Yale Hindi debate to witness top American universities

Updated on: Thursday, March 29, 2012

Students from top American universities, including Columbia, Cornell and Harvard, would participate in the fourth edition of the Yale Hindi debate.

The one of its kind debate with the preliminary on March 30 and final on April 6, the students from these top American universities would debate on the theme "Higher education is not worth it".
 
The university said in a statement, the debate, a pride for the Yale, was started in 2008 as an internal competition; it has since grown to become a national event.
 
It's a platform for students to debate issues of social, economic and political relevance. The debate witnesses participation from undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, New York University, Cornell, Wellesley, UCLA, Welseyan and Texas.

Nikhil Sud, a 2006 graduate of St. Columbas School in New Delhi and a 2010 graduate of Yale College who is now studying at the Yale Law School, conceptualized and founded the annual Yale Hindi Debate. 
 
Sud said, "It has been an incredibly gratifying experience to have founded the Yale Hindi Debate and to have been able to nurture it, making it bigger and better every year,"
 
In the statement, the university said the Yale Hindi Debate has truly emerged as one of the most unique and significant efforts of the Yale India Initiative and the growth of South Asian Studies in the USA, an initiative that not only bolsters the study of South Asian languages and cultures at the universities, but also transcends it, as the issues debated pertain to society as a whole, not only to members of the South Asian community.

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