“One of the debates that I still remember was when I was in my first year of college,” says Utkarsh Jain, a senior at Ramjas College and PRO for the debate society. Sitting on the college lawns on a dark, rainy afternoon, he says: “The topic was, ‘I should burn the flag of India if I feel that the country is not fulfilling my basic needs and aspirations’. The audience was not in favour at all. It was the obvious points, like why should one burn their country’s flag? It symbolises unity and so on … But after the debate, half of the crowd changed their minds.”
And that is the power of debate and the importance of it.
