Our attitudes towards life, work, other people and society are generally shaped unconsciously by the family and social surroundings in which we grow up. Some of these unconsciously acquired attitudes and values are often undesirable in the citizens of modern democratic and egalitarian society. (a) Discuss such undesirable values prevalent in today’s educated Indians. (b) How can such undesirable attitudes be changed and socio-ethical values be cultivated in the aspiring and serving civil servants?
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On September 27, 2026, Ashutosh Ranka and a team from the non-governmental organization Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) were detained by authorities in Guwahati, Assam. The incident occurred while the team was purportedly engaged in a fact-finding mission to assess the ground-level conditions of educational institutions in the state. The detention has reignited a critical discourse regarding the operational independence of civil society organizations, the boundaries of state authority in restricting movement, and the perceived antagonism between administrative narratives of development and independent investigative efforts by NGOs.