Declamation contests held at PU

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh March 25

The Department of English and Cultural Studies, PU, organised the Avinash Chander Bali Memorial and Krishan Kishore Grover Goodwill Contests here today.

Twenty-two persons from various colleges affiliated to the university participated in the contest. Participants spoke for three to five minutes on varied topics such as ‘Is it Ideal to be politically correct’, ‘India needs many Bangalores’, ‘Is Tinder the new Shaadi.com?’ and ‘Gurgaon to Gurugram: What is in a Name?’

Sheenam Dhingra from the English Department won the first position. Rashmi Sharma, research scholar at the department, and Surner Singh from UILS tied for the second position. Jasleen Virk from PGGCG won the third prize.

The Krishan Kishore Grover Goodwill Contest commenced with 21 participants from different colleges. Participated spoke on the topics such as ‘Degree in the frying pan’, ‘Night without Moon’, ‘How high is Punjab and farmers: The wretched of the Earth’. First position was won by Damini Puri from Dev Samaj College for Women, while Saniya Sehgal from MCM-DAV stood second. Rashmi Sharma, research scholar from the English Department and Daanish Kaur from MCM-DAV tied for the third prize.