1. Home
  2. Chronicle Essay Competition!

CHRONICLE ESSAY COMPETITION, published in the CSC English Magazine is an initiative to give our readers a chance to test their essay writing skills and win a prize money of Rs. 1000/-. Many readers across the country have shown interest and have been participating in the competition for several years now. The best essay gets published in the magazine and on the website every month.

Monika Dash (Nalco Nagar, Angul, Odisha)
IAS
Monika Dash (Nalco Nagar, Angul, Odisha)

Winner Of CSC June 2021 Essay Competition

The Idea of Self-Reliant India

The basic thrust for any species around the world is to make their offspring self-reliant. The birds teach their nestlings to spread the wings and gather food, human teach their young ones from birth till the time they are old enough to earn a living by providing them food, shelter, education, and guidance all through the growing age. This pattern is followed among families, communities, societies, and nations at large. Today the whole world is facing unprecedented turmoil – the Covid19 pandemic that has made the people and resources around the world struggle collectively with disruption of essential supply chains, crumbling economies, and a grim job. India, with its basic e
Jnandeep Bora
IAS
Jnandeep Bora

Winner Of CSC March 2020 15th Essay Competition

Role of Media in Good Governance

The role of media is important for any modern country because it may be termed as the very mirror of the various facets of its society. These various facets also include the facet of good governance. In the specific context of a modern democracy, good governance may in the long run, turn out to be the game changer as far as the destiny of a modern citizen of a present day democratic nation is concerned. Therefore, it would not be an exaggeration to analyze and interpret the role of media in the specific context of a modern democracy from the point of view of good governance. The role of media in promoting good governance is
Bindiya Patankar
IAS
Bindiya Patankar

Winner Of CSC February 2020 14th Essay Competition

Is India Facing a Moral or an Economic Crisis?

We are proud Indians but not blind ones. Something’s not right and we know it. Today India is going through a crisis and we can’t ignore it pretending it to be a phase.With all mob-lynching, rapes, economic slowdown, we cannot move towards the trillion dollars economy dream fantasizing that these are just bumps on road. There is clearly an evil that needs to be tackled down by getting at its roots. But what is it we are fighting? Is it an economic crisis or a moral one? As a nation what are we up against?Some say it is the economic crisis we are facing. With GDP growth for last quarter sinking down below 5%, unemployment
Animesh Kumar
IAS
Animesh Kumar

Winner Of CSC December 2019 12th Essay Competition

Role of India in Changing the Global World Order

Strolling through the dusty, musty, dirt ridden, cobbled, vine covered, brick laden, concrete layered, and often tarmacked streets of India,one can see development sprawling and sprouting on the horizon. The Indian economy and communal space much like these assorted avenues is a complex mixture of crude and comprehensive. The multidimensional exposure that India receives because of its ethnic diversity and a gargantuan population has over time catapulted India onto the world stage. India is now in the race to reclaim its former glory and prestige. As it tries to purge itself form the sizable stains of poverty and precarious social order,the International forum
Tiya Singh
IAS
Tiya Singh

Winner Of CSC November 2019 11th Essay Competition

Poverty Anywhere is a Threat to Prosperity Everywhere

In a post-globalised world order, humanity rests on imbricated systems of trade, economy, the environment and a massive, ever- expanding flow of ideas. In such a scenario, poverty threatens the very foundations of this fragile world order. Various economic research studies point toward a recent trend in increasing income inequalities within nations, as marked by the standardised measure of inequality known as the ‘Gini Coefficient’, especially over the past few decades. However, it is important to remember that the consequences of living in grossly unequal societies with millions living in poverty, goes beyond the perspective that mere economic denominator
Alefiya Lokhandwala
IAS
Alefiya Lokhandwala

Winner Of CSC October 2019 10th Essay Competition

Deepfakes – Menace on AI based Creations

Winner: Alefiya Lokhandwala “Deep dark monsters loom in the dark,Along the pathways and Recesses that perhaps a few might embark. Evil hidden in plain sight,Hideous masks shunning the right.” The world we live in today has witnessed drastic technological advancements, more so in the last few decades than, in perhaps, the last century. Yet the blade that still hangs on our necks is: Is our species ready for the scientific innovations that have swung by us through the millennia?In recent years AI based applications have received a tidal wave of new upgrades and developments. Acknowledgin
Mah Tilat Tayyab
IAS
Mah Tilat Tayyab

Winner Of CSC September 2019 Essay Competition

Data is the New Currency of the World

Data seems to have become the holy grail of everything “DIGITAL”. Many experts extoll the significance of data in today’s world by calling it the most important currency of the times we live in. Every business, every organization, every government scheme seems to hinge its decisions, marketing and operations on the data involved. As per the TCS global trend study of 2015, the IoT (Internet of Things) owed its growth to the customer data that was available. The study extolled how customer data was key to delivering custom made products, better customer service, razor sharp targeted marketing and so on, which begs the question, “What is data that give
Amrita Brahmo
IAS
Amrita Brahmo

Winner Of CSC July 2019 Essay Competition

Good Fences Make Good Neighbours

If we were to take a leap back to the early 20th century when Robert Frost penned this ubiquitous truth, we would find ourselves in a world where walls were both towering and crumbling. On the brink of the first World War, every major power was jealously guarding the last square inch of their existing territory even as it sought to outpace its contemporaries in acquiring newer domains. As the world map faced imminent rearrangement, the sentiment of neighbourly niceties embodied in the Bible was subsumed by shrewd alliances for strategic gain and national interest.Cut to the present day, and despite mankind’s great leaps in
Showing 11-20 of 29 items.