Section A (society, media, knowledge, culture)
- Noise vs. Knowledge: truth in the age of social media
- Comfort as a trap
- Free press and its responsibilities
- Future of indigenous languages of North-East India
Section B (governance, technology, region, wellbeing)
5. Need for unplugging digital connect in order to reconnect
6. Waste management: India’s everyday governance challenge
7. The perennial crisis of floods in Assam
8. Depression and work life
Key Trends
- Digital life dominates. Topics 1, 3 and 5 all deal with media, information and technology. The theme is not praise of technology but its costs: misinformation, attention, disconnection.
- Abstract, reflective topics are back. “Comfort as a trap” is philosophical and open-ended, which suits aspirants who can build a thesis with examples rather than recite facts.
- Assam and North-East relevance is steady. Floods (7) and indigenous languages (4) are regional anchors. Floods are a near-perennial in APSC essays, so they are a high-probability area.
- Governance as everyday problem-solving. Waste management is framed as a “daily governance challenge”, not a policy abstract. Expect questions that ask how institutions deliver at ground level.
- Human and wellbeing angle. Depression and work life reflects the shift toward mental health, workplace culture and modern lifestyle stress.
- Balanced choice. Each section mixes one regional or governance topic, one tech or media topic, and one reflective or social topic, so every aspirant has a “safe” option.
Takeaways for Future Preparation
- Prepare 3-4 reusable frameworks (cause, impact, governance gap, way forward).
- Keep a bank of Assam-specific data and examples (floods, erosion, Brahmaputra, language policy, Kaziranga).
- Practise both factual and philosophical essays.
- Always add the human, ethical and sustainability dimension.
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