M’lore: 14 teams qualify for state’s biggest debate competition


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Mangalore, 04 Aug 2014: Fourteen teams of different schools across the city advanced to the zonal selection - Senior round of the Verbattle tenth edition - Karnataka’s biggest debate competition that took place at Samruddhi Bhavan here on Saturday August 2.

 

A total of 25 teams participated in the competition and after a few rounds of interesting debate sessions, 14 teams were shortlisted to go to the next level for the seniors which is the Verbattle Senior- Skirmish round that will be held at JSS auditorium, Bangalore on August 18.

 

The competition began with Verbattle Foundation founder and host of the event Deepak Timmaya briefing about the event and the importance of a platform like Verbattle.

 

Timmaya said, ‘Verbattle is the only platform that gives students an opportunity to argue and defend their viewpoints in the most civilised way possible. Logic is a very important aspect in our lives because it helps one in smoothening out problems and brings about solution. To acquire such a logical stance people need to debate. Verbattle is a very real debate in the sense that the statements that are given to the participants and the format in which they go about the debate allows them to speak openly about the things that they believe in. It is definitely more of a conversational format which in turn helps students to use a conversational problem solving strategy in the future,’ said Timmaya.

 

Timmaya expressed concern over the students for not giving due importance to such events yet, referring to the poor turnout in the Senior round held in the city on Saturday August 2.

 

 

Air India Mangalore station manager and instructor at their Management Training Institute at Hyderabad quiz master Nagesh Shetty, SGPT First Grade College Assistant Professor and Mangalore University Syllabus Revision Committee panellist Nagesh Rao and CEO of Indiana Hospital and alumnus of IIM Calicut Keshav Das were the jurors of debate competitions.

 

Following this, the debate sessions with intriguing debate statements began. Some of the statements included, love is a fools’ emotion, TV causes intellectual degradation and anger is a positive emotion.

 

Towards the end of the competition the names of the 14 shortlisted teams were announced. These teams will be participating in the Verbattle Senior- Skirmish round to be held at Bangalore on August 18.

 

Speaking about the impact of Verbattle, Indiana Hospital CEO and one of the juror Keshav Das said, ‘Verbattle is a wonderful platform to articulate one’s thoughts. It teaches one to accept others view points. Technical knowledge will only get a person to a certain level. It is the soft skills that a student acquires, that help him reach a very high position in his/her career. Its time students and parents understand this and encourage not only studies but also activities that will develop their children’s emotional quotient,’ said Keshav.

 

Keshav also urged more students to participate in competitions like Verbattle.

 

 

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