The Raman Effect

The Intercrap Club's inter school debate was today. While I chose to stay clear, which turned out to be quite a wise desicion, other poor souls were trapped in the Blossoms (Yes, it was held in Blossoms Block, not the AVH) Basement, for the better part of three hours. Even the debaters themselves were bored to death, as one quite frequently found them lolling about outside.

Yes, three hours, hearing 34 speakers present their views, which of course, they had just dug off the net a few days before, because no sane human can possibly have thought about this topic in the normal course of inquiry, and discourse.
Ah, the topic. Tapoed from a Political Science textbook, because Raman doesn't really have any ideas of his own, it was "India should change its polity (yes, thats a word, surprisingly) from a parlimentary to a presidential system.

To gain a little idea of just how insanely silly and undebatable this is, one simply has to point out that not even Barkha Dutt, who has possibly picked the most inane topics to shout about, has chosen to pick this one.

But I digress. After the better part of three hours, the results were announced. To add insult to an already pathetic event, Modern School Barakhamba Road walked off with best speaker, and best team. This is a school that hasn't won anything, except of course for cricket matches, for the last five years. How wonderful that they break their streak in DPS R.K.Puram.

What was also amusing is that not a single member of Intercrap possesed the skills for handling a computer, so they had to use Maanick (referenced as Sir Altitude) and Sid Sinha, (referenced as Tweety Boy) to man the projector and comp.

What is unfortunate is that Aranyaka and Arjun, from MIS, were present for the whole thing. They won't let me forget it.
They want to loan me for the Columban, by the way. Well, I am not a hired gun, and Hum Do Hamare do comes first.

Wouldn't want to have an affair now, would I?