Jain Varsity on Top in B'luru Leg of HT Centennial Debate

The brightest young minds from Bengaluru took part in the battle of wits and knowledge in the third and final regional leg of the debate

- HT Correspondent

[e-mail] BENGALURU: The brightest minds from Bengaluru's top educational institutions battled it out on Wednesday in the third and final regional leg of the Hindustan Times Centennial Debate.

Held at the Museum of Art and Photography, the three-hour-long event saw speakers from a mix of humanities, science, engineering and management backgrounds engage in a battle of wits and knowledge on the topic - "the social media generation is more lost than found".

A team of Aastha Bhattacharya and CS Harini from the School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Jain University, were the team winners. They proceeded to the national finals to be held in Delhi, along with the team from Jyoti Nivas College, comprising Abhirami Arunkumar and Stacia Agusta d'Silva.

These two teams will join Ashoka University and OP Jindal Global University, who were the winners and runner-up respectively of the Delhi leg of the debate, as well as the Vidyalankar Institute of Technology and Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Technology, who qualified from Mumbai. These six teams will compete for the India crown at the national finals to be held in Delhi.

Bhattacharya was adjudicated the best speaker, followed by Manpreet Singh Gill from the School of Sciences, Jain University, and Abhirami.