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A huge thanks to everyone who turned up for the workshop. I enjoyed the interaction with you all. Some of you stayed on after the class too and it was great to talk to you, figure out issues you are facing and your struggles.

I'm absolutely thrilled at the opportunity to help you all in any way I can. As I said, if 20 of you respond to the assignments, I'll feedback on 20. Hope that you find the guidance helpful.

As always, ask questions. If I know more about the problems you are facing, I can help in a more direct and effective way.

Some of you wanted a reading list. I'll share it in a day or two. As a start, let's start with some Indian philosophers

Amartya Sen
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Swami Vivekananda
BR Ambedkar
Vedic / Vedantic
Gautama Buddha

I'll keep sending you short digests that you can consume soon.

Good luck and the very wishes from me for your essay and UPSC journey

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Students, here's a reading list of top 10 philosophers with their key works, focusing on ideas relevant for UPSC essay writing (ethics, governance, society, existentialism, and human rights).

1. Socrates (469–399 BCE)
Key Work: No written works (known through Plato’s Dialogues)
Relevance: Ethics, questioning, justice, and the role of the individual in society.

2. Aristotle (384–322 BCE)
Key Work: Nicomachean Ethics
Relevance: Virtue ethics, happiness (eudaimonia), and political theory.

3. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
Key Work: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Relevance: Individualism, will to power, critique of morality, and rejection of herd mentality.

4. Albert Camus (1913–1960)
Key Work: The Myth of Sisyphus
Relevance: Absurdism, meaning of life, rebellion, and existential crisis.

5. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980)
Key Work: Existentialism is a Humanism
Relevance: Freedom, responsibility, and existential choices.

6. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986)
Key Work: Freedom from the Known
Relevance: Self-awareness, breaking societal conditioning, and personal transformation.

7. Noam Chomsky (1928–present)
Key Work: Manufacturing Consent
Relevance: Media, propaganda, democracy, and critical thinking.

8. John Rawls (1921–2002)
Key Work: A Theory of Justice
Relevance: Justice, fairness, and social contract theory.

9. Karl Marx (1818–1883)
Key Work: The Communist Manifesto
Relevance: Class struggle, capitalism, and economic justice.

10. B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956)
Key Work: Annihilation of Caste
Relevance: Social justice, caste abolition, and equality in governance.

This list covers Western, Indian, and contemporary thinkers

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Assignment 30 summary: Life is a long journey from being human to being humane!

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Assignment 31 Summary : Values are not what humanity is, but what humanity ought to be!

Assignment 32 - summary

Assignment 32: The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world