15/06/2022
As we successfully complete another session, the English Debating Society of Hindu College looks back at it's journey through yet another successful year of debates.
The Hindu Debating Society set new records for itself with astounding performances in both national and international tournments this year. We were proud to see the active participation from both seniors and freshers, the latter, showing remarkable results with every tournment.
The session kicked off with Manak Kataria and Yatharth Dhingra breaking at the Covenant International Debating Championship Invitationals and reaching the Quarterfinals of the tournment.
At the TIB Judo Eminence International, Medhansh Bhardwaj had an amazing run and became the Open Grand Finalist.
Gauri Ramachandran made the Hindu English Debating Society extremely proud by emerging as a Quarter Finalist at DSNLU PD.
At the Jagran Lakecity University's tournament, Yatharth Dhingra and Manak Kataria went on to become Semi-Finalists and secured the award for The Best Speaker, Best Reply Speaker and 10th best speaker respectively, Bringing laurels to Hindu debating society.
Once again, Hindu debating society was made proud, At the Law and Justice open, Medhansh Bhardwaj was a Silver Grand Finalist and bagged the top 10 ESL speakers .
The following month, At the Asian Schools Debating Championship Medhansh Bhardwaj was an Invited Adjudicator and went on to Chair the Novice Quarter-Finals.
We were proud to see Anupa Paulchaudhuri, Mehr Kaur and Sanya Sethi at Polemic PD, where they broke and went on to become the Quarter-Finalists.
At Rahat, the fundraiser tournament, We witnessed a brilliant run from Manak Kataria breaking as an Adjudicator and Mehr Kaur and Sanya Sethi becoming the Semi-Finalists and the 8th and 12th Best speakers respectively.
Gauri Srivastava participated at the National Law University Orissa BP tournament and broke as an Adjudicator.
At the Daulat Ram College Asian Parliamentary Debate, Gauri Srivastava secured the 2nd Best Adjudicator and was a panelist in the Open Grand Finals. At the same tournament Gauri Ramachandran and Medhansh Bhardwaj were the Octa-Finalists. Mehr was declared the best adjudicator and was the Open Grand finals chair.
At the Taiwan International JL Debating Championship, Yatharth Dhingra and Shivansh Raman were declared winners and also secured the award for the Finals Best Speaker and The 4th Overall Best Speaker.
At Nalsar IV, Yatharth Dhingra went on to become the Quarter-Finalist of the tournment.
Adding on to his wins , Yatharth Dhingra was crowned the Winner at Bangladesh International Debate, where he also bagged the Best Finals Speaker and the Best Overal Speaker as well.
The Hindu contingent made us proud yet again at the parliamentary debate organised by the National Law University Jodhpur, where Medhansh Bhardwaj was an Invited Adjudicator and went on to judge the Novice Finals and Mehr Kaur was a Breaking Subsidized Adjudicator. Yatharth Dhingra and Manak Kataria went on to become Semi-Finalists with Yatharath Dhingra also bagging the 3rd Best Speaker.
We were delighted by the run at DCAC’s Fundraiser Debate where Manak Kataria, Yatharth and Gauri Ramachandran finished as Semi-Finalists with both Gauri and Yatharth being amongst the top 10 speakers.
At Munaazrah 2021, Mehr Kaur and Sanya Sethi emerged as the QuarterFinalists for the tournament in a cross with Mehr being declared the 5th best speaker.
At Ambedkar University's Parliamentary Debate, Yatharth was declared the Winner for the debate in a cross team whereas Mehr Kaur judged the Novice Finals and was declared the Best Adjudicator for the debate.
We were extremely delighted to see, Gauri Srivastava as the Invited Adjudicator for the IUDC NLUO Asian Parliamentary debate.
The year concluded with Mehr Kaur making us extremly proud, as being the Invited Adjudicator for WhipperSnappa Australs organised by Auckland University.
2022 began with Medhansh Bhardwaj being announced as the Invited Adjudicator for Vish Parliamentary Debate. For the same, Medhansh went on to judge Open Semi-Finals along with Open Grand Finals. Following to this, Medhansh Bhardwaj was the Invited Adjudicator for College of Business Studies Parliamentary debate.
We were delighted to see Mehr Kaur finishing as a Semi-Finalist at the ILS Parliamentary Debate. At the same tournament, Manak Kataria and Yatharth Dhingra were declared Quarter-Finalists.
Gauri Srivastava was Breaking Adjudicator and OGF panelist for Justice Tarkunde Memorial debate.
At People Speak organized by Sri Venketeshwara College, Gauri Ramachandran, Mehr Kaur and Sanya Sethi emerged as Octa-Finalists.
With the new batch of freshers on board, we were once again prepared and ready to take on the debating circuit and add more laurels to The Hindu Debating Society.
At Shivaji Memorial Conventional Debate, we were extremely proud to see Shreeya Prasoon secure the prize of Best Interjector.
At Atharv BPD organized by IIM Indore, Manak Kataria had a brilliant run by emerging as the Semi-Finalist of the tournament.
We were thrilled to see our contingent’s performance at RMNLU PD where Hindu teams and adjes made an impeccable set of achievements. Gauri Ramachandran, Mehr Kaur and Sanya Sethi broke on top of tabs and went on to become the Semi-Finalists whereas Shalwin Yoosuf became the Best Novice Adjudicator and Chaired The Novice Finals and also bagged the Best Open Adjudicator.
At SBS BPD Medhansh Bhardwaj was Invited as an adjudicator and chaired Novice Finals and judges Open Grand Finals.
Manak Kataria, at Vitark hosted by DDUC, went on to become the semi-finalist and at the same tournament Shreya Mahajan broke as an adjudicator.
Shreeya Prasoon and Chirag Singh cleared the preliminary round and became Finalists at Jim Kalkaji Memorial Conventional Debate.
Nitin Singh Rana and Shalwin Yoosuf went on to become Quarter Finalists and At the same tournament, Saif Sheikh broke as an adjudicator at SGGSCC PD Tournament
At Polemic 2022 by Ramjas College, Mehr Kaur was one of the subsidised adjudicators and Harsh*t Mahrishi became the third best adjudicator and was a panelist for the open grand finals.
Adding on to our Achievements, Yatharth Dhingra went on to become the finalist at Axiom PD.
At NLUJ PD, Yatharath Dhingra became the 3rd best speaker and went on to become the semi-finalist.
We were once again extremely proud to see Medhansh Bhardwaj being invited as an adjudicator at IIT PD.
Medhansh Bhardwaj was invited as an adjudicator at Vivaad'22 organized by IPCW and At the same tournament Shalwin Yoosuf broke as an Adjudicator.
We were extremely delighted to see Harsh*t Mahrishi became the 5th best speaker and the Grand Finalist at Sardar Dayal Singh Memorial PD
Medhansh Bhardwaj once again made us proud, by being invited as an adjudicator at SRCC PD and was being a panelist for the Novice Semi-Finals
Medhansh Bhardwaj was invited as an adjudicator at Manzar PD and went on to judge Open Grand Finals and chaired the Open Semi-Finals.
Gauri R., Mehr Kaur and Sanya Sethi broke at FTD' 22 and went on to become Quarter-Finalists.
At LSR PD, Mehr Kaur, Sanya Sethi and Gauri went on to become the finalists and Harsh*t broke as an Adjudicator and Chaired the open quarter finals.
We were joyful to see Shalwin Yoosuf became the Best Speaker at Abhivyakti Conventional Debate hosted by Satyawati College.
Having Medhansh Bhardwaj as an invited adjudicator at Debutant IIT PD, made us proud yet again.
Shalwin Yoosuf was seen as a subsidised adjudicator at Pratijja- hosted by KIIT.
Shalwin Yoosuf broke as an adjudicator and was the panelist of the Open Grand Finals at RR.Lockdown.exe, Africa.
As our journey in debating continues, we also pause to reflect on the growth that we have experienced as a society. Every tournament, every win, in these trying times, has taught each one of us to not just value the activity, but more importantly, to value the people that make this Debating Society all that it is today. We remind ourselves that in all its competitiveness, the society remains a safe space for learning, fun, and growth for all. We eagerly look forward to the approaching season and hope to keep up our outstanding performance and further improve on it. Congratulations to all our members!
