Shri Ram DF (17th) 2023

1. Round 1In areas with chronic teacher shortages, THW outsource teacher hiring and management to private agenciesPractise this motion
2. Round 1THR student wings of political parties in Delhi University.Practise this motion
3. Round 1THBT schools in India should adopt a major shift away from memorization-based exams (involving repetition of facts, formulas etc.) towards application-based exams (involving critical thinking, problem-solving etc.) for students till Grade 10.Practise this motion
4. Round 2THBT criminal justice policy should be outsourced to technocrats instead of elected representatives.Practise this motion
5. Round 2For crimes with low prosecution and conviction rates (e.g. sexual assault, domestic violence or membership of criminal gangs), THW lower the burden of proof from "beyond reasonable doubt" to "on the balance of probabilities"Practise this motion
6. Round 2THBT the International Criminal Court should abolish its practice of complementarityPractise this motion
7. Round 3THO the rise of large private ed-tech firms in India (Byju’s, Unacademy etc.)Practise this motion
8. Round 3THO the norm of company founders remaining in key C-suite roles (Eg: CEO, CFO, CTO) in the company after its IPO.Practise this motion
9. Round 3THR the narrative that selling your start-up is considered a successPractise this motion
10. Round 4TH regrets the rise of pop feminismPractise this motion
11. Round 4TH, as a progressive female candidate, would not use conventional gender roles (e.g. marketing oneself as a mother or a wife) as a tactic in political campaigns.Practise this motion
12. Round 4This House, as a WGM in a position of power, will choose to give preferential treatment to WGMs in their workplace at the expense of cis men.Practise this motion
13. Round 5THBT India should adopt a two-child policy.Practise this motion
14. Round 5In failing cities, THW allow corporations to buy autonomous control over social and economic policy for a period of up to 99 yearsPractise this motion
15. Round 5THW cut government and parliament members' wages and pension funds if they run fiscal deficits beyond the limits set by economists.Practise this motion
16. Open Quarter FinalsTHO the rising trend of onshoring/nearshoring in global manufacturingPractise this motion
17. Open Quarter FinalsTHBT policymakers in developed economies should prioritize achieving degrowth as a central policy objective.Practise this motion
18. Open Quarter FinalsTHW ban debt monetization by governmentsPractise this motion
19. Open Semi-FinalsTHBT movements that aim to advance Dalit rights should advocate and support conversions en-masse to popular religions outside of Hinduism (e.g. Islam, Christianity)Practise this motion
20. Open Semi-FinalsTH, as the contemporary Dalit movement in Maharashtra, will condemn the legacy of Namdeo Dhasal.Practise this motion
21. Open Semi-FinalsTHBT Dalit historians should emphasise the contributions of Dalit leaders to their own community (eg: Babasaheb demanding public drinking water sources open to all and right for all castes to enter temples) as opposed to their contributions to events considered historically significant (eg: Babasaheb's contribution to Indian Constitution).Practise this motion
22. Open Grand FinalsTHR the popular shift towards generalist professions (eg: management consultants/ business analysts, graduate management trainee) as opposed to specialist roles (digital marketing associate, valuation/M&A analyst).Practise this motion
23. Novice SemifinalsTHBT, in times of economic crisis, it is legitimate for governments and central banks to strategically withhold information that may damage market confidencePractise this motion
24. Novice SemifinalsTHO minimum support prices in agriculture in India.Practise this motion
25. Novice SemifinalsThis House would temporarily and significantly relax minimum labour standards in times of unusually high unemployment, including workplace health and safety standards, minimum wage, working hours restrictions etcPractise this motion
26. Novice FinalsThis house, as leaders of marginalised minority groups, would urge their respective communities to partake in greater social integration at the expense of sustaining unique cultural attributes.Practise this motion

1. Round 1This house regrets the glorification of revolutions (for example: the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, colonial independence movements) in history textbooksPractise this motion
2. Round 1This house would allocate scholarships and financial aid exclusively on the basis of financial needPractise this motion
3. Round 1This house would only allow university admission on the basis of standardized testing, as opposed to non-quantitative methods (e.g. essays, alumni interviews)Practise this motion
4. Round 2This house believes that environmental movements should refuse funding from companies that have engaged in greenwashingPractise this motion
5. Round 2This house would impose a sin tax on the consumption of meatPractise this motion
6. Round 2This house, as the environmental movement, would prioritise advocating for the return of land rights to indigenous people as their primary environmental protection strategyPractise this motion
7. Round 3This house opposes the business practice of planned obsolescencePractise this motion
8. Round 3This house would rank all charities based on their effectiveness and give tax breaks accordinglyPractise this motion
9. Round 3This house believes that developing countries should privatise their State-Owned Enterprises (such as airlines, railway utility companies)Practise this motion
10. Round 4This house believes that the European Union should continue the enlargement process in the Western BalkansPractise this motion
11. Round 4This house opposes an expansionist NATOPractise this motion
12. Round 4This house regrets the use of religious rhetoric and narratives in the rallying of support for refugees affected by humanitarian crisesPractise this motion
13. Round 5This house would weigh one's vote inversely proportional to the size of the population of their socio-cultural group (i.e. the smaller the size of the population, the more the weight of the vote)Practise this motion
14. Round 5In functioning democracies with one dominant political party, this house prefers opposition parties to predominantly campaign on the basis of moral character (e.g. integrity, transparency, corruption) rather than predominantly on specific issues and policies (e.g. unemployment, education, the environment).Practise this motion
15. Round 5This house would give permanent residents the right to vote in general electionsPractise this motion
16. Novice SemifinalsThis house prefers to be an averagely intelligent person to a geniusPractise this motion
17. Novice SemifinalsThis house, as an individual, prefers believing that they can single handedly change the world over believing that they are just one pawn in the grand scheme of thingsPractise this motion
18. Novice SemifinalsThis house prefers a world with a dominant norm of not expressing strong emotionsPractise this motion
19. QuarterfinalsThis house prefers a world in which humanity chooses voluntary human extinction over a world where humanity chooses continued existence.Practise this motion
20. QuarterfinalsThis house prefers a world where the possession of wealth is seen as shamefulPractise this motion
21. QuarterfinalsThis house would choose to stay in the "Protected Place"Practise this motion
22. Novice FinalsIn multi-party states with a singular strong dominant party, this house believes that opposition parties should actively support protest movementsPractise this motion
23. Novice FinalsThis house regrets the ideological dominance of the left in social movementsPractise this motion
24. Novice FinalsThis house believes that feminist groups should actively recruit male spokespeoplePractise this motion
25. SemifinalsThis house believes that social movements should reject the glorification of political violence.Practise this motion
26. SemifinalsThis house supports minority activists actively working to desanitise the legacies of political revolutionaries/their movement heroes in public discourse or advocacyPractise this motion
27. SemifinalsThis house believes that extremist sects within broader social justice movements do more harm than goodPractise this motion
28. Grand FinalGiven the technology, this house would erase society's memory and evidence of the criminal past of former convicts after their release from prisonPractise this motion
29. Grand FinalThis house would replace "real world" prison incarceration with simulated incarceration, for people not sentenced to a life sentencePractise this motion
30. Grand FinalThis house believes that the state should be liable to pay damages to victims of crimes committed by parolees on probationPractise this motion

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