LDC - The Literary and Debating Club, BITS Goa

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LDC - The Literary and Debating Club, BITS Goa

We're a bunch of avid readers, funny writers, debaters, loony comedians and more. We value the ability to take a joke higher than the ability to crack one.

WHAT WE DO:

We find humour in the strangest little things. As far as mixing work and play is concerned, we have thin lines between the two. Our main events throughout the year are:

• Contention - The Waves Debate, part of Waves, the annual cultural fest, in which colleges from all over the country participate. Since 2013, Contention has been a national-level affair.

• Carpe Dictum – A 3

day lit-fest taking place during Waves, with talks by eminent personalities along with fun events like JAMs, Word Games, Crosswords, Quizzes, and Poetry Slam.

• SchoolBag – A debate for high school children of Goa, conducted during Quark, the annual techno-management fest.

• BITS Debating League – a week-long intra-college knockout-style recklessly-punctuated-with-witty-retorts debate tournament.

• Origins – A 4-day carnival of random, humorous events including but not limited to: JAMs, a creative writing contest and FunSpeak (a collection of informals) – used as an induction procedure for the club at the beginning of every year.

• Miscellaneous other intra-college events according to the whims of our members. For instance, an impromptu JAM session near the students’ favourite on-campus eatery and an open Spelling Bee competition.

• Occasional criticism of the term ‘li8’ and its usage while secretly admiring the sheer range of emotions it condenses into one syllable.

- Follow us on twitter:
- Clarification: When we correct people’s grammar, it’s only a social experiment. You know...for the lulz. We’re a little weird…just a little.

19/06/2025

If oration is what you do
And poetry is the vibe for you,
We hope you're in Pune on 22nd June,
'cause InVerse Regionals is happening soon.
Join us at 4 PM at MIT-WPU!

LDC, BITS Goa in collaboration with MIT-WPU, presents a slam poetry competition.

Register by filling the form :
https://forms.gle/ckFa3hyMzZS6tvDW8

The regional winners get a chance to perform at BITS Goa in the finals held during our cultural fest, Waves.
Exciting prizes await the national winners :))

Link to Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DLFVYgjMC1M/?igsh=OWUwZGFzYTFyNDV4

16/08/2022

Words are powerful. Words can create illusions or inspire reality, words can temper resolve or nurture change.

Leave your impact with the art of spoken word, for The Literary and Debating Club of BITS Goa invites you to InVerse, our flagship slam poetry competition!

We are hosting regional rounds in Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and Trivandrum

Register by filling out the google form in the bio to participate in the regional qualifiers. The best participants, proceed to finals and get a chance to ply their art in our annual Cultural Fest Waves 2022 at BITS Goa. The national winners will be rewarded handsomely with fabulous cash prizes

We look forward to seeing you at InVerse 2022!

Rulebok: https://tinyurl.com/274su83y

Reg link for Bangalore: https://forms.gle/wAn68ZdFUC6QxCEG6

Reg link for Pune:
https://forms.gle/DnpugtgGBPXVpGiD7

Mumbai:
https://forms.gle/qdiBooXMovSCL5H17

Trivandrum:
https://forms.gle/JZhaDy4CJcrELSrLA

13/10/2021

Greetings from The LDC!

We’re very excited to be back hosting InVerse as a part of this year’s Waves (13th - 14th November). InVerse is our annual slam poetry competition, and due to the ongoing pandemic, we will be conducting it online. We are now accepting video entries not exceeding a length of three minutes along with the written version of the piece, to aid in judging and/or subtitling the video if required. The competition will be conducted in two stages, with a preliminary round and a live finals during Waves.

The specific instructions to register and submit entries, as well as the judging criteria are attached below. This page is always open to any queries or questions you may have as well. We look forward to seeing everyone’s submissions and we wish you the best of luck!

Drive with the registration details and rules -
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LOlvKo4utFWUPW-WkieEpIxrdyzZz5YH

Submission link -
https://forms.gle/roYpNKSBkbPtdV69A

23/01/2021

We're happy to announce the winners of our writing contest - Campfire Tales!
We'd also like to give a special mention to Shaurya Tandon, whose piece narrowly misses out, but still made for great reading.
Congratulations to the winners!
To check out their entries here - https://bp-gc.in/campfiretales

30/12/2020

Greetings from the Literary and Debating Club!

Tell a tale, build a backstory, construct a conflict, sketch a setting and let your imagination run wild in our pre-induction writing contest: “Campfire Tales”.

In the images of this post are all the prompts. The first prompt is a picture, based on which you can write a story or a poem. The second is a list of characters with a brief description of their personalities, quirks and appearances. If you choose to use the second prompt, try to include as many of the characters as possible within your story.

We understand that your mid-semester exams are starting soon, and as such we’re accepting entries until 12th January. There is no word limit, nor a limit on the number of entries. We will be putting up the best entries on our page, and winners get a direct pass to the final round of inductions! We look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Mail your submissions to [email protected]

For any queries, feel free to contact :
Raghav Mangalapalli - 6362189981
Harsha Vishak - 9819259908

27/06/2020

Hey everyone, thank you so much for participating in the summer writing event.

We're proud to announce the winners. Aoishi Chakrabarti bagged first place and Sagarika Seshagiri was judged to be the runner up.
We'd also like to give special mentions to Lakshya Singh and Shambhavi Sumedha for their amazing entries.

We're attaching the best entries in the links below (do give them a read!)

Here's Aoishi's -https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YCCzBSu9YtxdQ1EJs-5ws6SAgXbVfoxb/view?usp=sharing

and here's Sagarika's -
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bn6PM1LKHPQLCYH0xmFw5-svy-ITr0Ck/view?usp=sharing

Our thanks to our former Literary Head Anhad for judging the contest.

12/06/2020

Greetings!

Given that most of us are stuck at home, we thought it might be fun to channel our thoughts and creativity into a piece of writing. The LDC presents the Summer Writing Contest, open to anyone who wants to participate.

Given in the post is a picture prompt, which is intended to serve as inspiration. Obviously, the image is open to multiple interpretations, so feel free to be creative. All entries must be based on the prompt, though there is no restriction on the kind of entry. They can be short stories, poems, essays or anything that strikes you as interesting.

The contest ends on the 20th June, and all entries have to be emailed to [email protected] in a PDF/Doc format.

The winners will be announced on Facebook and Instagram, so keep checking in!

We're really excited to see the kind of pieces we get.

For any further queries, feel free to contact the numbers mentioned in the posters or message this page directly.

Submissions email : [email protected]

02/06/2020

We are proud to share our achievements for the second semester of the 2019-20 calendar year. We had the opportunity to participate in multiple debate tournaments, and owing to the pandemic, multiple online tournaments as well. Here are some of the highlights:

Our novices proved themselves by doing extremely well at the COEP Parliamentary Debate, held at The College of Engineering, Pune. Anirudh Srivastava and Bhargav Kulkarni were able to reach the novice semi-finals, and the team consisting of Pranav Goyal and Abhijeet Anil Kumar were part of the novice grand finals. First timers Yashee Sinha and Aoishi Chakrabarti were able to break as adjudicators.

At the same tournament, Aditya Sunkara and Suhas Prasanna reached the open finals and Yash Chaturvedi was the third best speaker overall.

At the ILS Parliamentary Debate held in Pune, our team consisting of Aditya Sunkara, Yash Chaturvedi and Suhas Prasanna reached the Semi Finals,while Anirudh Srivastava broke as an adjudicator.

The ongoing pandemic saw many tournaments cancelled, which gave us the opportunity to participate at multiple online tournaments, including international ones.

Yash Chaturvedi and Suhas Prasanna were able to reach the Quarterfinals at Berlin IV (Germany). At the Ullens Online Debating Championship (Nepal), Yash was the best adjudicator. Suhas was the best speaker at the IIT-Bombay ProAm Debate Tournament, and was also a finalist along with Raghav Mangalapalli and Abhijit Vadavalli from NALSAR.

At the inaugural Inter-BITS Parliamentary Tournament, BITS Goa bagged all the four grand finals spots and the tournament was won by Suhas Prasanna and Aniket Agarwal. BITS Goa was also able to bag the top 5 speaker spots, with Yash Chaturvedi bagging the best speaker prize.

Shoutout to Abhijit Vadavalli, our former debate head, who was invited to adjudicate at ILS PD, AODC, SSE PD and at the VIT Round Robin. He was also a Core Adjudicator at the Inter BITS tournament.

Here is the complete list of our achievements :

INDIAN TOURNAMENTS

COEP PD:
Aditya Sunkara, Suhas Prasanna - Finalists.
Yash Chaturvedi (cross with Abhijit, NALSAR) - Quarterfinalist and third best speaker overall.
Pranav Goyal, Abhijeet Anil Kumar - Novice Finalists
Anirudh Srivastava, Bhargav Kulkarni - Novice Semifinalists.
Yashee Sinha, Aoishi Chakrabarti - Breaking Adjudicators.

ILS PD:
Yash Chaturvedi, Suhas Prasanna, Aditya Sunkara - Semifinalists
Anirudh Srivastava - Breaking Adjudicator (Novice Semifinals Panellist)

IIT BHU PD:
Suhas Prasanna – Breaking Adjudicator (Finals Panellist)

IIT Bombay ProAm:
Suhas Prasanna, Raghav Mangalapalli (cross with Abhijit, NALSAR) – Finalists
Yash Chaturvedi – Invited Adjudicator
Suhas Prasanna - Best Speaker.

India Debate Open:
Suhas Prasanna (cross with Abhijit, NALSAR) – Quarterfinalists
Aditya Sunkara (cross with Sashank, VIT Vellore) - Quarterfinalists
Aniket Agarwal – Breaking Adjudicator (Quarterfinals Panellist)

SSE PD:
Yash Chaturvedi, Suhas Prasanna, Aditya Sunkara - Semifinalists
Yash Chaturvedi - Second Best Speaker

INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENTS

Berlin IV (Germany):
Suhas Prasanna, Yash Chaturvedi - Quarterfinalists

Ullens Online Debating Championship (Nepal):
Yash Chaturvedi – Best Adjudicator (Finals Chair)

BDC Digital Discourse (Bangladesh):
Yash Chaturvedi – Breaking Adjudicator (Finals Panellist)

Asia Online Debating Championship:
Suhas Prasanna - Breaking Adjudicator (High School Finals Panellist)

INTER-BITS

Inter BITS PD 2020:
Aniket Agarwal, Suhas Prasanna - Winners
Raghav Mangalapalli, Anirudh - Finalists
Yash Chaturvedi, Vidhi Rai - Finalists
Harsha Vardhana Vishak, Abhijeet Anil Kumar - Finalists

Yash Chaturvedi - Best Speaker
Vidhi Rai - Second Best Speaker
Raghav Mangalapalli - Third Best Speaker
Suhas Prasanna - Fourth Best Speaker
Anirudh Srivatsava - Fifth Best Speaker

24/04/2020

Hey guys it's that time again.

We are handing over the club to your new Core for 2020-21!

Here is your new LDC Core:

Coordinator: Raghav Mangalapalli
Sub-coordinator: Harsha Vishak

Core members:

Aastha Bhargava
Anirudh Srivastava
Aoishi Chakrabarti
Bhargav Kulkarni
Pranav Goyal
Yashee Sinha

Congrats guys, and best of luck!

Signing off,

Kirtikar, Phadnis, Sunkara, Vidhi, Aniket, Eeshan, Athreya, Keyur, Gowtham, Kopal, Oindrila, Sonwane, Sulaksh.

[P.S. Take good care of it please :') ]

21/02/2020

[EDIT: Registrations have now closed.]

Some people are just a little more skeptical-- they won't accept everything at face value. Their inquisitive minds must fight to know why and be right. Are you one of them?

If so, then welcome to the BITS Debating League, presented to you by the LDC, where one and all are welcome to prove their mettle and stake a claim for the BDL trophy. It'll take a strong challenger to make it through fierce debates and stand victorious.

Don't worry about debating experience-- if you can make a point, you can earn a point. Register now through the link below. We hope to see you soon!

https://forms.gle/5raJyu5wmqJnLBiN8

29/10/2019

Our debating society has always been about getting together the most ardent and talented debaters from BITS Goa and giving them a platform to perfect the craft or even simply enjoy the hobby. Here’s a look at all our speakers who made the college proud by representing BITS Goa at tournaments across the country this semester and securing some spectacular finishes at the end of it all.

Our second-year team of Vidhi Rai and Oindrila Ghosh finished winners in the novice category of the SLS Pune PD in their first tournament as debaters. Stalwarts of the debating society, Yash Chaturvedi and Suhas Prasanna, impressed yet again by recording consecutive finals appearances in the MSRMPD and NALSAR IV. Both of them were adjudged joint fourth-best speakers at MSRMPD and Yash placed in the top 10 at NALSAR IV. The duo followed these up with a quarterfinals finish at the recently concluded IIT Bombay PD. Huge shoutout to our ex-Debate Head Abhijit who was deemed the best internal adjudicator at NALSAR IV; we're proud of you.

However, the semester is not over yet with buzzing excitement for Contention: BITS Goa’s annual debate tournament happening this weekend. We hope to see y’all there!

30/08/2019

PSA

We are inducting.

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Vasco Da Gama
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Website

http://linktr.ee/LDC_25

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