The document discusses various current topics that could be discussed during group discussions, including questions about the 2014 Indian elections, privacy issues related to the Tehelka case, career prospects and salaries for software jobs versus MBAs, juvenile criminal punishment, government corruption, subsidies in India, legalizing prostitution, space program funding, divorce property settlements, parenting roles, gold as an investment, the Mumbai film industry, the Nokia-Microsoft alliance, globalization, population growth, democracy and corruption, foreign media influence, the need for censorship or dictatorship in India, the purpose of the TV show Kaun Banega Crorepati, beauty pageants, regional geopolitics, dependence on computers, privatization, comparing China and India,

1. 1. Election 2014: Will the national battle for PM’s position boil down to BJP's Narendra
Modi and AAP's Arvind Kejriwal?
2. In reference to Tehelka case, are there double standards on privacy?
3. Are software jobs more lucrative than MBAs?
4. “CAT registrations are going down”– Are MBA programmes losing their shine?
5. Should Juvenile rapists be treated similarly as adults?
6. Can privatisation reduce corruption?
7. Government jobs provide lesser growth than private sector jobs.
8. Greed is good - it is an essential human quality.
9. How should management students manage time between academics and extra-curricular
activities?
10. Should India do away with subsidies?
11. Should prostitution be legalised and taxed?
12. Is it justified to spend so much on space programmes when millions are still struggling
in poverty?
13. In divorce, should wife get 50% of husband’s earnings?
14. Daughters are more caring than sons
15. A closed mouth catches no flies
16. Gold: Best investment or a bursting bubble?
17. Will Mumbai's film industry ever evolve into a truly modern corporative one?
18. Nokia and Microsoft is a planned alliance or a desperate move?
19. Life has become dangerous in this unipolar world
20. The government should stop funding IITs and IIMs

3. 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
 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 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 limits on artistic freedom (the controversy on Fire).
 Should there be private universities?
 Does banning fashion shows and New Year parties save our culture