Progress & Modernity passages for CAT RC

Whether history moves forward, and what modern life has cost and gained.

1 long-form progress & modernity essays, written at the density of real CAT passages, each with CAT, XAT and GMAT-style questions and explanations. For real exam passages, practise the solved CAT RC PYQs; for a daily routine, see CAT RC practice.

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Progress & Modernity6 min

The Optimist in Hiding and the Century That Answered Him

A hunted man wrote the most confident book about human improvement in March 1794. Malthus, two world wars and the Indian Constitution have each answered it since, and none has closed the argument.

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