Premchand Memorial Parliamentary Debate https://premchanddebate.in/2011 official website Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:52:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.19 Premchand 2012 this February! https://premchanddebate.in/2011/2012/01/premchand-2012-this-february/ https://premchanddebate.in/2011/2012/01/premchand-2012-this-february/#respond Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:51:13 +0000 http://premchanddebate.in/2011/?p=430 We are pleased to announce the 9th Premchand Memorial International Parliamentary Debate which will take place from 3-6 February at Hindu College.

You can check the official website for more information – http://premchanddebate.in/2012

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Complete list of motions used in Premchand 2011
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Round 1 (Theme: Art and Culture)
1. This house believes that there should be a content rating system for music.
2. This house believes that common people should be allowed to write, paste or paint on public walls in India.
3. This house believes that the Indian censor board should not mandate any cuts in movies that have been awarded an A certificate.
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Round 2 (Theme: Law and Justice)
1. This house believes that the Government of India should decriminalize dowry
2. House of Rational People of the World believes that inciting hatred against one’s own country should not be a criminal offence.
3. This house will take away the right of a convicted prisoner to appeal before the President
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Round 3 (Theme: Education)
1. This house believes that the government has no right to intervene in the process of admission to private schools
2. This house will ban moral education in all schools
3. This house will criminalize sustained absenteeism on the part of government school and college teachers.
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Round 4 (Theme: International Affairs)
1. This house believes that international terrorism has ended up empowering existing state structures.
2. This house believes that diplomats should not enjoy immunity from prosecution in their host country [Country where they are serving].
3. (Time set 1946) This house believes that in the immediate aftermath of the holocaust and the second world war, a homeland for Jews should be carved out of German territory.
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Round 5 (Theme: Governance and Policy)
1. This house believes that governments should not maintain a national database of citizens
2. This house believes that affirmative action should be given only to people born of inter caste or inter religious marriages.
3. This house believes that Governments of South Asian countries should run programmes exhorting people to choose their own partners for marriage.
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Octo Finals (open theme)
1. House of Rational Cricket Lovers believes that a ball pitching outside leg stump should not be exempt from the LBW law.
2. This house believes that in a democratic state it should be mandatory for every college or university to have an elected Students Union.
3. This house believes that in the long term India should not develop a large military industrial complex.
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Quarter Finals (Theme: Quarter Finals)
1. This house believes that criticism of any religion, including your own, in howsoever terse terms should be permissible.
2. This house believes that asking for votes on the basis of religion does not constitute a violation of secularism
3. This house believes that Ram’s banishment of Sita was in accordance with Rajdharma [rajdharma = duties of a king]
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Semi Finals (Theme: India)
1. This house believes that the Indian experiment of parliamentary communist parties has failed.
2. This house believes that the Government of India should institute an award for critics of the State.
3. This house believes that after 1947 brown sahibs have replaced white sahibs [open motion]
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Final
House of Rational People believes that the Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded to Wikileaks
]]> Ramjas Lifts Trophy https://premchanddebate.in/2011/2011/01/ramjas-lifts-trophy/ Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:41:43 +0000 http://premchanddebate.in/2011/?p=413 Ramjas College continued its consistently excellent run at the Premchand Memorial Debate by winning the tournament for the third time in the last four years. The Ramjas team comprising of Siddhartha Thyagrajan and Karandeep Khanna defeated the team of Prasun and Kartik Sivaram from RV College of Engineering in the  finals on a 3-2 split.

The losing semi finalists were Hindu College (Akash Kashyap and Raghuvir Dass) and another team from Ramjas College (Aditya Sarin and Shobhit)

Siddhartha Thyagarajan from Ramjas won the award for Best Speaker.  Aashay Sahai from RVCE was declared the Best Adjudicator. Eesha, Pradyumna and Sumit from Kirori Mal College and Dhruva Desai from Ramjas College won distinguished adjudicator awards.

All in all, cash prizes totaling well over a lakh were disbursed at Premchand 2011.

]]> Microsoft India on board as Title Sponsor https://premchanddebate.in/2011/2011/01/microsoft-liveedu-on-board-as-title-sponsor/ Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:54:55 +0000 http://premchanddebate.in/2011/?p=405 We are pleased to announce that Microsoft India will be the Title Sponsor for Premchand 2011.

]]> Premchand 2011 to feature octo-finals https://premchanddebate.in/2011/2011/01/premchand-2011-to-feature-octo-finals/ https://premchanddebate.in/2011/2011/01/premchand-2011-to-feature-octo-finals/#respond Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:22:13 +0000 http://premchanddebate.in/2011/?p=389 We have decided that given the growing scale of the tournament, it would be fitting to incorporate octo-finals in this year’s Premchand. The rest of the schedule remains unchanged.

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We are pleased to announce Mail Today, one of Delhi’s fastest growing newspapers as our media partner for the 8th Premchand Memorial International Parliamentary Debate 2011.

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1 Jan 2011

For registered institutions: please send us the names and experience levels of your adjudicators participating in Premchand. Adjudicator experience guidelines are contained in an email already sent to all registered teams. If you did not get this email for any reason, please get in touch with us regarding adjudicator experience guidelines.

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31 Dec 2010

Registration closed for the 8th Premchand Memorial Parliamentary Debate. If you had registered with us and were placed on the wait list, we’ll be giving you a call in case of any pullouts.

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