The Word Meritocracy Began as a Warning
The man who made the word famous meant it as a satire. A look at his warning, at India's long argument over merit and reservation, and at what deserving can mean.
GRADFLIX Editors · Hard
Political Philosophy passages for CAT RC
Power, justice, liberty and the state, argued from first principles.
4 long-form political philosophy 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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Freedom Is Not the Absence of Limits but the Choice of Them
In the Odyssey the hero orders his crew to tie him to a mast so that he can hear a song that has killed every sailor before him. The knots look like the end of freedom, and the story has been used for three thousand years to argue that they are its proof.
Abhishek Leela Pandey · Hard
The Communist Manifesto: An RC Inspired by IIM Indore
The Manifesto was written in six weeks by two men in their twenties. It inspired revolutions on four continents. The question is not whether its argument is correct. It is why the argument works so well.
Abhishek Leela Pandey4 Qs
Why Revolutions Eventually Resemble the Regimes They Destroy
A political philosophy essay exploring why revolutions slowly resemble the regimes they overthrow through power, control and ideology.
Abhishek Leela Pandey4 Qs