UPDATE

The Christ University Debate Society has had its platter full with tournaments for the past few months, and before we head into the big one at the end of the season, we thought we’d display our standings around or on the podium. However before we begin to pin up the laurels we’d like to thank Jake Mercer who headed back to his homeland last month, for being such an invaluable addition to our DebSoc however short the duration. We hope to collaborate with him in the future and wish him the greatest luck.
Starting with the Christ University Model United Nations - The First Inter Collegiate MUN to be held at and hosted by Christ University. The winners were Vipul Nanda, from the National Law School University Debate Society who stood first followed by Ajay Kumar and Jake Mercer of Christ DebSoc tieing at second place. The turnout included forty Christites, ranging from Pre-university levels to Degree seniors. Dipti Ramesh-the current president of the Debsoc chaired the event.
Next up was the RV Debate Tournament which saw our Dipti Ramesh, Shreya Kalra and Jake Mercer qualify to adjudicate the Semi-final round while Ajay Kumar chaired the quarter final round for the novice teams. The performance levels were sustained in the National Law School Debate Tournament as well where Dipti broke till the semi- final round and judged the novice quarter final round while Ajay judged novice semis. Our debate team comprising Kishore Kumar, Tanmoy Chakroborty and Prasad Subramaniam qualified for the quarter final round. The JIPMER conventional Debate competition was conquered by Tanmoy and Ajay who secured the First and Second position respectively.
In order to spur the dormant debaters in the university into stepping up to the podium, the Christ university Debsoc recently held a Conventional debating tournament , a somewhat unofficial battle cry for possible recruitment. The event was judged by two of our universities most well informed professors Prof. Suparna Kar and Prof. Padma Kumar, according to whose gauging newcomer Rajni Naik was awarded the first prize. We’d like to extend our congratulations and hope she continues the trend in future tournaments.