanasia

16. Should Mercy-Killing be Legalized for Terminally ill Patients?

1. Tolerance is the key to national unity

2. Social Harmony vs. Communal Frenzy

3. religion and politics

4. New cults and godmen: a threat to traditional religion

Essay /GD topix: Development

5. True religion cannot be misused.

6. Politics and Religion

7. Communalism

8. The Rights and Wrongs of Conversion

9. The world needs more tolerance

1. People’s Participation in Development

2. Law as an Instrument of Social Change

3. Panchayati Raj and Rural Development

4. Evaluation of panchayati raj system in india from the point of view of eradication

of power to people.

5. India’s NGOs

6. Civil Society

1. The Changing Face of Indian Society

2. Changing Idea of Family

3. India Today

4. Road rage

5. Adulteration

6. problems of urbanization

7. India – A Tourist’s Paradise

8. Rural Development

9. Is vegetarianism a virtue ?

10. increasing consumerism in the middle class in India

11. Consequences of globalization on Indian society

12. India vs bharat

13. rural vs urban divide

14. challenges before urbanization

15. Urbanisation and its hazards

16. The indian society at the crossroads.

17. Why should we be proud of being indians?

18. Should the Prostitution be Legalized?

19. Gays should be Accepted Gracefully

1. Indian Culture

2. Tourism in India

3. Indian culture today: a myth or a reality?

4. Modernism and our traditional socio-ethical values.

5. The composite culture of india.

6. Globalizations and its impact on indian culture.

1. Advertising and Social Responsibility

2. Indian Cinema and Social Responsibility

Essay /GD topix: Philosophical / Abstract type essays

3. Television and Teenage Violence

4. Challenge Before Television in India

5. Media Freedom and Individual Privacy

6. Can television affect society?

7. Role of Newspaper

8. Role of Visual Media in Socity

9. Yellow Journalism

10. Violence and Vulgarity in Films

11. Power of the press

12. Responsibility of media in moulding public opinion.

13. Advertisements : need for control

14. Role of media in good governance

15. media trials: good or bad?

16. role of media in national integration

17. breaking news

18. Mass media and cultural invasion.

19. Does indian cinema shape our popular culture or merely reflect it

20. How has satellite television brought about cultural change in indian mindsets.

21. Responsibility of media in a democracy.

22. Foreign Media in India : Any Cause for Concern?

1. There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

2. Search for truth can only be a spiritual problem.

3. Spirituality and scientific temper.

4. Compassion is the basic of all morality

5. The pursuit of excellence.

6. What freedom means to me

7. Your idea of a happy life

8. Importance of a Work-Ethics

9. Material Progress and Human Values

10. Laughter, Truth, and Universality

11. Have We Lost the Direction ?

12. An encounter with an astrologer

13. Morality and Law

1. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

2. Truth is lived, not taught

3. History repeats itself

4. History needs to be rewritten

5. The Child is the Father of Man

6. Compassion is the basis of all morality

7. The road to happiness is always under construction

8. Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds

9. Truth may be eclipsed but not extinguished

Essay /GD topix: Youth Education and Sports

10. No one knows what he can do till he tries

11. The great end of life is not knowledge but action

12. Failures are the pillars of success

13. “Cowards die many times before their death”.

14. Man is saved not by faith but by work

15. Laughter is the best medicine

16. Knowledge is power

17. ‘All That Glitters Is Not Gold’

18. Discipline means success , anarchy means ruin

19. Geography may remain the same ; history need not.

20. Attitude makes, habit makes character and character makes a man.

21. Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the lifeblood of civilisation.

22. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

23. Useless life is an early death.

24. He would reigns within himself and folds his passions and desires and fears is

more than a king.

25. “Sweet are the uses of adversity.”

1. The Problems of Old Age

2. Menace of Ragging in India

3. Generation Gap

4. The tragedy of old age is not that one is old but that one is young

5. Commercialization of sports has degraded of sportsmanship

6. Menace of Drug Addition

7. An ideal college

8. An ideal college

9. Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, oldage a regret

10. If youth knew, if age could.

11. Youth culture today.

1. Education in India—Lacunae and Remedies

2. Commercialization of Education

3. Privatisation of Education: Solution to Resource Crunch

4. Examinations are a necessary evil

5. Pleasures of Reading

6. India’s Examination System needs to be Overhauled.

7. Student politics in India

8. Importance of Wearing Uniform in Schools

9. right to education

10. pressure of competition is ruining the childhood

11. Should Students be Allowed to Grade their Teachers?

12. Modern technological education and human values.

Essay /GD topix: Sports

13. Credit – based higher education system – status , opportunities and challenges

14. “Education for all” campaign in india: myth or reality.

15. Privatization of higher education in india.

16. Irrelevance of the classroom.

17. Value-based science and education.

18. Is an egalitarian society possible by educating the masses ?

19. Independent thinking should be encouraged right form the childhood.

20. Restructuring of Indian education system.

21. Literacy is growing very fast, but there is no corresponding growth in education.

22. What is real education?

23. Education is Freedom

24. Why Ban English?

25. The ways to enrich our regional languages.

1. Sports sans Sportsmanship

2. Ethics in Sports

3. Future of Sports in India

4. Need to check politicization of sports bodies in India

5. Value of yoga

6. India and Olympics

7. Need to check politicization of sports bodies in India