KJ SIMSR Horizon Dec - 2014 issue Dec 2014 | Page 59

IMPACT

MANTHAN-“The Churning of Ideas”
The rage for public debate now
shelves itself in all quarters of
corporate world. On 27th
August, 2014 ACUMEN-The
Quizzing and Debating Society
of SIMSR, offered the students
a valuable oppor tunity to
participate in MANTHAN, its
first debate competition .The
students portrayed their art of
persuasion to the fullest. The
event received overwhelming
response for its online prelims
round followed by 8 teams
carving their way out for the
main event.

The teams were evaluated on the
basis of 3 rounds by our judges,
Prof Deepika Atawar and Prof
Pramod Shetty. First year MMS
students Ankit Redkar and
Ashish Dangra gave a tough fight
to all the finalists and were
declared as winners.Mohit
Juneja and Krishna Thakkar
were declared as the runners up
for the event.
The event was a grand success
spanning students from various
genres. Team Acumen looks
forward to the participation from
the students in all the
forthcoming events of the year.

Face-Off at Manthan

Manthan Winners - Ankit Redkar and Ashish Dangra

Manthan Runners Up with Judge

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