- · Is China a threat to the Indian software industry.
· Role of UN in peacekeeping.
· Position of Women in India compared to other nations.
· Environment Management.
· Is China better than India in software.
· Govt contribution to IT
· is china a threat to Indian industry
· India or west , which is the land of opportunities
· water resources should be nationalised
· BALANCE BETWEEN PROFESSIONALISM AND FAMILY
· Effect of cinema on Youth
· Education in India compared to Foreign nations
· What is the effect of movies on youth. is it good or bad
· Are studies more beneficial in India or in Abroad.
· UN's peace activities and America's war on Iraq. Environment-Whose Responsibility.
· US war on iraq-justified or not.
· Role of UN in Peace keeping
· War on Iraq
· About Hockey being the primary game in India.
· Can America occupy Iraq
· IS CHINA A THREAT TO INDIA
· Present state of Indian Cricket team
· Advantages of Co-education.
· How to deal with international terrorism.
· Should we pursue our policy of dialogue with Pakistan?
· Is peace and non-violence outdated concepts?
· A Unipolar World spells disaster for underdeveloped countries like India.
· Is Globalization Really Necessary?
· What shall we do about our ever-increasing Population?
· Corruption is the price we pay for Democracy.
· Foreign Television Channels are destroying our culture.
· What India needs is a Dictatorship.
· With media publishing and telecasting trivia, censorship is the need of the hour.
· Kaun Banega Krorepati is less about knowledge but more about money and personality.
· Beauty contests degrade womanhood
· The rise of regional blocs threatens independent nations like India
· Six billion and one bronze!
· Is dependence on computers a good thing?
· Should the public sector be privatised?
· China and India are similar nations with contrasting ways
· Is India a Soft Nation?
· Value based politics is the need of the hour
· Religion should not be mixed with politics
· How to deal with high oil prices
· Our cricketers are not to blame for match fixing
· Why cant we be world players in industry as we are in software?
· Multinational corporations: Are they devils in disguise?
· Should there be limits on artistic freedom (the controversy on Fire).
· Should there be private universities?
· Does banning fashion shows and New Year parties save our culture?
· Public sector is more a hindrance than help to promote socialism.
· Economic betterment of the poorer nations is as important as disarmament to ensure lasting world peace.
· From public sector to privatization as in the U.K., is the right answer for India's instant economic breakthrough.
· The doctrine of "limited nuclear war" is an ill-convinced, ill- logical, irrational and extremely dangerous concept.
· Some simple but effective electoral reforms will enable us to retain the present parliamentary system and ensure the preservation of democracy in India.
· Nuclear war cannot be won and should not be fought.
· Private enterprise and not public sector will contribute to faster and higher economic growth in India
· Inflation is inevitable in our developing country.
· The policy of reservation is a legacy of the British and it has done more harm than good.
· For a marketing post graduate, without prior work experience working in a big marketing firm is a disadvantage when compared with working in a small firm. Discuss.
· Consumerism is destroying the social fabric of Indian culture
· Free market is a prerequisite for growth.
· Cricket as a national obsession is a detriment to other sports.
· To develop India has to empower women.
· .Formulate the government's health policy to control the spread of AIDS.
· Advertising is a waste of resources.
· Privatization will lead to less corruption.
· State is the biggest violator of human rights.
· There can never be a classless society.
· Beauty pageants are a marketing gimmick.
· Voting rights to illiterates in India is illogical because it is widely misused.
· Joint family is a blessing in disguise
· Higher education should be made possible only for those who can pay for it.
· Women cannot successfully combine both career and home
· Women are good managers.
· Executive should be allowed to form unions.
· Effect of liberalization on poverty.
· Indians perform better as individuals rather than in groups.
· Business and ethics go hand in hand, or do they?
· Developing countries should spend more on development than on defense.
· Political parties have outlived their utility.
· Is Swadeshi relevant for India today?
· Money is required to earn more money.
· Foreign trade is necessary for any country to survive
· Presidential Vs Parliamentary form of government of India.
· Technology: The Ism' Of The New Millennium?
· Religion And Politics Should Not Mix
· TRIPS Controversy And The Patent Act Amendment
· Should India Sign The CTBT
· State Interventions In Market Kind Or Mixed Economy
· Science Is A Boon Or Bane
· Is Swapping Terrorists For Hostages An Encouragement For Plane- Hijackers?
· Nice Guys Finish Last
· All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy
· Individual Freedom And Civil Society
· Conventionalism And Modernity: The Ever going Debate
· Should There Be A Restriction On Permissiveness Being propagated by The MTV Culture And Foreign Media?
· Marxism And Its Future All Over The World
· The Growing Menace Of Casteism And Regionalism
· Presidential Form Of Government Is Needed In India
· Bullet For Bullet: Is It The Right Policy?
· Capitation Fees Should Be Abolished
· Brain-Drain Has To Be Stopped
· Business And Ethics Can't / Don't Go Together
· Are women As good as Men Or Inferior?
· Nothing Succeeds Like Success
· The Malthusian Economic Prophecy Is No Longer Relevant
· Secessionism In The North-East: Who's To Blame?
· Should India Break Diplomatic Ties With Pakistan?
· Age and Youth: Experience And Young Talent
· East Is East & West Is Where All The Action Is': Mark Twain
· Freedom Of _Expression And The State Authority.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Engineering GD Topics
Current GD Topics
- · A Unipolar World spells disaster for underdeveloped countries like India
· Is Globalization Really Necessary?
· What shall we do about our ever-increasing Population?
· Corruption is the price we pay for Democracy
· Foreign Television Channels are destroying our culture
· With media publishing and telecasting trivia, censorship is the need of the hour.
· Beauty contests degrade womanhood
· The rise of regional blocs threatens independent nations like India
· Is dependence on computers a good thing?
· Should the public sector be privatized?
· China and India are similar nations with contrasting ways
· Is India a Soft Nation?
· Value based politics is the need of the hour
· Religion should not be mixed with politics
· How to deal with high oil prices
· Our cricketers are not to blame for match fixing
· Why can’t we be world players in industry as we are in software?
· Multinational corporations: Are they devils in disguise?
· Should there be private universities?
· Does banning fashion shows and New Year parties save our culture
BPO GD Topics
- · Is coalition politics here to stay?
· Does India need a dictator?
· What ails Indian sports?
· Success is all about human relations
· Borderless worlds - Dream or reality?
· Quality is a myth in India
· Will China overtake India in IT
· India - the back office to the world by 2020
· Does Indian IT industry need to focus on products rather than services
· The BPO age - heralding a new employment revolution
· The BPO revolution and its impact on the society
· Education and success - Is there a correlation?
· We don't learn from history, we repeat it
· Do we need a global policeman?
· Indian villages - our strength or our weakness?
· Management Education - Is it necessary to succeed in business
· Kids today are not what they used to be
· Repeated elections - Who should pay for them
· Indian bureaucracy - foundation strengths or colonial hangovers?
· In India, the whole is less than the parts - Do we lack in team spirit?
· "Dot.com" companies - Is there room for everyone?
· Artificial Intelligence - Will man be ever replaced by machines?
· Materialism - Have we sold our souls to the Devil?
· Role of ethics in tobacco industry, liquor industry etc.
· Are we unfit for Democracy?
· Survival tools for the new millennium
· Examinations - has it killed education
· Should doctors be tried in Consumer Courts
· Is E-Commerce the best thing for India
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
GD Tips
1. Initiation Techniques
2. Body of the group discussion
3. Conclusion
1.Initiation Techniques
· Initiating a GD is a high profit-high loss strategy.When you initiate a GD, you not only grab the opportunity to speak, you also grab the attention of the examiner and your fellow candidates.If you can make a favourable first impression with your content and communication skills after you initiate a GD, it will help you sail through the discussion. If you initiate a GD impeccably but don't speak much after that, it gives the impression that you started the GD for the sake of starting it or getting those initial kitty of points earmarked for an initiator.When you start a GD, you are responsible for putting it into the right perspective or framework. So initiate one only if you have in depth knowledge about the topic at hand.
2.Body of the group discussion
Different techniques to initiate a GD and make a good first impression:
i. Quotes
ii.Definition
iii. Question
iv. Shock statement
v. Facts, figures and statistics
vi. Short story
vii. General statementi.
i.Quotes
Quotes are an effective way of initiating a GD.
If the topic of a GD is: Should the Censor Board be abolished? you could start with a quote like, Hidden apples are always sweet.
ii. Definition
Start a GD by defining the topic or an important term in the topic.
For example, if the topic of the GD is Advertising is a Diplomatic Way of Telling a Lie, why not start the GD by defining advertising as, Any paid form of non personal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods or services through mass media like newspapers, magazines, television or radio by an identified sponsor
iii. Question
Asking a question is an impact way of starting a GD.It does not signify asking a question to any of the candidates in a GD so as to hamper the flow.
It implies asking a question, and answering it yourself. Questions that promote a flow of ideas are always appreciated.
For a topic like, Should India go to war with Pakistan, you could start by asking, What does war bring to the people of a nation? We have had four clashes with Pakistan. The pertinent question is what have we achieved?
iv. Shock statement
Initiating a GD with a shocking statement is the best way to grab immediate attention and put forth your point.
If a GD topic is, The Impact of Population on the Indian Economy, you could start with, At the centre of the Indian capital stands a population clock that ticks away relentlessly. It tracks 33 births a minute, 2,000 an hour, 48,000 a day. Which calculates to about 12 million every year. That is roughly the size of Australia. As a current political slogan puts it, Nothing's impossible when 1 billion Indians work together.
v. Facts, figures and statistics
If you decide to initiate your GD with facts, figure and statistics, make sure to quote them accurately.Approximation is allowed in macro level figures, but micro level figures need to be correct and accurate.
For example, you can say, approximately 70 per cent of the Indian population stays in rural areas (macro figures, approximation allowed).But you cannot say 30 states of India instead of 28 (micro figures, no approximations).Stating wrong facts works to your disadvantage.
vi. Short story
Use a short story in a GD topic like, Attitude is Everything.
This can be initiated with,A child once asked a balloon vendor, who was selling helium gas filled balloons, whether a blue colored balloon will go as high in the sky as a greencolored balloon. The balloon vendor told the child, it is not the color of the balloon but what is inside it that makes it go high.
vii. General statement
Use a general statement to put the GD in proper perspective.
For example, if the topic is, Should Sonia Gandhi be the prime minister of India? you could start by saying, Before jumping to conclusions like, Yes, Sonia Gandhi should be, or No, Sonia Gandhi should not be, let's first find out the qualities one needs to be a a good prime minister of India. Then we can compare these qualities with those that Mrs. Gandhi possesses.
This will help us reach the conclusion in a more objective and effective manner.
3.Summarization/ Conclusion
· Most GD do not really have conclusions. A conclusion is where the whole group decides in favor or against the topic.
· But every GD is summarized. You can summaries what the group has discussed in the GD in a nutshell.Keep the following points in mind while summarizing a discussion:
1. Avoid raising new points.
2. Avoid stating only your viewpoint.
3. Avoid dwelling only on one aspect of the GD.
4. Keep it brief and concise.
5. It must incorporate all the important points that came out during the GD.
6. If the examiner asks you to summaries a GD, it means the GD has come to an end.
7. Do not add anything once the GD has been summarized.
2. Body of the group discussion
3. Conclusion
1.Initiation Techniques
· Initiating a GD is a high profit-high loss strategy.When you initiate a GD, you not only grab the opportunity to speak, you also grab the attention of the examiner and your fellow candidates.If you can make a favourable first impression with your content and communication skills after you initiate a GD, it will help you sail through the discussion. If you initiate a GD impeccably but don't speak much after that, it gives the impression that you started the GD for the sake of starting it or getting those initial kitty of points earmarked for an initiator.When you start a GD, you are responsible for putting it into the right perspective or framework. So initiate one only if you have in depth knowledge about the topic at hand.
2.Body of the group discussion
Different techniques to initiate a GD and make a good first impression:
i. Quotes
ii.Definition
iii. Question
iv. Shock statement
v. Facts, figures and statistics
vi. Short story
vii. General statementi.
i.Quotes
Quotes are an effective way of initiating a GD.
If the topic of a GD is: Should the Censor Board be abolished? you could start with a quote like, Hidden apples are always sweet.
ii. Definition
Start a GD by defining the topic or an important term in the topic.
For example, if the topic of the GD is Advertising is a Diplomatic Way of Telling a Lie, why not start the GD by defining advertising as, Any paid form of non personal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods or services through mass media like newspapers, magazines, television or radio by an identified sponsor
iii. Question
Asking a question is an impact way of starting a GD.It does not signify asking a question to any of the candidates in a GD so as to hamper the flow.
It implies asking a question, and answering it yourself. Questions that promote a flow of ideas are always appreciated.
For a topic like, Should India go to war with Pakistan, you could start by asking, What does war bring to the people of a nation? We have had four clashes with Pakistan. The pertinent question is what have we achieved?
iv. Shock statement
Initiating a GD with a shocking statement is the best way to grab immediate attention and put forth your point.
If a GD topic is, The Impact of Population on the Indian Economy, you could start with, At the centre of the Indian capital stands a population clock that ticks away relentlessly. It tracks 33 births a minute, 2,000 an hour, 48,000 a day. Which calculates to about 12 million every year. That is roughly the size of Australia. As a current political slogan puts it, Nothing's impossible when 1 billion Indians work together.
v. Facts, figures and statistics
If you decide to initiate your GD with facts, figure and statistics, make sure to quote them accurately.Approximation is allowed in macro level figures, but micro level figures need to be correct and accurate.
For example, you can say, approximately 70 per cent of the Indian population stays in rural areas (macro figures, approximation allowed).But you cannot say 30 states of India instead of 28 (micro figures, no approximations).Stating wrong facts works to your disadvantage.
vi. Short story
Use a short story in a GD topic like, Attitude is Everything.
This can be initiated with,A child once asked a balloon vendor, who was selling helium gas filled balloons, whether a blue colored balloon will go as high in the sky as a greencolored balloon. The balloon vendor told the child, it is not the color of the balloon but what is inside it that makes it go high.
vii. General statement
Use a general statement to put the GD in proper perspective.
For example, if the topic is, Should Sonia Gandhi be the prime minister of India? you could start by saying, Before jumping to conclusions like, Yes, Sonia Gandhi should be, or No, Sonia Gandhi should not be, let's first find out the qualities one needs to be a a good prime minister of India. Then we can compare these qualities with those that Mrs. Gandhi possesses.
This will help us reach the conclusion in a more objective and effective manner.
3.Summarization/ Conclusion
· Most GD do not really have conclusions. A conclusion is where the whole group decides in favor or against the topic.
· But every GD is summarized. You can summaries what the group has discussed in the GD in a nutshell.Keep the following points in mind while summarizing a discussion:
1. Avoid raising new points.
2. Avoid stating only your viewpoint.
3. Avoid dwelling only on one aspect of the GD.
4. Keep it brief and concise.
5. It must incorporate all the important points that came out during the GD.
6. If the examiner asks you to summaries a GD, it means the GD has come to an end.
7. Do not add anything once the GD has been summarized.
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