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Mains Prelims

Q7 · UPPSC PCS Mains 2024 · Essay · 50 marks · ~700 words in the hall · 1 min read

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India's rising popularity on the international platform.

Topic: National and international events. Syllabus: Section C — National and International Events; Natural Calamities; National Development programmes and projects. Same official PYQ from year-wise 2024 and National and international events.

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Essay map

Opening scene

Anecdote

A packed diaspora hall and a UN vote that still went another way. Popularity on a platform is a mood. International standing is a file. The topic invites a cheer. Write a cheer with a spine. Popularity on a platform is a trend-line. India’s rise is a deed a neighbour felt — a vaccine, a student, a vote that was not rented.

Keep this in every paragraph

One stand

  • Soft power: yoga, a cinema, a food. Hard: a economy, a border. 2024: elections-year cool, no party.

Turn each heading into a full paragraph in the hall

Heading map

What the line is asking

  • Rising: a trend. Popularity: attention. Platform: UN, a media, a summit.

Mood / file

  • A digital India story. A human-rights question that also trends.

The counter

Popularity as a TV rating of foreign policy. A neighbour who did not feel the popularity.

Deed, not a trend

  • G20, a diaspora, a cinema — soft power.
  • Popularity without a drain at home is a feed.
  • Deed: a credit line, a disaster team, a chair that shared a digital public good.
  • Swagger is not consciousness.

Drop one peg where it fits — not a data dump

Value addition

  • Diaspora / OCI A popularity channel.
  • G20 / UN Platforms.
  • UPI abroad cousin A product as soft power.
  • LAC / neighbourhood The file popularity does not dissolve.
  • Vaccine memory A 2021–24 echo — one line.

Last 8–10 lines in the exam

Last paragraph

India’s rising popularity on the international platform is a camera and a deed. A G20 night, a diaspora, a film — these are a trend-line. A vaccine that left, a student who was not humiliated, a neighbour who got a line of credit — these are a rise. A speech that skips a drain at home is performance. Close on a deed, not a trend-line. Popularity that cannot survive a queue is only a feed.

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  • Full 700-word essay?

    No. Map only. In the hall, grow each heading; write in English or Hindi, not both.

  • Tone?

    IR, cool. One hall, one vote. Not a cheerleading essay.

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