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Our Alums

amrithavarshinivenkatesh_isdsteam — Amrithavarshini Venkatesh

aniroodhravikumar_isdsalum — Aniroodh Ravikumar

arjunvignesh_isdsteam — Arjun Vignesh

chaitanyakediyal_isdsalum — Chaitanya Kediyal

chethanavenkataraghavan_isdsalum — Chethana Venkataraghavan

isdc2022_dhruva — Dhruva Bhat

dhananjayashok_isdsalum — Dhananjay Ashok

hemanthchakravarthy_isdsalum — Hemanth Chakravarthy

karthiktadepalli_isdsalum — Karthik Tadepalli

padmapriyagovindrajan_isdsalum — Padmapriya Govindarajan

rajalakshminatarajan1_isdsalum — Rajalakshmi Natarajan

shriya_isdsteam — Shriya Suriyanarayanan

siddarth_isdsteam — Siddarth Shrikanth

sithararasheed_isdsalum — Sithara Rasheed

tejaswinikrishnaprasad_isdsalum — Tejaswini Krishnaprasad

Alumni Testimonials

Debate has made me humble about what I can believe – it’s shown me that there is much more to uncover on both sides of a question than I have thought about, and it’s helped me break out of those shallows.

Karthik Tadepalli, Student, University of Pennsylvania, USA

…debate does make smarter thinkers, interviewees or college papers. But, far more importantly, it makes empathetic, aware, and just better humans.

Hemanth Chakravarthy, Student, Harvard University, USA

… debating as an activity has helped me become better at expressing myself and critically assessing problems. These are skills that have had immense value since they’re transferable to my academic pursuits as well.

Chaitanya Kediyal, Student, University of Oxford, UK

Debating as an activity changed the way I saw the world around me. I learned how to ask the right questions (be it in politics or in personal life) in a way that has helped me truly understand my surroundings.

Dhananjay Ashok, Student, University of Toronto, Canada

…only when you’re forced to think about issues like LGBT rights or how a war in the South China Sea affects the rest of the world, you learn to connect facts and logic all into one beautiful speech…

Raghav Anand, University of California, Berkeley

I was fourteen when I was first introduced to debating by ISDS and the love of knowledge and debating that the training and experience gave me is still an important part of who I am.

Padmapriya Govindarajan, PhD Student, Media, Culture and Communication, NYU Steinhardt

Debating genuinely changed my life. It has forced me to challenge my assumptions about the world…and myself – who I am, how hard I can work and what I can achieve if I push myself.

Dhruva Bhat, Rhodes Scholar

amrithavarshini

In my 8 years of debating, both as a debater and a coach, I’ve come to watch the lives of young people transform. It is a beautiful maturation that I wish every child in this country will one day have access to.

Amrithavarshini Venkatesh, Executive Director, ISDS

Debating is fun and rewarding while you’re at it, and international debating leaves you with a wonderful network of friends from across the world.

Siddarth Shrikanth, MBA Student, Stanford Graduate School of Business

About Us

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