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The Debating Society
Yearbook Report 2009-2010
Dear
Editor,
This is to express the extreme
dissatisfaction of the gossip-counters regarding the dismal
performance of one of their oldest and most prestigious
contributors. After so many years as one of our most regular
suppliers of the juciest stories about court intrigues and
cat-fights, this dip in standards is shocking. Of course there were
small stories here and there, as there must be any society, but none
to really match the glory of bygone eras.
The only complaint that the
society could find against its Secretary Arushi was that she used
too many smileys in her messages! Nobody should be permitted to be
that happy. Not in this society at least. Shikhar and Shaman started
out with double titles- Joint and HYVA Secretaries. By the end of
the year Shikhar was clearly the young Visionary and Shaman the
joint Secretary. Munshiji took his vows of ascetism, abstaining
from a life corrupted by stale debating and dedicated his life
instead to training a new generation of debaters. Rajiv teamed up
with Shaman and they ended up in the newspaper holding a gargantuan
cheque under their noses, with an even more noticeable prize-amount
printed on it. It was doubtless that obnoxious million digit number
that provoked other colleges into sending the Debsoc stinkers
accusing them of belonging to a “high and mighty” college! Unless of
course it was Ilma and her run at IIT Kanpur.. She was also, once
again indispensable in ensuring that no Debsoc member (except
herself, peculiarly) returned from the India Habitat Centre on an
empty stomach. Sarah made the crucial new email id which was
initially intended for different reasons but eventually ended up
serving the Doha Debates. Even Ishita (and Shaunna) came for
meeting(s). Everybody did Something.
Younglings came in two batches-
'open inductions' the process was called. No controversy there
either. Almost everybody went for some debate or the other- Manchit,
Rhea, Ritwika, Alfons, Subhashis, Dipak, Udit, Shaurya, Malini,
Joyeeta, and Naomi- and won a pretty number of conventionals. Of
course we must remember the unconventionals as well, who went on
sprees as dissenting adjudicator or pasting bills denouncing
Patriarchy all over campus. A nice, hard-working lot in general, and
there is a rumour doing the rounds that they actually like
the society. What is the world coming to?
The Elders faithfully adhered
to tradition and rarely put in appearances at meetings, except a
Vishes one or two. Their names were always there to preside-
Karan, Siddharth, Sukrit and Sukhvir. Tania breezed along in this
new-found heaven of freedom and peace as confidently as a dictator,
alotting work abundantly (and almost always through the
ever-cheerful and tireless Arushi). Plottings and discontentment
must have been flourishing somewhere in the bowels of the society
but they never reached her ears except in faint wisps, and nobody
did tellthedebsoc anything @gmail.com. And so they all thrived in
the blissful world of ignorance!
Events happened, scandals
didn't. The Freshers' debate was suitably lengthy and boring and
there was cake to make up for it. There were failures of course.
Arushi's pink clips saying 'MukMem' never materialised, nor did the
ICOE debate. It's past the first week of February and MukMem is
still 3 weeks away, in direct contention with a Holi-day. Our only
hope is now this 62 year old veteran. If 200 people gathering in one
place for official bickering cannot rustle up something for us then
this society is truly doomed!
Amen.
Executive Council Members 2009-2010
Executive Council Members 2010-2011
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