Young minds debate at Bennett

Cerebrum, the literary club of Bennett University, held its first debate of this academic session, ‘War of Words’ in order to establish Bennett’s very own debating team. The freshers dominated the competition, and walked away with all the awards.

The best speaker award went to Parth Sharma of School of Engineering while the first and second runner-up positions were bagged by Nikil Kapoor, School of Management and Arindam Keswani, School of Engineering respectively. Apart from this the best question awards went to Ritik Agarwal, School of Engineering and tAgnivesh Kumar, School of Law.

The participants were divided into two opposing teams depending on their topic. Each participant was given 3 minutes which was followed by a rebuttal from the opposing teams and audience.

Around 20 students from various streams participated in the debate wherein they were judged on their content, diction, body language, volume, speed and many more. The participants displayed outstanding confidence and convincing attitude while the audience appeared to be very active and eager to put forward their point of view.

After a highly interactive and enthusiastic session, the judging panel, including Rishabh Mishra, secretary of Cerebrum, Viren Tak, joint secretary of Cerebrum and Akriti Saraswat, club member, brainstormed on various aspects before deciding the winners.

Paridhi, a participant said, “Though winning is important but more than that is learning and I have learnt a lot today not just related to the topics of the debate but also various other things which count, including presenting style, body language and etc.”

"These events enhance our knowledge regarding various social issues and bring in the positives and negatives of the same," she added.

The topics of the event organized on August 2, 2018 were as follows, ‘What are teenagers dealing with depression or mere performance pressure,’ ‘The death sentences are not effective in the 21^st century,’ ‘Online dating applications like Tinder are for good or worse,’ ‘That beauty pageants are a way of objectifying women.’