KK Birla debate on power and truth concludes

New Delhi Director of KK Birla Foundation Dr Suresh Rituparna and Prof. Rameshwar Rai present the award to the winners. Delhi University’s political science department bagged the first prize in the KK Birla Memorial Hindi Debate, held at DU’s Hindu College on Saturday. The debate was organised by the KK Birla Foundation, in collaboration with Hindu College, and was judged by Sunil Joshi from the Sanskrit department of Hindu College, Sahil Kairo, ex-president of Vagmi debating society at Hindu College and faculty at Drishti IAS, and Anurag Singh Shekhar from the Hindi department of Shyama Prasad Mukherji College, DU. We had that goal of getting the first place this time and we wanted to do it together.” The second prize was bagged by Rajnish Shukla and Sudhanshu Raghuvanshiof the Pannalal Girdharlal Dayanand Anglo Vedic Evening College, and the third prize was won by Yash Vardhan Singh and Harsh Prakash Jha of the Delhi School of Journalism. Judge Sunil Joshi said, “It was a very difficult task to finalise the winners as all the students seemed to have done their research well, their arguments were strong and passionate at the same time.” Chief guest Rituparna said, “This was the ninth edition of this debate and it is always such a good experience to see so many young minds participating with so much enthusiasm.