The National Law Institute University (NLIU) Debating Society has come up with an initiative called ‘Talk of the Town’. The first session was highly successful with close to 1000 people watching it live on Facebook.
The session also saw questions being asked by individuals from places as far as Kolkata, Punjab, Mumbai and Orissa. Himanshu Dixit, a student of NLIU said, “It is a great initiative to get connected with the different corners of the world and share knowledge.”The society is headed by Convenor Iravati Singh and Debate Secretary Syamantak Sen. It is the first such initiative in India taken by the students of NLIU Bhopal. It is meant to discuss socially relevant problems of our times and find solutions to them, through deliberations.
It is being done through video conferencing and broadcasted on Facebook live so that law and non law students across India can watch the discussions.
The viewers also have an option of sending their questions to the speakers through comments. The first session discussed the plight of Kashmir during this lockdown, relating to lack of high speed internet access granted by the Government, and had Devansh Srivastava, Samar Singh, Himanshu Dixit, Jeezan Riaz, Tejas Hinder and Vinay Patil as speakers. The discussion was in the form of a moderated discussion with Shashwat Joshi acting as the moderator. In the next step, any meaningful solutions that will be developed through these deliberations will be compiled and sent to authorities in the form of a suggestion.