Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Indian debate Calendar
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=qm6to0mtjdgi36d7515118u38c@group.calendar.google.com
Indian Tournaments - Dec-March
1) NLS MUN -
17 - 19 Dec,
NLS, Bangalore
http://nlsmun.in
2) HR MUN '11 -
13 - 15th Jan,
Mumbai
http://www.hrmun.org/
3) SIMUNC '11 - (Symby MUN),
17 - 19th Jan
Pune
http://www.simunc.org/
7) NUJS PD -
3 - 8th Feb,
Kolkata
8) BITS Goa MUN -
3 - 5th Feb 2011
BITS Goa
http://bitsmun.in/BITSMUN/home.html
10) BITS PILANI MUN -
11 -14th Feb 2011
BITS Pilani
http://bitsmun.org/
11) Malaysia Debate Open
4 - 7th March 2011
MMU Melaka, Malaysia
www.malaysiadebateopen.com
(Registrations Open. 100 team cap. Its an Open) - book ur tickets now, and you'll get them from Air Asia from Chennai at 8,200 Rs!!
12) UADC-2011
16 - 23 May, 2011
University of Macau, Macau
http://uadc2011.gaes.gov.mo/
P.S.... There is a google Calendar for this stuff... check it out at
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=qm6to0mtjdgi36d7515118u38c@group.calendar.google.com
17 - 19 Dec,
NLS, Bangalore
http://nlsmun.in
2) HR MUN '11 -
13 - 15th Jan,
Mumbai
http://www.hrmun.org/
3) SIMUNC '11 - (Symby MUN),
17 - 19th Jan
Pune
http://www.simunc.org/
4) Army Institute of Law (AIL) PD -
21- 23rd January 2011
Mohali
http://www.aildebate.com/
5) LSR-MUN -
21 - 24th Jan,
Delhi
21- 23rd January 2011
Mohali
http://www.aildebate.com/
5) LSR-MUN -
21 - 24th Jan,
Delhi
www.lsrmun.org
6) IIT-M Saarang MUN -
26 - 28th Jan,
Chennai
http://www.saarang.org/2011/spotlight/modelunitednations
6) IIT-M Saarang MUN -
26 - 28th Jan,
Chennai
http://www.saarang.org/2011/
7) NUJS PD -
3 - 8th Feb,
Kolkata
8) BITS Goa MUN -
3 - 5th Feb 2011
BITS Goa
http://bitsmun.in/BITSMUN/
9) LSEAD (Lahore School of Economics PD)
4th-8th Feb
Lahore
Lahore
10) BITS PILANI MUN -
11 -14th Feb 2011
BITS Pilani
http://bitsmun.org/
11) Malaysia Debate Open
4 - 7th March 2011
MMU Melaka, Malaysia
www.malaysiadebateopen.com
(Registrations Open. 100 team cap. Its an Open) - book ur tickets now, and you'll get them from Air Asia from Chennai at 8,200 Rs!!
12) UADC-2011
16 - 23 May, 2011
http://uadc2011.gaes.gov.mo/
P.S.... There is a google Calendar for this stuff... check it out at
https://www.google.com/
Friday, May 15, 2009
Aye and Yea!!
Yello people...
As the above line has probably already told you, I'm not that big on Queen's English, whatever the title of this blog may say about that. Yes, I do believe that Queen's English is definitely a far better idea than what the Yanks call E-N-G-L-I-S-H, and I still spell colour as C-O-L-O-U-R.
But then again, all languages do adapt and change, and I guess it is always better to go with the flow. 200 years ago, some poor grammarian would probably have been tearing his hair over mistakes that are correct language today. If we had listened to them, we'd still be stuck with "thou art correct", rather than the infinitely more convenient "a-OK".
Think of the letters that we've stopped writing. When I was in school, the idea of a pen friend was still alive, albeit tenuously. Today, we don't even have email friends - they've all been replaced by Facebook contacts, who tweet sweet nothings on our "Wall". Postage Stamps lie forgotten.
Then, there is the salutation in the letters (even the rare ones that we have to write). I remember my school English teacher telling us the perfect old British trained style of "Thanking you, I shall remain, yours faithfully/truly". That got shortened to "Yours faithfully", which has now given way to the more robotic "Warm Regards". Combined with the electronic world that guarantees no human contact between the alphabets and the writer, and the dehumanization of our literary world is complete.
But I digress. After all, isn't the aim of a first post an introduction to the writer and the blog itself. Assuming that it indeed is so, Let me start by fulfilling my burdens:
I am a just-out-of-teens college student studying Engineering in Bangalore. Reading and Debating (PD to be precise, Asians style PD to be annoyingly so) being my passions (would that be too heavily loaded a word, I wonder?), that will probably be a major part of most posts here. Before you get carried away, let me assure you that I'm not an expert at either, nor am I someone whose opinions you should consider heavily. I guess, being an amateur, this will be a compilation of the aches, falls and bruises that we'll be learning from, along with some ideas from practicing with other novices.
Happy reading. Please do respond. This isnt a monologue!
As the above line has probably already told you, I'm not that big on Queen's English, whatever the title of this blog may say about that. Yes, I do believe that Queen's English is definitely a far better idea than what the Yanks call E-N-G-L-I-S-H, and I still spell colour as C-O-L-O-U-R.
But then again, all languages do adapt and change, and I guess it is always better to go with the flow. 200 years ago, some poor grammarian would probably have been tearing his hair over mistakes that are correct language today. If we had listened to them, we'd still be stuck with "thou art correct", rather than the infinitely more convenient "a-OK".
Think of the letters that we've stopped writing. When I was in school, the idea of a pen friend was still alive, albeit tenuously. Today, we don't even have email friends - they've all been replaced by Facebook contacts, who tweet sweet nothings on our "Wall". Postage Stamps lie forgotten.
Then, there is the salutation in the letters (even the rare ones that we have to write). I remember my school English teacher telling us the perfect old British trained style of "Thanking you, I shall remain, yours faithfully/truly". That got shortened to "Yours faithfully", which has now given way to the more robotic "Warm Regards". Combined with the electronic world that guarantees no human contact between the alphabets and the writer, and the dehumanization of our literary world is complete.
But I digress. After all, isn't the aim of a first post an introduction to the writer and the blog itself. Assuming that it indeed is so, Let me start by fulfilling my burdens:
I am a just-out-of-teens college student studying Engineering in Bangalore. Reading and Debating (PD to be precise, Asians style PD to be annoyingly so) being my passions (would that be too heavily loaded a word, I wonder?), that will probably be a major part of most posts here. Before you get carried away, let me assure you that I'm not an expert at either, nor am I someone whose opinions you should consider heavily. I guess, being an amateur, this will be a compilation of the aches, falls and bruises that we'll be learning from, along with some ideas from practicing with other novices.
Happy reading. Please do respond. This isnt a monologue!
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