GD Topic: The Age of Information

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The Topic to be discussed is "The Age of Information"

The following points could be discussed under this topic:

Intro: Today a plethora of sources to provide information-Newspapers, radio, Television, Internet etc. Information available at the touch of a button.

Access To One and All: Today the information is available to one and all unlike what it were a few decades back.

Internal Security Troubles: Much of the information that is crucial for the National Security is at trouble because of the advancements in the Information processing and Mining technologies.

Freedom of Speech: With the innovative information transfer methods such as the Blogging, every one has an equal chance to trade their information.

Information Freedom: Greater decision making power to the individual. Also easier decision making for the individual.Information is the key to ones success today. One who is more informed forges ahead. The flip side-information overkill. At times deciding is tough due to too much information

Information Distortion: With the information becoming available to every one, chances are that a few of the individuals will not use it in the way it is intended to be. This torsion can be of any kind, Cyber Terrorism, Hacking, Phishing etc.

Hoaxes: The possibility is also that many of the hoaxes can be spread fast. Eg. The bad health rumor of Steve Jobs of Apple computers ultimately lead to a Stock Crash in NYSE.


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GD Topic: What ails Indian sports?

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The Topic to be discussed is "What ails Indian sports? "

The following points could be discussed under this topic:

Talk some Intro: A nation of 950 million, we fail to produce great champions barring the occasional Vishwanathan Anand or Geet Sethi.

Bureaucracy: Bureaucracy in Sports system steeped in bureaucracy.

Influence of Cricket: Overriding popularity of cricket leading to neglect in other sports.Traditionally , sports not accorded much importance by us as a career.

Tap the Sports Persons Young: Need to develop sports from the primary school level-"catch em young". Various incentives to be given to budding sportsmen like academic credits, sports in lieu of a few other subjects etc.

Infrastructure: Development of sports infrastructure, making it amenable and affordable

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GD Topic: Education in India-or the lack of it

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The Topic to be discussed is "Education in India-or the lack of it"

The following points could be discussed under this topic:

Give an Intro: Discuss current education system.

Sociological Structure: Discuss our sociological structure.Poverty which forces kids to drop out to supplement family income.

Poverty andVicious Circle: Vicious circle-poverty due to lack of education and vice versa.

Suggest solutions: Suggest solutions to get out of this-for e.g., governments are doing a commendable job with the midday meal schemes but we need more of such efforts.

Innovate your Solutions: Going down further , why restrict it to government alone? why cant private people, NGOs and other voluntary bodies come forward to do the same? How about tapping corporate funds for such causes

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Is India moving away from a secularist state?

The following is the gist of ideas for the topic "Is India moving away from a secularist state? "


The following points could be discussed under this topic:



The following points could be discussed under this topic:

Define secularism: Talk about the dictionary defenition of secularism

Constitution of India: Constitution calls our country such a state, but how things have changed over the last 50 years.

Spread of nationalism. Division into majority and minority groups-e.g. benefits given to minority groups perceived as a threat by others. Role of non-tolerant neighbors in fuelling fundamentalism.

Examples: Talk about the rise and fall of Hitler and the Nazi ideology.

Show a brigher side of things: It is a passing phenomenon. We have the national character to overcome this. Points along these lines can be discussed.

GD Topic: Does India need a dictator?

The following is the gist of ideas for the topic "Does India need a dictator? "


The following points could be discussed under this topic:



The current political structure. Drawbacks of it. Talk about the slothness of the system. Corner the other guys towards how innefective the system is in providing swift reactions to the matters of utmost importance.

Bureaucracy: Talk about the layers in decision making and why Bureaucracy cannot be afforded in a globalized world.

Positive Points about Dictatorship: Dictatorship would mean centralized power and faster decision making.

The decessions that are halted of sentmental value can be dealt with iron hand.

The external enemies can be dealt with iron fist.

Negative Points about Dictatorship: A country run on whims and fancies of an individual.

Freedom on individuals could be clamped


PS: Present a balanced argument for and against and take up your position on the issue.

GD Topic: Is coalition politics here to stay?

The following is the gist of ideas for the topic "Is coalition politics here to stay?"


The following points could be discussed under this topic:

Nature of coalition politics: Speak about the nature of the political parties that involve in such activities.

Indecisiveness of elections: No particular party is getting the peoples mandate.
Advantage of coalition politics in enabling formation of government.

Flip side of coalition politics: A party with a handful of seats become powerful. Several instances where the basic rights of people have been denied by the government.

Government falls before tenure; Fresh elections each time. Hence the wastage of public money

Suggest a way out of this problem: Something like, once a party pledges support to a coalition, it will not withdraw its support until it has watched a governments performance for at least three years The future -will it only have coalitions ,emerging political trends