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Their question: “Mahatma Gandhi quote - 'Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to a true democratic spirit'”
2018_Q3 is a Gandhi quote on 'anger and intolerance', the topper's breakdown of intolerance into caste/religious/gender types transfers straight to that answer.
Key learnings from their answer
- ›He converted classification-heavy theory into hand-drawn branching tree diagrams instead of prose lists, e.g. IR approaches split into realist / middle-path / idealist in Q3(a), and intolerance mapped into caste / religious / gender / marginalised (Naxals, Dalits, LGBT) in Q4(a) -> when a concept has natural sub-categories, a labelled tree both organises your own thinking and lets the examiner see coverage at a glance; reserve it for genuinely taxonomic content, not every answer.
What they cited: Gun-violence/shooting in the US and Tamil Nadu instances (intolerance) - Q4(a)
Quotes used: “Mahatma Gandhi - 'Intolerance is itself a form of violence...' (question-provided quote in Q4a, engaged by candidate)”