Model essays
- Trust is a better tax collector than fear.
Essay · Section A · 9 October 2026
- Handedness: small asymmetries, patiently amplified, decide great outcomes.
Essay · Section B · 8 October 2026
- The mirror and the window: institutions that cannot see themselves cannot serve others.
Essay · Section A · 7 October 2026
- What a society is willing to wait for tells you what it truly values.
Essay · Section B · 6 October 2026
- A decision is only as legitimate as the reasons its maker is willing to give.
Essay · Section A · 5 October 2026
- It takes more courage to end a war than to begin one.
Essay · Section A · 3 October 2026
- The road you take decides where you arrive.
Essay · Section B · 2 October 2026
- A State is only as good as the clerk who meets the citizen.
Essay · Section A · 1 October 2026
- The absence of dissent is not the presence of consent.
Essay · Section A · 30 September 2026
- Scarcity does not create conflict; it reveals how we share.
Essay · Section B · 29 September 2026
- A rumour only has to be believed; the truth has to be proved.
Essay · Section A · 29 September 2026
- What uniformity gains in yield, it loses in resilience.
Essay · Section B · 28 September 2026
- Conscience is a private voice with public obligations.
Essay · Section A · 28 September 2026
- The work that holds the world together is the work no one sees.
Essay · Section B · 26 September 2026
- What the State counts, it comes to govern.
Essay · Section A · 26 September 2026
- A privilege that outlives its purpose becomes an injustice.
Essay · Section B · 25 September 2026
- Security of tenure protects the office, not the officer.
Essay · Section A · 25 September 2026
- Knowledge belongs to all; the means of knowing, to a few.
Essay · Section B · 24 September 2026
- An umpire is trusted not because he is always right, but because he belongs to no side.
Essay · Section A · 24 September 2026
- The hand that feeds is often the last to be fed.
Essay · Section B · 23 September 2026
- Obedience can be commanded; loyalty has to be earned.
Essay · Section A · 23 September 2026
- What belongs to everyone is cared for by no one.
Essay · Section B · 22 September 2026
- A free society is best measured by how it treats the people it suspects.
Essay · Section A · 22 September 2026
- Dependence is not the danger; not knowing where it lies is.
Essay · Section B · 21 September 2026
- A rule proves its worth on the day it is inconvenient.
Essay · Section A · 21 September 2026
- The question 'Is this drug safe?' cannot be answered by the state alone; it requires a coalition of the state, the market, and civil society.
Essay · Section A · 19 September 2026
- Indian federalism has never been about giving states unlimited autonomy; it has always been about distributing coercive power fairly.
Essay · Section A · 19 September 2026
- The tools we reach for decide the problems we believe we have.
Essay · Section B · 18 September 2026
- A document is only as true as the institution that issues it.
Essay · Section A · 18 September 2026