Text taken verbatim from the commission's published question paper. Transcribed from UPSC’s question paper, CS(M) 2020 (English and Hindi). Source

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Essay · Society, Culture & Social Justice

Indian society, culture and values, poverty and social justice, media, cinema and literature, youth.

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