THE 17th PADMASHREE J T M GIBSON MEMORIAL INVITATIONAL ENGLISH DEBATES, 2011

1. Held at Mayo College, Ajmer from Sun 2, Oct to Tues, 4 Oct, 11.

2. Convener was Mr. Sanjay Khati, Head of the English Dept.

3. Teams

 The following teams participated:

(a)   Dubai Modern High School, Dubai

(b)  Maharani Gayatri Devi School, Jaipur

(c)  Mayo College Girls’ School, Ajmer

(d)  Mayo College, Ajmer

(e)  National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla

(f)   Rajmata Krishna Kumari Girls Public School, Jodhpur

(g)  Sawai Man Singh School, Jaipur

(h)  The Doon School, Dehradun

(i)    The Scindia School, Gwalior

(j)    The Yadavindra Public School, Mohali

(k)  Vasant Valley School, Delhi

4   4. Results

(a) The Extempore Round:

      (i) Best Speaker    -    Shreyas Ravishankar of Dubai Modern High School, Dubai

     (b) The Turncoat Round:

     (i) Best Speaker    -    Maayank Murti of Mayo College, Ajmer

     (c) First Semi Final: Development we claim is surreal.

     Dubai Modern High School, Dubai versus Sawai Man Singh School, Jaipur

     (i)  Best Speaker    -    Anand Ravindran of Dubai Modern High School, Dubai

     (d) Second Semi Final: Saffron and Green are two colours of the Flag.

     Mayo College, Ajmer versus Vasant Valley School, Delhi

     (i) Best Speaker    -    Vaibhav Aggarwal of Mayo College, Ajmer

     (e) The Final Debate: The souls of five hundred Sir Issac Newtons would go to the making up of a Shakespeare or a

     Milton.Mayo College, Ajmer V/s Dubai Modern High School, Dubai

     (i) Best Speaker    -   Shared between Maayank Murti of Mayo College, Ajmer and Shreyas Ravishankar of Dubai

     Modern High School, Dubai

     (ii) Most Promising Speaker of the Debates – Shared between Nidhanjit Jain of Sawai Man Singh School, Jaipur and 

     Riddhima Yadav of Vasant Valley School, Delhi

     (iii) Best Speaker of the Debates (Overall) – Shared between   Anand Ravindran of Dubai Modern High School,

     Dubai and Maayank Murti of Mayo College, Ajmer

Mayo College, Ajmer won the trophy for the fourth consecutive year. Dubai Modern High School, Dubai was the Runner up. Mayo College being the host did not contend for the trophy but only the individual positions. The hosts Mayo College, Ajmer handed over the trophy to the Runner-up Dubai Modern High School, Dubai

5. Topics

   (a) Extempore

  1. Twilight

  2. Moustache

  3. Spine

  4. Bread

  5. Portrait

  6. Hideous

  7. Skeleton

  8. Dwarf

  9. Fission

  10. Season

  11. Thorn

  12. Enamel

  13. Milestone

  14. Masterpiece

  15. Flight

  16. Fence

  17. Door

  18. Baton

  19. Glass

  20. Wall

  (b) Turncoat

Idealism is not ideal.

There is no future in the past.

There are only ‘greedy’ good doers.

Gandhi is long dead.

Anna is the answer to comatose India.

We don’t need ‘Helicopter Parents’.

Life isn’t poetry, my boy!

Men rule because women let them.

The ballot should have the option ‘none of the above’.

Shut up the ‘educated elite’!

Stop the world, I want to get off!

We are colour blind.

Sport is a war minus the shooting.

I think therefore I am.

I’ll back the masses against the classes.

Nobody tells me anything.

(c) Semi Final

Saffron and Green are two colours of the Flag.

Development we claim is surreal.

 (d Final

The souls of five hundred Sir Issac Newtons would go to the making up of a Shakespeare or a Milton.
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